Vietnamese visa application form

When you enter Vietnam, you have to submit The Entry and exit form to the Immigration Officer. It is an important document as approval letter to get visa stamp. Since March 1, 2015, a new one that was renamed into Vietnamese visa application form has replaced the old entry and exit form. As such, the old form is currently invalid. Therefore, in case you received the old form for getting Vietnam visa on arrival at the airport from any travel agent, please ignore it, download the new version, fill it out and bring it together with you upon departure for Vietnam.

Vietnam visa on arrival for Chinese passport holder

From 2014, Chinese passport holders are permitted go out of their country with visa on arrival.

Before, Chinese citizens cannot boarding if your passport don't have visa of the country they will come. However, from January 2014 China Government allowed Chinese use visa on arrival to enter to another countries.

Visa on arrival is bringing to you more convenient and cheap than traditional way. All things to do are fill the application form that established on website www.evisavietnam.org, make your payment and received your approval letter via email.

Then you have to print your approval letter with you to the airport and show at the Airlines Office Desk when boarding the plane.

Your arrival can be one of four Vietnam International Airport (Noi Bai, Tan Son Nhat, Da Nang or Cam Ranh), you will present this letter, your passport, 2 passport size photos and some cash for visa stamp. You will have Vietnam visa in your passport.

Vietnam is a top destination on Google search

In 10 tourist destinations in 2013, Vietnam ranks eighth in the choice of New Zealand. Hanoi is also in the top destinations that New Zealand citizens most searched in Vietnam.

Annual Ranking of Google - has just published a list of the top that the most searched destination in the world by 2013. The rankings have two lists: one is top destinations countries that people in some countries most searched. The second is top tourist destinations in the country.

In Australia, most people want to go to Disneyland, then Dubai, China, London, Malaysia, Koh Samui, Phuket, Cambodia, Antarctica and Mecca.

For New Zealand tourists, their most searched destinations were Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Sydney, Bali, Mexico, Brisbane, Vietnam, New Caledonia and London.

For the Indians, where they want to go the most is Macau, Malpes, Mauritius, Bali, Boston, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Bangkok, Philippines.

People in the United Arab countries chosen London is one of their most favorite. The next destinations are Singapore, Madrid, Barcelona, Thailand, Doha, Sydney, Cannes and Paris.

British love to visit Rome, New York, Amsterdam, Palma, Magaluf, Bangkok, Sydney, Bruges, Venice and Mauritius.

Mexico is the most searched Americans for wedding in 2014. The next destinations are the Bahamas, Kauai, Caribbean, Jamaica, Italy, Las Vegas, Florida, Costa Rica and Bermuda.

New Zealand, Cancun, Malpes, Bali, Thailand, Belize, St. Lucia, Tahiti, Caribbean and Croatia are the most honeymoon places.

Top destinations in the country, the Japanese chosen Disneyland as the most searched for their place. Then  Studio International Japanese , Tokyo DisneySea, Sky Tree, Isejingu, Tokyo Dome, Fujikyuu Highland, Huis Ten Bosch, Izumo Taisha and Ooedo Hot Springs.

When arrive to Malaysia, visitors should not miss to visit the 10 points: Genting Highlands, Langkawi, Gold Coast Morib, Pulau Perhentian, Penang, Pulau Tioman, Port Dickson, Melaka, Kuching and Pulau Redang.

Ten most searched destinations in the Philippines: Sky Ranch Tagaytay, Movenpick Resort Cebu, Tubbataha Reef, Pico de Loro, Tugawe Cove Resort, Island Potipot, Amana Water Park, Misibis Bay, Nuvali, Laiya resorts.

Ten places to be the most searched in Thailand: Koh Lahn, ASIATIQUE, Siam Park, Koh Chang resort Hua Hin Resort, Samed Island, Dream World Theme Park, Pattya, Similan and Chiang Rai.

Hangzhou is the most search destination that the tourists want to come. Then the provinces as Suzhou, Jiǔzhàigōu Xiàn, Wũzhèn, Beijing, Yunnan, Tibet, Hong Kong, Sha Wũzhènnghai, Taiwan are the next choose.

Top five tea specialties of Vietnam

The Vietnam Record Organisation  heralded the list of 50 gift specialties chosen by localities, tourism agencies, domestic and foreign tourists. Top five tea specialties as part of the list.

