VietNamNet Bridge – “India and Sri Lanka have chosen white lotus as their national flower so Vietnam can take pink lotus as its national flower. This flower is appropriate for our standards,” said Vi ...

Vietnam has a wide variety of lotuses, some with scores of petals in layers and others growing two to a stalk. Tinh De is the name of a variety of lotus in Trau Quy, Gia Lam District, Hanoi. It is one ...

Vietnam has many large lotus fields in the provinces of Ha Nam, Haiphong, Thua Thien-Hue, and Dong Thap amongst others. However, I choose to use only the West Lake lotus to infuse my tea due to its ...

HANOI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Vietnamese and foreign people, mostly women were sitting on small boats or walking on bamboo bridges in the middle of a big pond full of pink lotus flowers in ...

Vietnam is home to some of the most breathtaking lotus ponds, where these sacred flowers bloom in full glory. Symbolizing purity, resilience, and beauty, lotus flowers hold a deep cultural ...

Vietnamese tea artiste Hoang Anh Suong, who recently hosted a tea meditation session for Gates and his girlfriend Paula Hurd on Ban Co mountain peak, said most of his guests were impressed with lotus ...

Vietnam's lotus gardens are capitalising on an increasingly popular source of revenue. In midsummer when the flowers bloom, young and old flock to the gardens to have their pictures taken.

To give thanks, the king had a temple built in the shape of a lotus flower. Like a lot of the monuments in Hanoi, it's been recently restored, having been burned by the French in 1954.