Ho chi minh mekong delta tour

The tourist route between Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Den Mountain in neighboring Tay Ninh Province will reopen to visitors on Saturday, following months of closure due to COVID-19, according to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee. The decision to restore the route was announced during a meeting on epidemic prevention and control measures between various stakeholder agencies on Monday. Phan Thi Thang, vice-chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, stated during the meeting that her administration and Tay Ninh authorities have agreed to relaunch tours between Cu Chi Tunnels and Ba Den Mountain. Those who wish to participate in the tours should be vaccinated against COVID-19, have received a negative rapid antigen test, and adhere to COVID-19 prevention requirements, according to Thang. This is just an initial step toward reopening interprovincial tourist routes and the city has plans to work in coordination with several other localities to relaunch … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City – Tay Ninh tour to reopen this weekend

Ho Chi Minh City was the costliest city in Vietnam in 2018, followed by Hanoi and Da Nang, according to the most recent published Spatial cost of living indices of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Spatial cost of living indices (SCOLI) measure the relative costs of living in different regions and communities. In order to rank costs of living in different localities in Vietnam, each locality's cost was compared to that of Hanoi, considering the cost of living in the capital as 100 percent. As a result, Ho Chi Minh City’s cost of living was 101.47 percent. While the prices of most goods were quite similar between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, education seemed to be more expensive in the southern city as tuition fees of 11th graders at public schools and the fees of vocational schools were 14.46 percent higher than those in the capital city. Another significant difference was in the post and telecommunications sector where Ho Chi Minh City was 103.97 percent the … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City most expensive in Vietnam

The tourist route between Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Tay Ninh Province has been reconnected since Monday, hinting at a positive recovery for domestic tourism after months of closure due to COVID-19. Instead of hunkering down during the epidemic, tourism agencies have invested in upgrading their travel itineraries, waiting to welcome back tourists when restrictions are loosened further. First trip in months On Monday, many tourists headed to Tay Ninh Province on the first tour to leave Ho Chi Minh City in months. Departing and returning to Ho Chi Minh City on the same day, they were able to get on the cable car that went up the province’s Ba Den Mountain, visited pagodas, and experienced local delicacies. Vu Van Phu, a tourist, said the trip was a gift from his employer to staffers who complied with safety rules and maintained production during the COVID-19 outbreak that has hit Vietnam badly since late April. “After months of being stuck at home, I feel exuberant as … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City restarts tourism as COVID-19 outbreak recedes

Tuoi Tre (Youth)newspaper collaborated with Vietnamese tour operator Saigontourist to offer 5,000 bowls of pho , a Vietnamese noodle soup made of beef or chicken broth , to COVID-19 medical workers staying at the group’s 24 hotels in Ho Chi Minh City from October 13 to 15. The medical workers were sent from other provinces to assist the southern metropolis which has been hit hard since the beginning of the fourth virus wave on April 27. Many enjoyed the soup which was cooked and served on the rooftop of the Rex Hotel Saigon in District 1 while those who could not come to receive their portions in person received deliveries to their hotels. “We have to enjoy this moment as we could only have quick meals during the past month in Ho Chi Minh City,” Dr. Vi Thi Ngoc Anh from the north-central province of Nghe An, said while looking at nearby Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street. “The pho tastes really good. “I’m touched as we were taken care of. “This bowl of northern-style pho … [Read more...] about ‘Day of Pho’ offers fresh air, good meals to COVID-19 frontliners in Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam’s business hub Ho Chi Minh City will first resume interprovincial tours from November 1 before re-launching international tourism activities in early 2022, according to its plan for tourism recovery from COVID-19. The plan has been launched as the southern city and the country in general are loosening strict COVID-19 restrictions to resume socio-economic activities under ‘new normal conditions,’ a phrase the Vietnamese government uses to describe its new strategy of living safely with the coronavirus. Accordingly, the tourism recovery will follow a three-phase roadmap that requires strict compliance with epidemic prevention measures. In the first phase, which lasts from now to October 31, the city will reopen local tourism activities in “green zones”, meaning areas without known COVID-19 infection cases. People can select tours organized by travel companies or go by themselves to destinations in districts where the pandemic has been put under control. Hotels and … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to recover international tourism in early 2022

Nearly 250 students in an island commune off Ho Chi Minh City have become the first returnees to offline schooling in the southern city on Wednesday while their peers in other parts of the metropolis still stick to the online learning mode. Students in Thanh An Commune, located in Can Gio, an island district of Ho Chi Minh City, could not restrain the excitement on their way to school on Wednesday morning. They are first, second, sixth, ninth, and 12th graders at Thanh An Elementary School and Thanh An Middle - High School. At Thanh An Elementary School, teachers waited to welcome the first- and second-grade students, measure their body temperature, and have them use hand sanitizer at the school gates before instructing them to enter their classrooms in two different lanes. “I closed my stall at the market to take my child to school today,” said Tran Thi Le Xuan, whose child is a first grader. “I found online study was not feasible for my child over the past time. “I was … [Read more...] about Students in Ho Chi Minh City’s island commune return to school