1. Thai Nguyen tea: Thai Nguyen Province is a cradle of Vietnamese tea. Tan Cuong tea is the most famous tea in Thai Nguyen, which incredibly delicious taste can bewitch any drinkers. Bitter is the first feel when you try the first sip of a cup of hot Tan Cuong tea but then it will turns out to be a sweet until lastly

2. Cao Bang province is known by bitter tea of Thach An and Ha Lang districts. The tea gains for the treatment of cold and throat inflammations, diarrhoea, and other ailments. It also bring benefit in case cholesterol level, blood tension, stress, infections and weight troubles.

3. Vang tea: Vang trees cultivated in Cam Lo and La Vang, central Quang Tri Province. Vang tea is a reputed medicine for those suffering from digestion disorder and rheumatism. Additionally it is very cool for postpartum women.

4. Bao Loc tea: It is celebrity tea for tourists who on route to Da Lat, passing Bao Loc Town in Lam Dong Province with extensive green tea fields. You can easy to drink it in tea shop on this way

5. San Tuyet tea: Living at an altitude of a thousand meters, covered with clouds all year round, Suoi Giang (Van Chan District, northern mountainous Yen Bai Province) is the place where has the oldest tea in Vietnam. San Tuyet Suoi Giang tea have bigger, thicker and darker green leaves than the tea elsewhere, on the leaf surface covered with a layer of fuzz as snow. Therefore, people called Shan Tuyet tea. San Tuyet tea has a very good and cool taste.

Tea is one of the Vietnamese quintessential beverage. Climatic conditions and soil in each region have created one special tea. To choose which type is best tea, you have to be a best taster.

Happy Vietnamese Lunar New Year!

We would like to inform you that the closing time for Vietnam New Year is from 27 Jan, 2014 to 5 Feb, 2014. 

However we still arrange Vietnam Visa on arrival. When you apply Vietnam Visa with the date of arrival in one of to these days, your case will be set on Off-Working case. And the fee for this case is higher than normal. We will process and send the approval letter for Vietnam Visa to you after 1-4 hours (at the latest) after your application done. Any question,  please feel free to contact us (info@evisavietnam.org)

Vietnamese New Year

As Chinese New Year, Tet is the popular reputable name the Vietnamese New Year (Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Đán). It happens |within the first day's the 1st month in the Lunar calendar. This usually equals last January or early February around the Gregorian calendar. In 2014 Tet are going to be on January 31.

The time are symbolized by 12 zodiac animals: rat, buffalo, tiger, cat, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. These animals turn through 12-year periods. Each animal carries a a number of strong points and flaws likely shown to communicate to any body born into their year.

Tet carries a vital meaning to each and every Vietnamese. On this occasion is chance for all an extra shot on their hometownmeet up with family, seeing relatives and creating a good stress - sparetime after having a busy-working year. If you possess probability to visit Vietnam during Tet holiday, be sure you feel happy moments of Vietnamese

Preparations for Tet begin four weeks ago. Every new year can be a chance for those to commence anew and grow more prosperous than we were looking at over the last year.

Many families refurbish their houses from the weeks prior to Tet, creating all the more busy towards already active streets of Vietnam. When a} house isn’t renovated it can be leastways completely cleaned. New garments are ordered to mean a fresh change, bring blessed for all

There always certain many different types of food that can come to get preferred around Tet, even so the most favored that are banh Tet, banh Chung and banh Day. They are contains rice with meat or bean fillings tightly wrapped inside of a leaf, and are also by far the most essential traditional Tet foods.

Obtain Vietnam visa on arrival Services easily

If you need to get Vietnamese visa, visa on arrival is one of the greatest means for you to apply online as you move by plane. You never need to deal with somewhat limitless hassles and stretching procedures with no extra expense s as well. Other than basically legitimate, it is supported by Vietnamese Immigration Department. You simply demand to make few tips with a visa service for Vietnam by applying online. Simply by the four steps which you require for application process, it takes two business days only with an exclusion of urgent times where equal a half of day is plenty for the achievement of your work. In addition to complete the application form for visa, you demand to pay service fee for receiving the approval letter and you lastly obtain your visa on arrival. The fundamental and the main thing which is necessary is type the application form with all the individual points because this form is mailed beforehand.

Next you need to pay service fee and after doing so; you will receive confirmation that your payment make successfully. The service fee is usually paid through quality credit cards with the Gate2shop payment gate preference. Payment can as well be done using VisaCard, MasterCard, or Paypal. At long last all your details straight goes through Vietnam Immigration Department in order to attain  approval letter at the same time. You will be alerted through the email that your visa approval letter is delivered after a duration of two working days.

