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Malaysian golfer Nicholass Chee Yung Fung has brought home the trophy of the first-ever Vietnam Amateur Open Tournament at the Dalat Palace Golf Club in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the five Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) provinces will organise the first international festival titled the Space of Gong Culture of the Central Highlands in March 2009.
HCMC-based tour operator Ben Thanh Tourist has introduced a 15-day, 14-night tour of Xuan Thuy, Cuc Phuong or Nam Cat Tien national forests to cater to the needs of nature enthusiasts.
The hilly city of Da lat welcomed almost 219,000 visitors in the first three weeks of this month, increasing by 12% on the year-earlier period, according to Da Lat statistics.
The Central Highlands Gong Festival will be held in Pleiku, Gia Lai Province in March, according to the Institute of Art and Culture of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
A four-day caravan entitled “Discovering South Central Coast's destinations” that travels across Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan and Lam Dong starts today till June 15. The trip is aimed at promoting the three provincial destinations of the South Central Coast.
A cavalcade of 60 cars arrived in central Binh Thuan Province on June 12 to promote tourism in the province and call for investment in the sector.
National Road 27, which links the two highland provinces Lam Dong and Dak Lak, will be upgraded into an overland tourist road from Da lat to Laos and Thailand by the end of 2009, said Mr. Hua Van Tuan, director of the Lam Dong Provincial Department of Transport.
Documents have been submitted to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Educational Organisation (UNESCO) to ask for recognition of Cat Tien National Park as a world natural heritage site.
A senior Cambodian government official says Cambodia wants to cooperate in tourism with Vietnam’s Central Highlands Lam Dong province. Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon said he supports tourism cooperation and joint venture plans between Lam Dong province and Cambodian localities during a meeting with a Lam Dong province delegation in Phnom Penh on May 27.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has allowed local groups to make a plan to develop a big resort city project worth more than US$1bil in Dankia-Suoi Vang in the province's Dalat city
A delegation of leaders of Lam Dong People’s Committee and Da lat city the Centre for Investment and Promotion of Trade and Tourism and representatives of 9 enterprises in the province are on a working visit to study the Cambodian market.
On the occasion of the United Nations Vesak Celebrations 2008, Linh Phuoc pagoda in the resort city of Da lat Lam Dong province was added to the Vietnam Record Book as the pagoda with the highest bell tower in Vietnam.
Thac Voi (Elephant Waterfall), a nationally-rated landscape, was sold at a dirty price, VND3 billion ($187,000).
355 projects of provinces and cities with tourism potential like Lao cai Thua Thien-Hue, Lam Dong, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Quang Nam (Hoi An), An Giang, Kien Giang, Ho chi minh city were introduced to major global investors and international funding groups at a conference and exhibition called Vietnam Tourism and Properties Opportunities.
An old copper bell about 300 years old has been found on the campus of Sung Phuc pagoda in Tu Minh commune, Hai Duong city by the pagoda’s Buddhist monks and nuns.
355 projects of provinces and cities with tourism potential like Lao cai Thua Thien-Hue, Lam Dong, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Quang Nam (Hoi An), An Giang, Kien Giang, Ho chi minh city were introduced to major global investors and international funding groups at a conference and exhibition called Vietnam Tourism and Properties Opportunities.
A collection of close to 1,000 unique artifacts from the holy land of Cat Tien in Central Highlands Lam Dong province are currently on show in Ho chi minh city .
The Da Gos Gongs festival will open in Madagui tourist area of Cat Tien-Lam Dong national park from April 26-May 1 to mark the Liberation Day (April 30) and International Labour Day (May 1).
The development of ecological tourism is considered a helpful way to protect natural resources in national parks and reserves in Vietnam , according to a seminar held in Da lat central highlands Lam Dong province, on April 9.