The North may cooler than the South and the South with lower temperature than usual. The North of Vietnam in December is in the wintertime with a low temperature, about 20oC with the bright, windy sky. The South area is returning to the sunny days, with the average temperature is 26oC with a clear sky. Vietnam’s spring season and the countryside around Hanoi is in full bloom. If you’re planning a trip up to Ninh Binh, this is the perfect time as the entire valley is tapestried with emerald rice fields and is any photographer’s dream! Ha Long Bay is especially popular during these months, where you can laze on the deck of your junk boat, surrounded by warm water and clear skies.

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5 Best Places to visit in New Year 2020 in Vietnam

Travelling to the Moc Chau Plateau

Moc Chau Plateau is a destination of cool temperature, tea hills and ethnic villages. Moc Chau pleases its visitors with its average temperature of 20 Celsius degree even in middle of summer heat. As the capital of Son La, Moc Chau lies 200km away from Hanoi, making itself the best choice for a weekend escape from hustling, busy cities. The whole landscape becomes even more vivid when the sunlight cast down on the hills, therefore visit these tea hills in summer for a great photoshoot would be a wonderful experience. The best time to see colza flowers in Moc Chau is at the end of the autumn and in the early winter. Around November and December, Moc Chau becomes very romantic scenery with the bloom of colza flowers which fully cover the entire hill with the white color.

Visiting Ha Long Bay, experience the charm of a cruise

Ha Long Bay is one of Vietnam’s biggest attractions. The vast majority of its 10 million visitors a year arrive aboard day and overnight cruises. There are peak seasons on Ha Long Bay: Asian travellers will come here from December to February for tourists from the frigid and temperate zone. Typically, Ha Long Bay attracts tourists from Europe, America and other countries experiencing cold winters. Ha Long Bay retains much of the otherworldly magic conjured up. Ha Long Bay cruises typically offer Vietnamese dishes such as spring rolls, stir-fried vegetables, fried rice, seafood, poultry, and meat dishes. A fruit platter is commonly served as dessert. Alcohol and snacks are available at additional charges.

The Perfume Pagoda near Hanoi

The Huong Pagoda, also known as Perfume Pagoda, is a vast complex of Buddhist temples and shrines built into the limestone Huong Tich caves. It is the site of a religious festival that draws large numbers of pilgrims from across Vietnam. It’s well worth taking time to stop and enjoy the view en-route to the temple as the scenery is very interesting, dotted with fruit trees including apricots and medicinal herbs grown by local farmers. Other temples to see within the complex include the Vong Temple, Thuyet Kinh Cave, and Thien Son Pagoda. Especially, if you come here in November & December, you will see the water lilies in bloom. Water lily bloom at the end of the year; hence it is not a festival season. That’s why it is very quiet and suitable for those who want to contemplate in a peaceful space.

Ban Gioc Waterfall is one of Vietnam’s magnificent natural attractions

Ban Gioc Waterfall is famous for its width as well as its splendid beauty. Ban Gioc Waterfall is the largest waterfall in Asia and the fourth largest national-bordered waterfall in the world, after Iguazu Falls, Victoria Falls, and Niagara Falls. Getting off the mainstream tourist trail and getting the off-the-beaten road, you’ll enjoy the great escape and personally marvel at the majestic waterfall. There are sections where water batters over abrupt drops and others where it flows leisurely and softly, spraying out in a relaxing mist. Ban Gioc Waterfall is open to visitors all year round as the scenery changes seasonally. In spring, the flame-red blossoms are in full bloom. In autumn, the surroundings turn in the golden carpet. In summer, the waters become stronger and violent; while the waters fall slowly during winter.

Tam Coc – Bich Dong, beautiful and easily accessible place from Hanoi.

Tam Coc – Bich Dong is considered as the most attractive and famous in Ninh Binh. Coming here, visitors will feel the charming beauty. The journey of discovery of Tam Coc begins at Dinh The Boat Station. This landscape is also known with the name “Ha Long Bay on land”. Tam Coc means three caves, including The First Cave, The Second Cave, and The Third Cave. Its beauty is a wonderfully harmonious combination between the stunning caves, the charming waterways and the talent of the human, forming an inseparable unity. Tourists to Tam Coc, Ninh Binh will actually feel the charming beauty of the waters and mountains. You will be taken along Ngo Dong River. On the two sides, there are yellow rice fields. Looking further, we will catch extraordinary stone mountains. Under the fresh blue water, countless aquatic species are fancily swimming, and storks are happily playing on the greenery grass.

