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“Quang Nam – The Heritage Itinerary” Festival was first held in 2003 and then every 2 years to honor specific cultural valuables and advertise Quang Nam’s tourism products. This big provincial cultural-tourism event includes a variety of interesting activities taking place mainly at popular tourist destinations such as Hoi An, My Son, Cham island, Phu Ninh lake and handicraft villages. …

About 2 decades ago, French photographer Bruno Barbey traveled to many destinations in Vietnam. Wherever he came, he told a story about unique cultural characteristics of that place by his photography language. Born in 1941, Bruno Barbey is a Moroccan-born French photographer. During more than 40 year career, he traveled throughout the world to photograph, particularly war photographs. In 1959, …

Me Linh commune, Me Linh District, Hanoi is the hometown of the Trung Sisters (Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, two national heroines), and where they claimed to be kingdoms and established capital after defeating the Chinese invaders in early AD (40-43). To memorize the big devotion of the Trung Sisters, on the 6th of lunar month, the local peple organize …

Quang noodles is known as the identity of Quang Nam’s cuisine.  Nowadays, Quang noodles is served at many restaurants across the country. It goes with Quang Nam people to everywhere as a friend and exists in “native village” party of Quang nam people who live far away from their native land. Similar to other Vietnamese noodle soup, the main ingredient …

Banh nam is specific dish in Hue city which being modified to vegetarian food on the 1st and 15th lunar month. In terms of form, vegetarian banh nam is also as little as normal banh nam. It  is wrapped in banana leaves with smooth rice flour of egg colour and beautiful red filling inside. Instead of shrimp, filling of vegetarian …