베트남 여행지 추천Since the Vietnamese government fully resumed the entry of foreign tourists on March 15, these tourist attractions are once again receiving attention from people around the world. Vietnamese media VnExpress introduced ’10 Vietnamese travel destinations that caught the world’s attention this year’ based on places featured in overseas media.
◆ Red River Delta
The New York Times (NYT) in the United States included the Red River Delta in its ‘52 World Travel Destinations Recommended for 2022’ in January.
NYT said, “The Red River Delta is the birthplace of the traditional folk song Quan Ho of Bac Ninh Province, which was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, and Tam Chuc Temple, the largest temple in Korea with a history of over 1,000 years. He introduced it as “a place where it is.”
The Red River Delta covers an area of 15,000 ㎢, including 2 cities and 8 provinces, including the capital Hanoi, and has a population of over 23 million people.
◆ Hoi An
Booking.com, a Dutch online travel agency, analyzed 232 million traveler reviews from around the world in February and ranked the ancient capital of Quang Nam Province in the central region as one of the ’10 Most Welcoming Cities in the World’. I introduced Ian.
Hoi An, located about 30km south of Da Nang, a famous marine tourism city, attracts tourists with its old buildings along the Thu Bon River. In particular, Gochon has been designated as a pedestrian street since 2004, so tourists can quietly look around and feel the old atmosphere.
◆ Da Lat
Booking.com selected Dalat, a city in the Central Highlands, as one of the world’s 10 best places to view flowers in March.
Da Lat City, located at an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters above sea level, attracts many domestic and foreign tourists due to its cool climate all year round. In particular, it is the largest flower growing area in Korea with an annual flower production of 3 billion flowers, and a flower festival is held every year for two months starting in November.
◆ Bach Long Glass Bridge
The Bac Rong Glass Bridge, which opened in the northern province of Son La at the end of April, is 632 meters long and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest glass bridge. As this fact became known, many tourists are visiting the glass bridge to take pictures.
◆ Lan Ha Bay
The American travel magazine Thrillist selected Lan Ha Bay in northern Hai Phong City as one of the ‘most beautiful travel destinations in Southeast Asia’ last July.
Lan Ha Bay, located about a 2-hour drive from Hanoi, is an eco-tourism destination made up of about 400 large and small islands on 700,000㎡ of sea. You can get a glimpse of the culture and history of the traditional fishing village at Cai Beo, a local fishing village. It is a living museum that you can see.
In Lanha Bay, about 300 families still build houses on the sea and live in a unique way.
◆ Hanoi
Last August, CNN selected Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, as one of the world’s 12 best travel destinations in fall.
CNN introduced, “The motorcycle tour, where you can ride a motorcycle and tour the old streets dotted with old houses, French colonial-style buildings, and street vendors, is an indispensable highlight of Hanoi tourism.”
Every fall in Hanoi, you can easily see women riding bicycles through fallen leaf-covered streets or taking pictures wearing the traditional costume, ao dai.
◆ Tam Dao
Tam Dao in the northern Vinh Phuc province ranked first among the ‘world’s best tourist destinations’ selected by the ‘2022 World Travel Awards (WTA)’ last November.
Tam Dao, located 90km northeast of Hanoi, is an attractive place with a cool climate all year round and dense mountain fog. It has been a popular summer resort for French officials since the French colonial period in the 19th century. Because the buildings and hotels built in French architectural style are well preserved, it has become a weekend resort for Hanoi citizens for several years.
◆ Phu Quoc
Phu Quoc, the pearl island in Kien Giang Province, the southernmost part of Vietnam, is repeatedly listed as one of the ‘world’s best resort islands.’
Phu Quoc, with an area of 567㎢, slightly smaller than Seoul, is the largest island in Vietnam and the first island to be promoted to a city. The current population is about 180,000.
Phu Quoc is a natural eco-tourism destination with clear sea water, dense natural forests, long and fine white sand beaches, and beautiful coral reefs, and hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists visit every year.
◆ Ninh Binh Province
British magazine Time Out selected northern Ninh Binh Province as one of the ‘five most underrated travel destinations in Southeast Asia’ last November.
Ninh Binh Province has many natural wonders made up of strangely shaped rocks, so in 2016, it was used as a major filming location for the King Kong series movie ‘Kong: Skull island.’ In addition, ecological tourist attractions such as Tam Coc-Bich Dong, which belongs to Trang An Scenic Area, designated as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage, and Van Long Lagoon, which preserves pristine beauty, are famous.
◆ Sa Pa
Last November, Canadian travel magazine The Travel selected Sapa in the Northern Highlands as one of Asia’s top 10 travel destinations for enjoying winter snowscapes.
Sapa, located at the foot of the Fansipan Mountain Range, over 1,500 meters above sea level, enjoys a cool climate all year round, and especially during the winter months from December to February, it is overflowing with people looking to see ‘sub-zero weather’ and ‘snow’, a unique experience in subtropical Vietnam. .
