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Tet, the Lunar new year, is the most awaited time of the year. It brings about changes in everyday pace, much hope for a new start after tough times, a bit calm to the bursting flow of life and above all else, joy to the warm-hearted people of Vietnam.

The new breed of tourists these days do not just come, ask for what they want and leave. Many want to make the experience fulfilling to both the hosts and the guests.

Most people know Pho as the most famous dish in Vietnamese culinary art. There are lots of people who fall in love with Pho right at the first time they taste it.

In Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, the rain season often brings flood and turns life up-side-down, haunting people with the dreaded images of stuck vehicles and street fishermen.

Some people have a taste for unique exotic things. Some stop at collecting baseball caps from over the globe. Some hunt down traditional clothing. All the while, some find the stories of a foreign partner exciting and her original beauty unrivaled.

Who could expect one of the most dreaded things about one-thousand-years-old Hanoi is that one could get hit by a bus at any moment?

Vietnamese have a long history of learning languages.

The Vietnamese are deeply vested in the belief of the Lunar Calendar. Despite most activities these days go on with the Gregorian one, people still keep track of the dates the old way. Many holidays and festivals are held on the occasions of the moon.

For a country that has 4000 years of history, Vietnam reasonably has a very rich oral tradition.

If the locals have to pick their favorite drinks, coffee sure comes rocking steady all-day long at the first place. But beer certainly can hold firm its 2nd place as king of the night

The gym nowadays has become much more than just about working out.

Photoblogging has emerged since 2000s together with the new surge in user-generated- content of the internet. Here at VietnamOnline, we cherish the visual effect of photos as a means to deliver the beauty of Vietnam and beyond.

Leave Vietnam for merely half a year and sometimes one will just be shocked by how many things have managed to change in such little time.

Vietnam is HOT but there are ways to cure, and to prevent. Heed these witty advice from Vietnam Online editor and enjoy your dream holidays!

Bill Hayton did not fail to stress times and times again the importance of rice to Vietnamese people in his new piece "Vietnam - The Rising Dragon". Now we question, can rice maintains its superiority, in the face of "pho" and - well, KFC - , in the setting of a fast changing Vietnamese culture and lifestyle today?

Being a country that counts people of 54 different ethnic groups as its citizens, Vietnam is no stranger to the idea of expatriates living within its border. From the open-sea oil-drilling platforms in Bach Long Vi to the rocky mountains of Ha Giang, one will find that foreigners today shape up an important aspect of the local culture.

"I have only 5 days to spare for Vietnam. Now ... Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City?" This puzzle has hassled numerous visitors to Vietnam, many of whom write to us hoping to get some advice.