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Nhân Dân says Tân Thành commune will hold the Bắc Lệ communal temple festival on 27–29 October. Tomorrow is the opening rite, with no hour printed. The art program is expected at 20:00 on the 28th. No ticket is in the notice.

From 22 to 26 October, the first Vietnam Calligraphy Festival runs at Co Mat Vien, 33 Tong Duy Tan, Phu Xuan ward. The opening is Thursday morning. A ticket price is not in the report.

Tuổi Trẻ and Znews both stop passenger vehicles on the road into Lô Lô Chải through 28 February 2027. One dates the scheme from 15 October. The other quotes the chairman from 17 October. The flag-tower stop is weekends only.

From 10 October, 13 bus routes are diverted for construction of Metro Line 2 between Ben Thanh and Tham Luong. The changes sit on Cach Mang Thang Tam, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, and the streets around Tao Dan and Bay Hien.

The province’s July plan runs the International Tea Festival from 30 October to 7 November and expects the opening at 19:30 on Friday. A 13 October ministry page puts the international tea forum on 31 October. The July plan puts that forum on 1 November. No ticket is printed.

A press briefing on 20 October runs the gong and wild-sunflower festival from 30 October to 8 November. The Biển Hồ chain, including the opening, is 30 October to 1 November. No opening hour and no ticket are printed.

The national forecast issued at 09:00 puts 50–100 mm, locally over 200 mm, on the stretch from Hà Tĩnh to Đà Nẵng from this evening through tomorrow night. Thanh Niên at 07:32 still prints a higher total. No sight is named as closed.

The 12th buckwheat festival is set for 20:00 tonight at Youth Square in Đồng Văn. A morning report prints the evening and no clock. Sunday also stops passenger vehicles on the road up to the Lũng Cú flag tower. No ticket is printed.

A 6 October government notice times a Cham Roya recreation at Hanoi’s ethnic village for 09:00–10:30 today, and a Cham–Khmer exchange for 14:30–16:00. VietnamPlus prints the morning and no clock. No ticket is printed.

Ninh Binh’s tourism center schedules the Co Le Pagoda festival from 21 through 25 October. Saturday sits inside that run. The closing rites are on Sunday. No hour or ticket for today is printed.

Hung Yen’s autumn festival at Keo Pagoda runs 19 through 24 October 2026. Saturday is the last date in that plan. The only printed clock is the opening, which was on the 19th.

The Hanoi Heritage Tourism Journey platform launched on 18 October at Kim Ngan Communal House. It holds 28 sites, chosen from more than 100 that a research team surveyed, and it is read from QR codes on the buildings.

Hanoi’s culture department and VTV both put a new lakeside walk up from 8 October through 2 December. One calls it southwest of Turtle Tower. The other calls it the west side and gives the length as about 180 metres.

After a visitor’s complaint about a Cai Rang boat, Can Tho’s tourism department said it had called the operator in. It also said đờn ca tài tử is kept on boats at the market from 5:00 to 7:00 in the morning, every week.

Vietnam News reported on 13 May that the market opens every day from 4am to 9am, with around 100 to 200 boats, down from as many as 300. In September the same department said trader numbers were still falling, and gave no new count.

At the city’s tourism festival on 18 October, the nine-month count was nearly 7.7 million international overnight visitors, up more than 28 percent, with an average stay under two days. Korea, China, and India led.

The Ha Long cruise port told Quảng Ninh newspaper that 49 international ships brought nearly 59,000 passengers in nine months. About 20 to 25 more are scheduled before the end of the year.

A fault at the Thu Duc 220kV substation stopped 14 services on the Ben Thanh–Suoi Tien metro on 17 October. Power was back at 7:35. Full service returned at 7:57.

The conservation centre still holds Old Town Night on the 14th of each lunar month. Two calendars put that night on Friday 23 October 2026. The centre has not printed a clock for it.

Dân trí reported on 19 October that hát đối, the bay’s call-and-response singing, is being prepared for three-plank sailing boats. The boats launched on 29 June and have carried about 2,000 people. The singing is not on sale yet.

At a 17 October conference, UNESCO’s Hanoi office said Hoi An had nearly five million visitors in 2025 and 1.71 million ticket sales, about 35 percent. In 2024 the share was about 40 percent.

On 21 October the tourism director said Ninh Binh took more than 20.958 million visits in nine months, including more than 2.442 million from abroad. The English report prints two different revenue figures.

VnExpress reported on 16 October that the park’s own portal says entry is free, and that the park has no visitor count because it does not run commercial tourism. The first round of forest-site applications closes at 16:00 on 24 October.

The culture ministry’s 21 October report says Phu Quoc took about 673,251 visits in October, up 30.3 percent, including 223,440 international visits, up 53.4 percent. Ten months have already passed the island’s plan for the year.

On 13 October the Sa Pa ward and IGB Group agreed to hand over an upgraded Sa Pa Tour app, aimed at a digital map and more than one language. A download for visitors is not in the report.

On 13 October the ward held a workshop on four projects: temperate fruit, a flower landscape, a night-time economy, and digital kiosks with public Wi-Fi. They are proposals and site visits, not a new night market with posted hours.

The peninsula’s management board reopened sightseeing on 14 October after a weather closure that began on 8 October. It also says unlicensed treks into the special-use forest are not allowed. No entrance fee is in the notice.

From 16 October, the royal theatre’s winter timetable puts court music at Duyet Thi Duong at 10:00 and 15:00, the guard change at Ngo Mon at 8:15, and shorter sets at Thai Hoa, Nhat Thanh Lau, and The Mieu.

On 21 April the government approved a conservation master plan for the Trang An–Tam Coc–Bich Dong landscape, 9,663 hectares. It tells the province to control how many people the site can hold, and to keep the villages and festivals named in the decision.