>> Hat ru the beauty of Vietnamese culture

Vietnam attracts the foreign tourists through not only the wonderful and beautiful destinations but also the beauty of the culture and the long-life tradition in Vietnam. And one of traditional music that anyone only listen once can never forget and feel the warmth and the maternal love in it. It is Hat ru (or Lullaby).


Hat ru (or Lullaby) is a part of folk songs, a type of traditional music that plays an important role in the lives of Vietnamese. It also has an essential position in the spiritual lives of Vietnamese until now.

Most of Vietnamese people were lulled with the lullabies by their mother or grandma when they were kids and sing when they become the mothers, especially in the countryside. Hat ru is regarded as a song to lull babies to sleep with the simple and gently rhythm. Vietnamese women use them to consign their fates and also express their feelings, such as homesickness, the mood of a wife missing her husband, sadness, or wishes, etc…





The song’s melody is usually gently and deep in order to lull the child slowly fall asleep, the tone seems to be a little dialogue between the mother and the baby but sometimes it is all things the mother wants to talk to the baby and the mother’s wishes about their child in the future.

The melodies of ‘Hat ru’ quite vary from regions to regions. However, Hat ru is originated from six-and-eight line popular poems following the traditional music. Lullabies usually begin with syllables à ơi, à á à à ơi.

‘Hat ru’ (or Lullaby) not only is to lull the children to sleep easily but also is the way to connect among the hearts. Although the kids cannot understand the meaning of lullabies, they can feel the warmth and sweetness of their mom or their grandma who are lulling them to sleep, and that melody will along them during their long life.

Although the habit of lulling children in Vietnam nowadays is gradually less popular than in the past, these lullabies never disappear but become an important part in each Vietnamese soul who was brought up by maternal love and sweet songs.

Nowadays, when tourism sector more and more develops, many foreigners want to come to Vietnam for traveling. Besides, many of them want to enjoy folk songs and traditional music in Vietnam. It is not enough if we do not introduce Lullabies to foreign visitors. Easily, they can enjoy the lullabies when the tourists order in the travel destinations. When they listen the lullabies, they can feel the warmth and the love of the mother sent to her child.

Foreigners coming to Vietnam now are easier than ever and apply vietnam visa is easier, too. It can be done through the online application service by getting into the website: http://getvietnamvisa.org

>> The attraction from Vietnamese ‘com lam’

Traveling in the north-west mountainous regions, tourists not only experience the picturesque landscapes but also enjoy ‘com lam’, a typical food here. It is rice, usually sticky rice in bamboo tube and used with sesame salt.


Until now, ‘com lam’ is known as unique cuisine, attracts a lot of travelers by its unforgettable flavor. Its name makes many people curious; even they have never tasted it. Why does it have the name ‘com lam’ instead of any names else? We usually have many methods to cook a dish, such as frying, baking, boiling, grilling, steaming, etc. And the reason is in Thai language, grilling means ‘lam’.





Therefore, we can understand partly how to cook ‘com lam’; rice is put in bamboo tube instead of in a pot or a cooker, after that it will be grilled until it smells pleasant. This kind of rice will keep the pure fragrance of rice blended with the flavor of bamboo.

In terms of its origin, ‘com lam’ is a unique and creative food of ethnic minorities. When they go to the forests, from one hill to another one for many days, they usually bring rice to cook everywhere for convenience. They cut down young and fresh bamboo tree to take some bamboo tubes to put rice in, wrap the tube with banana leaves or ‘dong’ leaves and burn it on fire. They can use it for some days.

It is easy and convenient to make ‘com lam’ but the most important ingredient is rice, usually upland sticky rice in the mountainous areas. The kind of rice has small, long and fragrant seeds from provinces like Hoa Binh, Lai Chau, Dien Bien and so on. Rice is compressed in a bamboo tube but not too tight in order to create distance from both sides of tube so that rice can expand regularly. When grilling, the cook should remember to turn the tube around frequently until the cover of tube is dried and it begins having the fragrant flavor.





Before enjoying it, you should use a small knife to split the black bark skillfully so that there is a thin cover left with the rice, remove all banana leaves at the both sides of tube. After that, cut the tube of sticky rice into five or seven pieces. Beside rice and bamboo tube, some cooks can add some scrapped coconut or sesame to make more delicious and strange taste. You can enjoy it with sesame salt or grilled chicken and grilled wild boar.

Nowadays when you travel to Vietnam, it is not difficult to get Vietnam visa on arrival. Along with experiencing the wonderful sceneries, you can be easy to find a lot of restaurants serving ‘com lam’ as you visit the northwestern traveling destinations.

