The South Phan Thiet Phan Thiet is a coastal town located to the east of Ho Chi Minh City. It attracts tourists due to its amazing coastline and lovely landscape. The mountains range from west to east and stretch down to the beautiful beaches. There are many great architectural sites such as towers, communal houses, pagodas, temples, shrines, and tombs. Lively cultural activities including festivals, traditional customs, dancing, and traditional music. Nha Trang Nha Trang is called Vietnam ?s Mediterranean coast due to its seven kilometre long, white, sandy beaches, several nearby islands, and is an ideal place for scuba diving and snorkelling. Visitors can also enjoy the group of five or six islands situated close to each other, set just off the coast. The largest of the islands is Hon Tre, which is located 3 km from Nha Trang. Nha Trang is not only famous for its natural landscape, but also for its heritage of the Cham culture. Da Lat Dalat, the ?city of eternal spring? or ?Little Paris?, nestles on the Lang Bian plateau. It is renowned not only for its tranquil beauty and hundreds of French colonial buildings and villas dotted through the town but also for its cool and fresh mountainous climate. This makes it a popular getaway for local honeymooners and tourists who seek a cool respite from the tropical heat. Dalat is 300 km northeast of Ho Chi Minh City and 220 km from Nha Trang. From Dalat, you can visit the nearby Lang Bian Highlands, home to several ethnic minorities and with an ideal peak for adventurers to conquer. TP Ho Chi Minh City Formerly known as Saigon, Vietnam's biggest city lies next to the Mekong delta in the south of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City is a modern city with a population of six million and the country's largest centre of trade and science. There are pagodas, where incense burns and monks pray, and artists create their masterpieces on canvas or carved wood in their workshops, puppeteers entertain children in parks and down narrow alleys seamstresses carefully create the graceful Vietnamese costume, the Ao Dai. Cu Chi Junnels - Tay Ninh The Cu Chi tunnels are located in the outer northern suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City. This renowned network of tunnels is over 250km long and became famous around the world during the Vietnam war. This was the site of years of fierce struggle and an example of the endurance of the Vietnam people. Once you visit Cu Chi you will get a feel for the conditions that the Vietnamese soldiers went trough during the war. The network of tunnels was built and used as the Vietnamese guerrillas' nearest base to Saigon during the war. It is now a major attraction for foreign tourists and Vietnamese. Further to the west is Tay Ninh, the headquarters of Cao Dai Daism, a religion very popular in the Mekong Delta area. Tourists will be amazed by the magnificent Great Temple or Holy See.

The Mekong Delta The Mekong Delta is the southernmost region of Vietnam and was formed by sediment deposited by the ?river of the Nine Dragons.? This rich land is known as Vietnam's rice bowl, producing enough food for almost the whole country. The hospitality of the local people and amazing food products including coconuts, fruit of all kinds, sugar cane and fish, make the area famous. The most popular areas to visit are: Can Tho Can Tho is located in the centre of the 11 provinces of the Mekong Delta, 170 km from Ho Chi Minh City, south of the Hau River. The river is considered the benefactor of this region, since yearly floods deposit large quantities of alluvia on the rice fields. It is wonderful to take a boat trip along the river on fine days. On the east bank is Ninh Kieu Wharf, which is well known for its beautiful location. Not too far from the wharf is a floating restaurant connected to the bank by a bridge. Visitors travel along the waterway to the floating markets to see the normal waterways life of people there. Chau Doc Chau Doc is a town closes to the Cambodia border. There are a number of floating houses (the floats are empty metal drums) which provide a convenient way for families to raise fish underneath. What makes Chau Doc interesting is its mix of communities, Khmer, Cham, and Chinese. The Cham are mostly Muslim, and live in isolated communities across the river, complete with mosques. The Sam mountain, which provides an outstanding view over the Cambodia border, has dozens of pagodas and shrines where the Chinese influence is obvious. At its base lie the Tay Anh pagoda, whose architecture is influenced by Hindu and Islamic style, and the temple of the Lady Chua Xu to whom offerings of whole roasted pigs and lavishly embroidered clothes are made.

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