Afterwards to be able to attain Visa for Vietnam, you need to carry to the arrival airport in Vietnam after its printout. Visa service receives the letter of approval mailed by the Vietnam Immigration Department as you enter the airport.

Despite the fact that the approval letter is in the paper but its quickly approved, outstanding to the fundamental fact that Immigration Department directly tracks screens and checks your application.

In the end of all you must to take the visa stamped in the minute. In order to have your visa stamped on your passport, you simply write the entry form along with fixing the pictures and at last paying the stamping fee to the officer at Immigration. The fees differ with the length of time of your visit. You will find several websites where you can the foremost applicable, refreshed and genuine information at the comfort of your occasion and destination. These websites will offer you an accomplish summary concerning every single difficulties of yours so getting you at relieve. Visa for Vietnam come to be very convenient to acquire and the uncomplicated process that has been mentioned can pass up difficulties of acquiring the visa.

Dalat Flower Festival 2013

The fifth Dalat Flower Festival happening until 5th January 2014 in Dalat dreaming city, Lam Dong province of Vietnam
Dalat is referred to as “The town of thousands flowers”, with the cool weather conditions all seasons, Dalat weather is wonderful for planting flowers besides doing travel business. Dalat city has 4,000 hectares for planting flowers. Dalat flowers are not only provided for Vietnam buyers but also exported to overseas markets. Dalat has many varieties of flowers such as Daisy, Rose, Mimosa, Forget-me-not, Carnation, Pensee, Gladiolus, Begonia, Orchid, Snapdragon, Purple Flamboyant…

Tet Trung Thu - Festival of children

Full Moon Night

Tet Trung Thu, or Mid- Autumn Festival honours the arrival of the full moon and is celebrated with round shaped moon cakes given as offerings to the Gods. Tet Trung Thu comes once a year, and this year it's celebrated on Thursday (September 19). The moon is at its fullest, showering its bright light onto the earth. Gentle breezes blow, coloured leaves fall from the trees and then dance to the music of the cool blowing winds; all of this beneath the evening's bright sky. The scene makes Westerners think of a holiday where children dress in costumes asking for candy with the sound of Trick or Treat resounding in the air. In Vietnam, as well as other Asian countries, this rime of year and especially the Mid- Autumn Festival are one of the most popular family holidays. The meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival has been transformed over time. Originally it was the time for farmers to celebrate the end of the summer harvest. Today the festival is meant mostly for kids and usually features unicorn dancing and lantern processions. People enjoy special cakes made for the occasion (moon cakes) and seasonal fruits, as moon watching becomes a favourite evening activity.

 Luong Nhu Hoc Street - District 5

According to "Vietnam Phong tuc" (Vietnamese Customs, published by Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House in 1990), in a Vietnamese folk tale parents were working so hard to prepare for the harvest that they left the children playing by them selves. To make up for time lost, the parents used the Mid-Autumn Festival as an opportunity to express their love for and appreciation of their children. This tradition has continued through to the present day. Several daw before this special occasion, Vietnamese families plan activities around their children. Parents buy them lanterns so that they can participate in a candlelit lantern procession at dawn.
To get a taste of the local festival, visitors can come to streets such as Hang Ma in Hanoi, Luong Nhu Hoc in District 5, HCMC, and Tran Hung Dao in Hue. During the festival, the streets are usually full of toys for the occasion and packed with people shopping, watching and playing.
Every year when the full moon festival approaches, Hang Ma in Hanoi begins to turn bright red with lanterns,
On the night of the full moon, the whole street turns into a playground lit with red light beaming out from lanterns of all shapes and sizes. Masks, drums, paper flutes and toys are stacked everywhere and children and adults alike jostle each other as they shop.
One important event before and during the Mid-Autumn Festival are the lion dances. The dances are performed by both non-professional children's groups and trained professionals. According to southern Vietnamese custom, lion dance groups perform on the streets then go to houses asking for permission to perform for them. If accepted by the host, the 'lion' will come in and start dancing as a wish for luck and for*tune and the host gives them lucky money in return. Meanwhile, in the northern parts of Vietnam, the dragon dance is a re-enact- ment of the earth and sky duality, the yin and yang of the world. The Lord Earth, called 'Ong Dia' in Vietnamese, is the dancer who dances around the dragon, urging it on. Ong Dia has a very round, happy smiling moon-face. He represents the wealth or fullness of the earth. The Dragon theatre' plays on the streets to give onlookers good luck and happiness.
There is singing and shouting by both children and adults as the moon climbs to its highest point. Parents watch as masked children parade happily in the streets banging their drums.
LEGEND HAS IT...
There's a story about how the Moon Lady, or On Hang, ascended to the moon. A man named Cuoi found a lucky tree that had special healing powers. Because it was sacred, people were forbidden to urinate at the foot of the tree. Unfortunately, Cuoi's wife forgot the rule and relieved herself on the tree. One day, while her husband was sitting on a tree branch, the tree started to grow and grow: Eventually, it reached the moon, and Cuoi lived there for the rest of his life. Every year, during the Mid-autumn Festival, children light lanterns and join a procession to show Cuoi the way back to Earth.
There is also another legend relating to the festival, as Vietnamese Customs writes: there was a carp that wanted to become a dragon. The carp worked and worked and eventually transformed itself into a dragon. This is the Story behind the mythical symbol, "Ca hoa Rong". Parents use diis story to encourage their children to work hard so that they can become whatever they want to be.

