Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoi An and Ha Long in Vietnam are listed in the
Top 25 Destinations in Asia and receive the TripAdvisor Travelers’
Choice: Asia Destination Awards in 2013.
A ceremony to honour the
Top 25 Destinations in Asia of TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel
site, will be held in Singapore on June 18.
The fifth annual awards recognise 412 outstanding destinations in 38 markets across the globe.
The
Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards honour top travel spots worldwide
based on millions of valuable reviews and opinions from TripAdvisor
travellers.
Award winners were determined based on the
popularity of destinations, taking into account travellers’ favourites
and most highly rated places.
Of the Top 25 Destinations in
Asia, Hanoi ranks 14th ; Ho Chi Minh City, 15th; Hoi An in
central Quang Nam province, 17th; and Ha Long in northern Quang
Ninh province, 25th.
TripAdvisor writes on its web “The
charming Vietnamese capital has aged well, preserving the Old Quarter,
monuments and colonial architecture, while making room for modern
developments alongside. Hanoi may have shrugged off several former
names, including Thang Long, or “ascending dragon,” but it hasn’t
forgotten its past, as sites such as Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and Hoa Lo
Prison attest. Lakes, parks, shady boulevards and more than 600 temples
and pagodas add to the appeal of this city, which is easily explored by
taxi.”
It describes Ho Chi Minh City as “Vietnam’s bustling
largest city sets the cultural and economic pace for the country”; and
Hoi An as “the city on the central Vietnamese coast is a well-preserved
example of the important Southeast Asian trading port it was from the
15th-19th centuries”. It encourages travellers to visit Ha Long Bay “for
an up-close look at its amazing limestone islands, rock formations and
caves”.-VNA