Buon Ma Thuot or Ban Mê Thuột, is the capital city of Dak Lak Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Its population is approximately 300,000. The city is the largest in Vietnam's Central Highlands region and is famous as the regional "capital of coffee". Treasures of intangible cultural Highlands Speaking of ...

Hung Temple is called generalized population temples to worship the Hung Kings and losses on Nghia Linh Mountain King, in association with the Hung Temple festival is held at such place annually on March 10th lunar month. Currently, according to the scientific literature published most of the foundation agreed Hung ...

Philosophical influences on Vietnamese cuisine The principle of yin and yang is applied in composing a meal in a way that provides a balance that is beneficial for the body. While contrasting texture and flavors are important, the principal primarily concerns the "heating" and "cooling" properties of ingredients. Certain dishes are ...

Kinship plays an important role in Vietnam. Unlike Western culture‘s emphasis on individualism, Eastern culture values the roles of family and clanship. Comparing with Eastern cultures, Chinese culture values family over clan while Vietnamese culture values clan over family. Each clan has a patriarch, clan altar, and death commemorations attended ...

  Construction of the first tunnels actually started under the French rule and spanned 25 years. The network is extensive, over 200 km of galleries in Cu Chi district alone. Other branches reach as far away as the Cambodian border. The network, built several stories deep, included living quarters, specially designed ...

Óc Eo (from the Khmer "O'keo", meaning "Glass canal") is an archaeological site in Thoại Sơn District in southern An Giang Province, Vietnam, in the Mekong River Delta region of Vietnam. It is also one of the modern day communes of Vietnam. Óc Eo may have been a busy port ...

Music Vietnamese music varies slightly in the three regions: Bắc or North, Trung or Central, and Nam or South. Northern classical music is Vietnam's oldest and is traditionally more formal. Vietnamese classical music can be traced to the Mongol invasions, when the Vietnamese captured a Chinese opera troupe. Central classical music ...