(Source :: http://getvietnamvisa.org)

>> Advantages of getting Vietnam visa online

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>> Quick and Easy: Vietnam Visa on Arrival


Nowadays, the number of travelers to Vietnam is increasing very fast so travelling serves are necessary and important. One of them is getting visa. In reality, there are two main ways to receive visa as follows :  firstly, you can go to embassy or consulate to get visa. Secondly, you can get it through a travel organization in Vietnam. However, the second way is more convenient and perfect because there are five main reasons to support my view.






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The second reason is simple. You only follow some simple steps in each website of visa; you can get your purpose. For example, in the website http://getvietnamvisa.org you fill enough information for four steps which are instructed clearly, you can get a Vietnam visa. Four steps are to fill in the visa form, confirm and pay, get approval letter, and get your visa stamped. Generally, you can do procedures easily and simply through a website.

The third reason is safe. All information of clients is kept in a database of a travel organization you chose first and simultaneously stored in all ports of Vietnam. Besides, your visa application is submitted to Vietnam immigration department so you totally feel secure when presenting your procedures in anywhere in Vietnam. Moreover, any organization in Vietnam want to advertise their service, all information is check by an organization of Vietnam so you can believe in services which are posted through internet.

The fourth reason is quick. You do not need to spend time in embassy or consulates, you only sit and spend a few minutes before your computer. You can complete the visa application. Especially, you can check schedule of making procedures or ask any question through hotline which is written in the top or the bottom of each website. You will receive necessary and useful information fastest by professional staffs. Make sure that you can save much time when using visa online service.

Finally, getting visa online is cheap. If you get visa online, you do not pay for transportation fee, no physical meeting. In addition, It is sure that the price of visa online is not expensive than visa in embassy or consulate. If you do not believe this, you check it in Vietnam visa fee to see details. Specifically, for normal service, the visa application procedures can be processed within two (2) to three (3) business days. For urgent service, the visa application procedures can be processed within one (1) business day.

In conclusion, getting Vietnam visa online is a smart selection. There are five main benefits you can get from visa online such as common, simple, safe, quick and cheap. Therefore, why do you choose visa online when you are foreigners or oversea Vietnamese planning to visit Vietnam?

>> Nha Tho street - A daily life street in Hanoi

Both ancient and modern, the integration between the two cultural forms old make Nha Tho street that became extraordinary.

>> If you have only 24 hours in Hanoi

Hanoi has long sinuous streets, but also the small street just a few hundred meters long and always seem to contain many interesting and unique things to remember. Nha Tho (Church) street also in the list of such streets. It is known as a place that contains many interesting and special.



Church Street is always busy foreign tourists visited


Streets located not far from Hoan Kiem lake, next to Hang Hanh street. Although street no words "Hang" on the head but people still ranks Nha Tho street in the old town of Hanoi.

Short and small city, but never deserted. Here, we encounter more opposition between two very unique form of new and old culture, both conscious system Buddhist religion and Christianity. It is easy to know which is more than the contrast between two schools of Eastern and Western architecture.

Besides the classical style house float waving moss odor of time, you will easily feel the squeeze of architecture and modern Western. The luxurious cafe or fast food restaurants serving foreign guests grew close together. The idea this would lose the historic character of this famous street, but it seems that the familiar harmony between two opposite styles that make distinctions of re Church Street.



Hanoi minster is ancient and grave


Called Nha Tho street because there's Hanoi minster. The church was inaugurated on Christmas in 1887 and known for the most typical and characteristic of the art of medieval architecture with curved arches, wide, toward the top of heaven, get light. With the architecture, will certainly realize that the church was built in line with impressive Gothic architecture patterns, characteristic patterns.

This architecture has always impressed on a solemn religious space. Each year when Christmas is here again to become more vibrant than ever. The christian believer come up here to welcome a new Christmas wish good prayer for life.

It also Ba Da pagoda, also known under the name Linh Tu pagoda. Ba Da pagoda is located at 3 Nha Tho street. Today, the temple is the headquarters of the Buddhist association of Hanoi City.

Today, Nha Tho street youth also known as a place where there are many delicious and popular cuisine. The fermented pork roll fry (Vietnamese meaning: nem chua nướng) of Ms Thanh was 85-year-old . This place is always crowded at any time of day.

Do not know the shop of fermented pork roll fry appear here , the young of Ha Thanh just know that ten years living in Hanoi, they knew shop of fermented pork roll fry, and this place became gathering points often their stories with no beginning no end.

Whenever sunset falls, the area around the church has become more robust. Despite sitting nestled between small cramped seats, nobody is sad, irritable or complain. Both the bustling streets by happy laughter, conversation, the call up ... same idea as being a small Hanoi show up in your eyes ...