TRAVELLIVE 3 - 2018

GENERAL NEWS
VIETNAM AIRLINES
Vietnam Airlines is offering
new dry snacks for Economy
passengers on domestic flights
and short international flights.
The new snacks will be served
on the Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh
City route during mid sessions
from 8.30am to 10.30am,
1.30pm to 5pm, 8pm to 5am),
and from Hanoi to Phu Quoc/
Can Tho/Nha Trang/Da Lat/
Buon Me Thuot/Quy Nhon/Tuy
Hoa/Pleiku, from Ho Chi Minh
City to Hai Phong/Vinh/Thanh
Hoa, as well as from Hanoi to
Luang Prabang (Laos)/Siem Riep
(Cambodia).
YEN TU SPRING FESTIVAL
The Yen Tu Spring Festival
kicked off on 25 Feburary or the
10th day of the Lunar New Year
at Truc Lam Yen Tu Cultural
Center, Quang Ninh Province.
The festival is an important
cultural event for Vietnamese
as visitors flocked to the festival
since dawn, and were willing to
queue up in a long line at the
cable station. Visitors can now
stay over night at the Yen Tu
Relic Site. The newly open Truc
Lam Yen Tu Cultural Center is
expected to boost tourism in
Yen Tu this year.
HANOI
The Hanoi authorities and the
Embassy of Japan in Vietnam are
together organizing a number
of cultural activities during
the Japan Cultural Exchange
Festival from March 23-26
on the occasion of the 45th
anniversary of the establishment
of Vietnam - Japan diplomatic
relations. Festival goers will
get to enjoy beautiful flowers
grown in the two countries. It is
expected that about 30 cherry
blossom trees and 10,000
cherry blossom branches as
well as bonsai trees and typical
flowers of Vietnam and Hanoi
will be displayed at the Ly Thai
To Memorial Garden.
SUN GROUP
The Sun Group has set up 5
tourist information booths
shaped like old Volkswagen
cars in Danang for visitors. The
booths are installed on the
west side of Tran Hung Dao
Street to the north side of the
Dragon Bridge, the east side of
Vo Nguyen Giap Street near
East Sea Park, the east side of
Vo Nguyen Giap Street near
Vo Nguyen Giap - Vo Van Kiet
intersection, the east side of
Vo Nguyen Giap Street near
Vo Nguyen Giap - Nguyen Van
Thoai intersection, and the east
side of Bach Dang Street to the
north of the Dragon Bridge.
The information booths are
expected to launch beginning
March 12.
2018 MOUNTAIN-EBONY
TREE FESTIVAL
The 2018 Mountain-enony
Festival will be officially
launched on March 17 in Dien
Bien Phu City, Dien Bien
Province. This is an annual
cultural event of Dien Bien
Province, which is held in the
mountain-ebony season after
the Lunar New Year. The
festival aims to promote nature,
culture, and local people to
domestic and international
visitors.
PHU QUOC
The authorities in Phu Quoc
Island, Kien Giang Province, and
the Sun Group have officially
launched the 7,900m-long cable
car that connects An Thoi
Town with Hon Thom Island
- the largest island of An Thoi
Islands. The cable car, which is
expected to promote economic
and tourism development in
the south of Phu Quoc Island,
takes visitors only 15 minutes
to travel from An Thoi to Hon
Thom instead of 30 minutes
on a speedboat. Wifi and
electric lights are available in all
cabins. Tickets for adults and
children over 130cm height
are VND500,000/person, for
children under 130cm and over
100cm VND350,000/person,
and free for children under
100cm height.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is
launching a new connecting
flight between Singapore,
Melbourne (Australia) and
Wellington (New Zealand). The
new route is part of the ongoing
restructuring of the Singapore-
Canberra-Wellington route, in
which the Canberra-Wellington
route will be terminated, and
daily flights to Canberra from
Singapore are expected to
increase instead of the current
four flights per week. The
new Singapore-Melbourne-
Wellington route will operate
4 times a week under the flight
number SQ247 starting May
3. The reverse flight is coded
SQ248. Starting May 1, SIA will
also launch a new daily flight
to Canberra via Sydney. The
flight number SQ288 will fly to
Singapore-Sydney-Canberra.
The reverse flight coded SQ288
will fly directly from Canberra
to Singapore.
FANSIPAN SKY SPRING
FESTIVAL
Fansipan Sky Spring Festival
will be held from February 24
to May 14. Visitors will get to
enjoy thousands of colorful
flowers in the rhythmic music
of H'mong musical instruments
with many folk games and
delicous highland cuisine during
the spring festival that takes
place at Sun World Fansipan
Legend.
MARRIOTT
Continuing the core value of
"Community Service", Marriott hotels in
Vietnam and Cambodia jointly support
the Operation Smile organization with
the belief that every child deserves
the opportunity of a lifetime and it all
starts with a smile. The partnership
will contribute to the organization's
fundraising and convey the mission
of Operation Smile to bring smiles
and changes to the children and
adolescents who suffer from congenital
malformations of the face and cleft
palate. For more information, please
visit: www.operationsmile.org.vn.
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DANANG
The authorities in Da Nang have recently launched a list of cultural activities to be held on the banks of Han
River in celebration of 2018. Regular activities from street dance, to b‡i chÚi singing, to folk traditional musical
performances will take place monthly on the weekends on either Tran Hung Dao Street or at the park west of
the Dragon Bridge. Many other special events such as the 2018 Danang International Fireworks Festival (from
April 30 to June 30), World Performing Arts Festival (from July 1-7), and Culinary Festival will be featured.
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