On the morning of September 20th, the University of Economics, Hue University held the opening ceremony for the 2026-2030 course and welcomed more than 2,800 freshmen of the 60th cohort (K60). With these new students, the university now has more than 15,000 full-time students.

The 2026 Hue Unicorn Dance Festival officially opened on the morning of September 20 at the Sports Hall at 100 Pham Van Dong St. The event is part of the Autumn Festival activities under the Hue Festival 2026 program and is jointly organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Phu Xuan Ward People’s Committee.

On the afternoon of September 19, Hue City People’s Committee held a meeting to review the organization of Hue Heritage and International Music Festival - Hue Wonderverse Music Fest 2026. Vice Chairman of Hue City People’s Committee Tran Huu Thuy Giang chaired the meeting. The meeting was also attended by representatives from relevant departments, agencies, and units.

On September 19, the A Dot Border Guard Station, the Command of the City Border Guard, coordinated with militia, security, and local order forces in A Luoi 4 Commune to help local people harvest rice in Cur Xo, a residential cluster in Huong Lam Village, as part of ‘The Day to Return to the Village’ program.

Since 1998, 32 artifacts or sets of artifacts have been returned to Hue from abroad, but only one of them was acquired through an auction. The other 31 were brought back through appeals for donations and connections with owners.

On September 18, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hung, Vice Rector of the University of Education, Hue University, received and held a working session with a delegation from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) to discuss directions for cooperation in training, scientific research, and academic exchange.

On the morning of September 18th, Hue City Department of Science and Technology held a council meeting to evaluate and consider commissioning a state-funded science and technology task on developing a real-time system to control and simulate flood propagation and provide smart warnings, serving disaster management and response across the city.

Amid rapid technological change, entrepreneurship education at universities needs to create an environment where students can develop creative thinking, problem-solving capacity, and the ability to apply knowledge in practice. This was also the focus of discussions among experts, managers, lecturers, and businesses at the workshop ‘Innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education’, organized by Hue University on the afternoon of September 18.

On the afternoon of September 18, Hue Tourism College held a conference on business cooperation to improve training quality. The event was attended by representatives from management agencies, professional associations, and businesses operating in the tourism and services sectors.

On September 18, Hue hosted the 2026 Asian Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery Conference (ELSA 2026), themed ‘Advancing Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) through Innovation’.

This is the surviving lychee (hac le chi) tree, believed to have been grown from three lychee fruits bestowed upon the palace by the emperor. The tree casts shade over a corner of the palace, and its trunk is so wide that it would take several people to embrace it.

The famous Pho Trach village is located approximately 50 km north of the center of Hue city. Noticeably, villagers at all ages all know how to weave mats from Bang grass.

The world's leading travel application Booking.com announced the top 10 most interesting destinations in Vietnam to Asian tourists in the first quarter of 2024. Accordingly, Hue was listed among these destinations, and others include Ho Chi Minh city, Danang, Hanoi, Dalat, Nha Trang, Vung Tau, Phu Quoc, Hoi An, and Mui Ne beach city.

The images of sunbirds with beautiful appearance and colorful plumage, beautiful little ringed birds, and flocks of red-whiskered bulbul birds next to red kapok flowers all contribute to the colorful and lively beauty of natural life.

Visitors will be immersed in a majestic space with lush green lawns, rows of mossy ancient pine trees when visiting Gia Long Emperor’s mausoleum. Nestled in the ancient pine forests is the architectural complex of mausoleums of Emperor Gia Long and other Nguyễn Emperors.

Parabim I Draw is a recent communal place for those who love painting and art. There is no age or ability limit. Participants are believed to feel peaceful and understand themselves more as long as they are comfortable with their ways of drawing.

We would like to invite you to visit the Bac Ha plateau (Lao Cai city) to admire the pure white color of Tam Hoa plum flowers coming into bloom.

Hue is known as the land of many types of cakes, from royal cakes offered to emperors to commoner cakes. Among them is a type of cake that few people know about, called “Hồng Đào Nguỵ Quả”; (or commonly known as Gac or Spiny gourd cakes), a cake shaped like a unique fruit that people in Hue present on joyful occasions such as weddings and festivals.