GIFTS OF MOON CAKES

"Buy these pigs", a shop assistant at a moon cake shop in Hang Dieu in Hanoi suggested while showing me an ornamental style baked green bean cake with an image of pigs nursing piglets at its centre, as it represents family bonding. "Or these twin carp fish", she added, 'they are die symbol of prosperity; all children love to have them.' Every Full Moon Festival; I have to buy at least four boxes of moon cakes: one as an offering to the ancestors on the altar, one to give to my parents-in-law; one for the boss, and the other for my child's teacher.
There is a 'bieu' (giving) tradition of moon cakes for clients, friends and family at least two to four weeks before Tet Trung Thu. For this reason, a month before the festival, bakeries around the city will be bursting with moon cakes. From the gargantuan cakes up to 1.2kg in a boxed gift set of four to the small, petite and highly ornamental boxed cakes of six. It is traditional that one offers a box of these special cakes .to someone that you want to please or owe a favour, like your landlord or the local police. Two basic types exist, from 'banh nuong' (baked moon cakes) and 'banh deo' (white soft variety), with sweet fillings from durian, taro, coconut, sour sop, green tea with lotus seeds, to connoisseur couplings that weigh in at 300gr. Although the moon cakes have a similar shape and weight of a McDonald's hamburger, do not bite or try to eat them by the mouth, they are too sweet! The time- honoured etiquette for eating moon cakes is to cut one into quarters or eighths, take one segment and daintily bite while sipping on piping hot tea. In addition to cakes, fruit is plentiful during this time of year, especially watermelon and grapefruit. Grapefruit sections can be transformed into animal shapes like a rabbit and make great gifts too.
Traditions aside, the full moon festival is now commonly known in Vietnam as Tet Thieu Nhi (Children's festival) and devoted to children. Go out and buy several moon cakes then take your children to the toy street of Hang Ma in Hanoi's Old Quarter. It'll feel like Christmas, revelling with friends, joyfully clutching bright red bags and dancing in the streets. Tet Trung Thu is a rime to eat, drink, and be thankful.

Apply visa vietnam and attend Tet Trung Thu at: http://www.evisavietnam.org/evisa-form

Information about Vietnam Visa

Though Vietnamese tourist visas are generally valid for thirty days, it is currently easy to get a visa extension in most major tourist destinations, at tourist offices or tour operators.
Now visitors from following countries - Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden are exempted from requiring visas when they enter, exit or stay in Vietnam for less than 15 days, Myanmar do not need Vietnam visa for 14 days visit.
Whether you need a business visa or a tourist visa, the process is generally the same. The most common way to get a visa is to contact the Vietnamese Embassy or Consulate office in your country of residence or in your travels before entering Vietnam.
For a tourist visa, you will need to submit:
1) Entry permit form
2) To photos (usually 4cm x 6cm or 3 cm x 4 cm)
3) Your original passport
4) Visa fee
The form and the fee can vary by country, so please check directly the Vietnamese embassy or consulate to which you are applying.
A business visa usually also requires a letter of support from your sponsor agency or company in Vietnam.
In person, the process usually takes 2-3 days, and by mail, the process usually takes 2-3 weeks, depending on the service you use, although times can vary considerably by embassy or consulate. If you are mailing, please note that you need to make arrangements to have your passport with visa returned to you.
For assistance, you can process your visa through a travel agency or tour company in Vietnam, with an additional fee, although this is not usually necessary unless you need visa on arrival services.

Easy getting visa on arrival vietnam at http://www.evisavietnam.org/