Tourism website www.thrillist.com has named Y Ty
mountainous commune in Bat Xat District of northern Lao Cai Province as
one of the best-kept secrets in Asian travel.
A group exhibition featuring works by 14 Vietnamese
artists will has opened yesterday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of
the founding of the Craig Thomas Gallery.
Y Ty, one of the poorest communes in Lao Cai
Province''s Bat Xat District, has become an attractive tourism
destination in recent years due to its natural beauty.
The Craig Thomas gallery will offer a three-hour preview of ed
works by 10 artists that are headed for an art exhibition in Hong Kong
later this month. The preview will be held at the gallery on March 7.
Artifacts left by prehistoric men from the late Palaeolithic Age have
been discovered at the Sua Can Ty archaeological site in Quan Ba
District, in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.
According to travel companies, tourists and photographers are flocking to the northern province of Lao Cai to witness the beauty of terraced fields of ripening rice.
The daily lives of farmers and fishermen is the major theme of 21
surrealist paintings of Nha Trang-based artist Ty now on display at the
Tu Do Gallery.
Holding a ty ba (traditional four-stringed guitar)
delicately in his hands like an angel with a harp, Swedish artist Stefan
Ostersjo slowly turns his body in an elegant female fashion.