SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

CAPITAL: Hanoi SURFACE: 329.560 km2 POPULATION: 79.939.014 LANGUAGES: Vietnamés (official language), English (favored more and more like second language), some speak the French, Chinese, and Khmer. ALFABETISMO: 93.7% total; 96.5% men; 91.2% women RELIGIONS: Buddhist, hoa hao, cao dai, indigenous, Muslim Christians (predominant Roman catholics, some protestants)

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

History, Vietnamese culture and people habbits.

The rich history of Vietnam, provide a lot of rituals and habbits that make of vietnamese people a very particular one and, also give them lots of architectonic structures and the traditional Pagodas. They have a very rich language, poetry, festivals and religions. One of their most popular festivals turns around rice, the base of their meals. All that festivals include fantastic and traditional clothes, very bright and colourful, a lot of meditation, believes and a clear religious part. Colombia has all that rich culture too, obviously in their own way. We have many different types of sub-cultures, natives and traditions. Representative festivals and exotic meals.

http://www.geographia.com/vietnam/

Pictures taken from:http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/, http://www.asiarecipe.com/.

Vietnam: Luscious beauty everywhere, from delicate design to technicolour sunsets.

Vietnam is a popular country because of the Hiroshima´s atomic bomb, but this country is more than war and pain. With an "S" form and almost fully delimited by rivers, Vietnam offers a really beautiful view, with huge mountains and an amazing blue sky. Also, Vietnam has very warm people, full of dreams and working for a better future. There´s no bad time to visit Vietnam, because when in many places rain the other´s has a very shinny sun and, of course, many interesting festivals in any time of the year. As we can see, Vietnam and Colombia has a lot of similar thing, both are countries with a violent history, but with a lot to show to the rest of the world, people, land, nature and beauty.




Picture taken from: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/rastrilla/Vietnam/vietnam_map.jpg