Sunday, 20:20, 17/01/2021
“Mot thoang Viet Nam” (Vietnam at a Glance), a tourism park recreating the beauty of Vietnam’s thousand-year-old traditional culture located on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, was reopened on January 16 after 10 years.
Every section of the 20-ha facillity in Cu Chi district tells its own story, said Director Tran Thi Tuyet Nga, citing the Hill of Eggs as an example, saying it tells a folk legend of Lac Long Quan and his wife Au Co who gave birth to a brood of a hundred eggs from which a hundred of children hatched and became the ancestors of all Vietnamese people.
Radical re-think after Covid hits Rangitīkei tourist business River Valley Lodge
21 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Brian Megaw s business offers rafting tours and accommodation on the Rangitīkei River. Photo / Supplied
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
The young backpackers that were the bread and butter of a Rangitīkei adventure and accommodation business are just not there this year. Last financial year guests spent nearly 11,000 nights in Brian Megaw s 80-bed River Valley Lodge at Pukeokahu, in remote hill country near Taihape. It was busy, and sometimes stressful.
This year Megaw predicts there will be about 2000 bed nights spent at the lodge.
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A Townsend s solitaire is shown. (Scot Stewart photo)
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” John Geddes
It has been uncommonly warm in northern Michigan this winter. Always strange when the biggest snows come in October! A snowstorm, or even a big snow shower, will jolt life back into winter in the Upper Peninsula. The lack of true winter has made for many strange sights across the U.P. the past two and a half months, with many tree buds already showing some green, but especially for bird life reluctant to leave the mild climate that settled into the area this fall and early winter.
Visitors flock to Bay of Plenty now but accommodation providers fearful of future
11 Jan, 2021 05:15 PM
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The Bay is proving a popular place for a break but with no international tourists concerns continue to run high. Photo / Getty Images
The Bay is proving a popular place for a break but with no international tourists concerns continue to run high. Photo / Getty Images
Last-minute bookings and walk-ins off the street are emerging trends Bay of Plenty accommodation providers have noticed this summer in the absence of international tourists. The sector is holding its own as Kiwis holiday in Tauranga, but in the wider Bay, industry players admit the future is hazy and it will be tough from next month onwards.