Hat-making village Phu Cam (also Phuoc Vinh) lies on the southern bank of the An Cuu River in the centre of the former imperial capital of Hue. It’s a village famous for its traditional way of making conical hats for hundreds of years. Phu Cam-made hats look graceful, soft and thin as silk. Hue landscapes [...]

The caffeine capital of Vietnam, the biggest buzz you’ll get in Buon Ma Thuot (also known as Ban Me Thuot) is from the beans. There’s not a lot to do here, but it makes for a good base to explore Yok Don National Park and several stunning waterfalls in the vicinity. Before WWII, this was [...]

T wo parallel and loving boats With dragon bows and phoenix sterns Double rows of nails I carry five boy-lovers per boat And ten per pair. But, let you be reproved, you ingrate! Profiting from me, and forgetting me What am I? The above riddle refers to a pair of clogs, footwear imbued with symbolic [...]

The presence of the dead, the behaviour of the living, and an influence on the future – the many generations of the Vietnamese family. Ancestor worship was introduced into Vietnam by the Chinese during their long occupation of the country that began 200 years before the birth of Christ. Since then, it has been fully [...]

In the past, building a house was considered one of the three most important events in Vietnamese life. These were purchasing a buffalo, looking for a wife, and building a house. So building an own house is very important to Vietnamese. It even shows his position in social structure. Vietnamese who die without ever has [...]