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Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism: An Ideal Destination

With diverse activities and spaces, the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism promises to offer your family a memorable summer vacation. This experience gives children a profound and exciting opportunity to learn about and experience the cultures of Vietnam's ethnic groups.

Various activities for Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day

Various activities for Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day Thai ethnic women in the northwestern province of Dien Bien perform their traditional dance. This cultural activity will be featured during the Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day  A variety of cultural activities will be held at the...

President joins ethnic groups at Hanoi spring festival

President joins ethnic groups at Hanoi spring festival President Tran Dai Quang joined 200 representatives of 21 ethnic groups from around the country for the opening ceremony of the annual spring festival at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay district, Hanoi on...

Activities to celebrate Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day

Activities to celebrate Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day Activities celebrating Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day (April 19) will be held from Wednesday to Sunday at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay town on the outskirts of Hanoi.  Patriarchs,...

Activities to celebrate Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day

Activities to celebrate Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day A wide variety of unique cultural activities will be held to celebrate the Vietnam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day. (Credit:Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism) A wide variety of unique cultural activities will be held...

Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism to reopen in July

Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism to reopen in July The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism will reopen in July after a period of closure due to complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and...

The Yanomami Indians of Brazil. The most special and strange tribe that still exists in the world

  ‘Yanomami’ means ‘Human Being’   National Geographic – November 22, 2016 Spectacular new images of an uncontacted indigenous village in Brazil are stirring pleas from tribal leaders and rights advocates for government intervention to protect the settlement from...

The Himba of Namibia are caught between tradition and modernity. This is a tribe that needs help

Image captionHimba women apply red-coloured ochre on their skin as a daily beautification ritual Having survived genocide by German troops in the 1900s, Namibia’s Himba people are now facing a bigger threat to their way of life – encroaching modernity. Little has changed in Omuhoro...

Anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay and a tribe hostile to outsiders.

Anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay floated coconuts to the Sentinelese in an unusually friendly exchange with a tribe hostile to outsiders. The recent death of an American missionary on North Sentinel Island has put the remote island in the Bay of Bengal, officially off-limits to most...

This Amazon tribe lives without knowing the outside world. Let’s explore these mysteries together. Ricardo Stuckert’s astounding images reminded me of my experiences meeting isolated indigenous people.

Ricardo Stuckert’s astounding images reminded me of my experiences meeting isolated indigenous people. With living space diminishing, their future is in peril   ‘The tribe portrayed in Stuckert’s pictures continue to appear to want to shun the outside world.’ Photograph: Ricardo Stuckert...

Kayapo people

Leader of the Kayapó nation, Akiaboro Kayapó Total population: 8,638 (2010) Regions with significant populations: Brazil (Mato Grosso, Pará) Languages: Kayapo language The Kayapo people are indigenous peoples in Brazil who inhabit a vast area spreading across the states of Pará and Mato...

5 interesting facts about the Himba

  All over Africa there are tribes who respect and live according to the traditions of their ancestors. Examples include the Maasai tribe in Kenya, the Pygmies in Congo or the many tribes that call the Dogon Valley in Mali their home. However, the one that intrigues me the most is the Himba tribe...

Original Russian landscape: Stunning photographs captivate visitors.

Original Russian landscape: Stunning photographs captivate visitors. This is the ideal place to visit and travel at any time of the year

The 50 Most Beautiful Places in Asia

Asia is the largest continent both in terms of sheer size (17,139,445 square miles) and population (more than four billion), which means there’s literally no shortage of things to see: think rice paddies in Bali, monasteries in Bhutan, bridges in Malaysia, and water palaces in...

Amazon River

Amazon River, Portuguese Rio Amazonas, Spanish Río Amazonas, also called Río Marañón and Rio Solimões, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of the river—as...

Amazon tribe that faced annihilation prepares for ‘war’

  A Waiapi family poses for a photograph at the Waiapi Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s Amapa State on Oct. 14. Tzako Waiapi remembers perfectly the day he first stumbled across white men while hunting in the Amazon rain forest: within months nearly everyone he knew had died of a mysterious...

Waiapi tribe of the Amazon forced to defend their homes from miners

The tribe still uses bows and arrows for hunting. – Photos: AFP   Waiapi tribe of the Amazon forced to defend their homes from miners 9th-century Brazilian library looks straight out of Harry Potter They appear silently, seemingly from nowhere: a dozen figures, naked except for bright red...

Remote Amazon tribe tries to straddle two worlds

Waiapi boys play football in the Manilha village. The Waiapi are one of the most traditional tribes in Brazil’s Amazon, but modern life is getting closer – and the forest dwellers are learning how to navigate between two worlds Transfixed, tribal villagers in Brazil’s Amazon...

There are about 305 tribes living in Brazil today

There are about 305 tribes living in Brazil today, totaling around 900,000 people, or 0.4% of Brazil’s population. The government has recognized 690 territories for its indigenous population, covering about 13% of Brazil’s land mass. Nearly all of this reserved land (98.5%) lies in the Amazon....

The Korowai Tribe – Cannibals of Papua New Guinea

Korowai Tribe Treetop Dwellers who feed on Their Fellow Tribesmen The Korowai (or Kolufo) are a tribe of nearly 3,000 people living in West Papua in the Indonesian Province of Papua. The tribe was unaware of the existence of western civilization until 1970 when anthropologists embarked on a journey...

The Color of Earth and Blood: Namibia’s Himba

The Color of Earth and Blood: Namibia’s Himba The Color of Earth and Blood: Namibia’s Himba tribe with its distinctive cultural traditions is attracting worldwide attention and interest NAMIBIA has a stark beauty in its land, which stretches from the Skeleton Coast to the arid...

US newspaper names Ha Long Bay among world’s 35 most beautiful natural wonders

US-based newspaper Business Insider has made a list of 35 most beautiful natural wonders around the world, in which Viet Nam’s Ha Long Bay claimed a place. According to the news website, the beauty of Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh makes it one of Viet Nam’s top tourist...