Things that climbers should learn by heart

Vietnam is one of the ideal destinations for those who love hiking. You can experience a unique adventure in jungle with incredibly pristine mountains and join strange activities of the tribe hiding behind the mountains ... However, in order to be safe, please keep in mind some following things.

1. PLEASE CLIMB WITH YOUR OWN STABILITY OF SPEED

Anyone can choose their own way to explore the hiking tour, but if you have someone to go along with your journey and they are speeding up while you fall behind, do not worry and feel inferiority. This will cause you to think about how to pass there, thinking that inadvertently cause your body to lose more strength. When starting the stamina, stop and rest until you find your own stability of speed.

2. DO NOT LEAVE THE TEAM AND WANDER ALONE. IF YOU'RE FEELING LIKE

Travelling in pair is the best way to support yourself in case you get tired or accident.

3. NEVER WEAR FLAT SHOE

When climbing, the road is sometimes slippery and loss of strength of the legs is what the flat-heeled shoes cause us.  It makes the journey more inconvenient and prone to accidents. Please choose a pair of climbing shoes which could hold your body well when climbing.

4. ALWAYS WEAR A HAT

Always keep the hat on your head. Do not leave it because when going to a new higher air pressure will be lower.  Cold air makes it difficult to breath and you may be cold quickly, which makes your health is unstable or you can give up halfway.

5. DO NOT MISS  SUNCREAM TO PREVENT INSECT

Climbing does not mean there is no sunshine when you climb. Some places with a certain height will be higher temperatures and it will make your skin rough and burnt or when low temperatures in some places such as Sa Pa, the sunscreen also work to moisturize the skin. Hint: You can bring your moisturizer if possible, because this cream can be suitable for all skin types and is used more if the weather is hot or cold.

6. CHOOSE ONE BACKPACK BAG MADE FROM WATERPROOFING MATERIALS

With tropical monsoon climate in Vietnam, it would not be hot year round. When climbing to higher areas, It has some light rain when the temperature drops. Choose your backpack or a bag with waterproof material.

You are a professional climber or mountaineering enthusiasts to discover what the most spectacular, the most beautiful, interesting, do not ignore these things, especially when coming Vietnam.

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Daisy Season in Hanoi

In the early days of winter, Hanoi weather welcomes the cold with little sunlight and some drops of fog which makes Hanoi is pretty gentle and more romantic. Winter comes; Hanoi is colored many beautiful flowers. The most beautiful flower in this season is Daisy.

Daisy flower brings the cold of winter. Seasonal flowers scattered in the hearts of those immense in winter. The white color mixed in the cold. Chrysanthemum, daisy species grows wild in innocent white between heaven and earth.  This flower is small, naive, blundering that makes so many people fascinated.

Children like the daisy. The girls more casual, drop some daisy flowers in glass close with a little water and sat watching all day. Daisy flower brings about a sense of peace, a sense of incredible clarity. English love with each petal that radiates into the wind. Meaning of Daisy Flower is a question: "Do you love me?" which make all the girls can fall in love.

On the road Nguyen Chi Thanh, Kim Ma, Thuy Khue, Thanh Thien or the heart of the old town. Each encounter, one that does not contain your last stand to look back. Alas, what color flowers so troubled heart. I immersed between the blundering, unfocused as young girls. I do not understand, these girls today still sticks to play the role as her erstwhile. Holding white daisies on hand, each petal whispered softly: "Love. No Love. Loving. No Love. Love ... "The game of her stupid, clumsy love, but lovely and clear as the main species that chamomile.

Short-morning twilight, when the moon is still sparkling on high, people invite each other to Quang Ba flower market on the roads the night cuddling flowers Au night. Flowers here have been selected the good ones. That's the beauty of Hanoi at night. What simple. What carpentry free.

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Immense water of Tra Co beach

For Quang Ninh, people will surely think of Ha Long Bay, Tuan Chau, Bai Chay, Co To Island or Quan Lan. It would completely an omission without mention of Tra Co beach. The beach is considered as one of the most beautiful beaches in the north and also the first beach that you encountered the first point of the letter S on the Vietnam map.

Tra Co is located in the far northeast of the country, located in Mong Cai city, Quang Ninh province.  It is adjacent to the Chinese border; Topography of Tra Co is a long promontory running northeast - southwest. Southeast side overlooking to the Gulf of Tonkin with long sandy beaches. The other side overlooking to the mainland. Vietnam record was recorded Tra Co beach is the longest Vietnam, with a length of 17 km, an area of about 170 ha curved annular, I could possibly hold thousands of tourists. Tra Co beach is the outer edge of an island of natural compensation due to coastal line form. The coast is from 3-4 meters high and sand dunes, with the village and hamlet residents who mostly live on farming and fishing. Residents of this small peninsula in Do Son migrants here to live and settle.

To get to Tra Co, you can take a bus from Hanoi or private car. Tra Co is a favorable place for trade. Dubbed "the most romantic beaches in Vietnam" and is the only beach located near frontier, Tra Co annually attracts many tourists. Tra Co beach scene is unlike anything we've seen in Ha Long, Do Son or the other beaches; it has the air in the deep blue sea takes on the central coast and the lofty mountain ranges of the North sea. The unique blend was created for Tra Co a painted marine beauty and poetic lyricism. Rarely does a marine region, we again felt a peaceful space, a natural beauty and an idyllic blue waters and mangrove ecosystem diversity.

Another interesting thing is that people have never seen the presence of "commercial beach". Restaurants and hawker are limited. Enjoy the fresh seafood is very simple; you can buy right on the coast from the fishing boats of the fishermen. The juveniles will not have to buy the same time, the processing to her but even boiling, steaming are simply delicious. Here you should try the dishes made from “Sam”- Tra Co seafood specialties, so it brings the special taste. The other seafood dishes are also very attractive, such as shrimp, crab ...

Tra Co beach attracts the most tourists in the summer. Tra Co festival is one of the most famous festivals for coastal fishermen in the North.
 
If you've been to a lot of beautiful beaches in the country, then you should  try to experience Tra Co beach once day, you can plan to stay more than 1 day because there are so many interesting things in the wilderness waters, food, people… all paint a picture of a gentle simple but beautiful and full of life.

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