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All climbers seeking a permit to climb Mount Everest will now need to disclose their full medical history, according to a set of new rules drafted by the Tourism Department.

In addition to disclosing their medical history, climbers must also submit a medical report by a certified doctor in order to obtain a permit to climb mountains in Nepal, including the world’s tallest peak.

The rules, which will come into effect from the next spring climbing season once approved, were drafted in an effort to determine that only climbers in good health attempt the high-altitude challenge, after a number of climbers died on Everest this year. Nine people died on Everest this year, the highest number of deaths during a single season in the past four years.

At least a dozen new rules are expected to be included in the amendment to the existing mountaineering regulation, according to sources at the Department of Tourism, which drafted the rules.

“As most deaths occurred due to fitness and health issues, we [the government] have come up with these strict measures,” said Mira Acharya, director at the Department of Tourism, the body responsible for issuing climbing permits. “The draft of the new rules was submitted to the Tourism Ministry last week.”

Once the Tourism Ministry approves the rules, they will be forwarded to the Cabinet for ratification.

Officials at the department said that the medical history declaration rule will allow them to determine whether a climber is fit enough to climb mountains.

“We don’t know the medical history of the climbers, but the climbers do,” said Acharya. “Based on their history, we can assess whether they can climb or not.”

Until now, climbers below the age of 16, persons with serious diseases and a criminal history were the only ones barred from climbing mountains.

“Besides these three rules, Nepal’s mountains were open for all,” said Acharya.

On December 28, 2017, the Cabinet’s Bill Committee had approved an amendment to the Mountaineering Expedition Regulation to bar double amputees and blind persons, as proposed by the Department of Tourism, in order to prevent high-altitude accidents. But in March 2018, the Supreme Court reversed the government’s ban, stating it was discriminatory.

According to the new rules, all climbers will also require mandatory insurance.

“It’s search, rescue and treatment insurance, which will allow rescues and prompt treatment if the mountaineer is ill or stuck at high altitude,” said Acharya. “The insurance will also partly cover retrieval of the body in case of death.”

Retrieving a body above the death zone, which is above 8,000 metres, can cost around $200,000 and costs to rescue people below the death zone ranges from $20,000 to $60,000, according to rescue operators, depending on the location and situation.

According to department officials, insurance coverage has been made mandatory as adventurers have been found climbing mountains with just a life insurance policy. Currently, insurance is mandatory only for climbing guides and high-altitude workers.

According to officials, they took into account the case of Kalpana Das, an Indian climber who reached the summit on May 23 this year and died while descending.

“Das was not physically fit to climb Everest right from the beginning. It also came to light that she had no other insurance coverage except her life insurance policy,” said one official at the department who did not wish to be named.

Another new rule concerns climbing experience. While the high-altitude climbing guides are already required to possess a certificate of climbing at least one mountain, climbers will now have to submit a basic mountaineering training certificate at the department to obtain a climbing permit.

However, a government panel set up to recommend measures to make climbing safer, after the May disaster on Everest, has yet to recommend an upper age limit as that could also be discriminatory and land in court, said officials.

Rules on the mobilisation of a liaison officer will also change. According to the initial draft, the government will not send individual liaison officers. “Instead, a group comprising a doctor, army and police personnel, and government officials will be mobilised on the mountain,” said the department official.

But this provision will not be implemented in the next spring climbing season, as a separate guideline will have to be prepared, according to officials.

In the wake of May’s deaths and a photo that went viral across the world, many international observers had also suggested that Nepal limit the number of permits issued or raise the permit fees. The government has decided to form a separate committee to determine a new fee to climb Everest, according to officials.

“Our objective is to manage and conserve the mountains as well as making mountain tourism commercial,” said the department official.

Government officials said that they have not come up with a policy to restrict the number of climbers on the world’s highest peak, largely due to the Visit Nepal 2020 campaign, which aims to bring in 2 million tourists next year. “We have a restriction in mind but not for next year,” said the official.

According to the department, 223 mountaineers ascended Mount Everest on May 22, setting a new record for the highest number of climbers to stand on top of the world in a single day.