By Bus: There are many buses connecting Dien Bien with Hanoi and other provinces in Vietnam. The flight will take you an hour to get to Dien Bien Phu airport, which is very near to the center of the town. By Air: There are flights from Hanoi to here operated by Vietnam Airlines at 10:00 and 13:30 on a daily basis.
You can get here by two ways: by air or by bus: Therefore the high season for travelling here is from January to April and from September to December, when the weather is neither hot nor cold, giving you a very pleasant feeling. The once fierce battlefield, has now become a peaceful city, attracting history and adventure lovers from all around the world.ĭien Bien Phu weather and climate is mild with a lot of rain in the summer. Until this day, many tourists, including French veterans, are still coming here to understand the tactics used by the Vietnamese army and what drove them to be such fearless soldiers. In that battle, Vietnamese army won against a much more powerful and better-armed French force. But nowadays, this place is best known for the event that happened there almost 70 years ago: “Dien Bien Phu battle”. Its previous name was Muong Thanh, or Muong Then in Thai, literally means Heaven’s Country. This region is not only inhabited by Kinh (Vietnamese) people, but also ethnic minorities such as Tay, Si La, and Hmong people.īased on folklore, it used to be the origin place and was a center of all Thai ethnics in South East Asia. Coming here, you will be amazed not only by the scenery, but also the variety of ethnic cultures in the region. It is only 30 km away from the Laos border and 453 km from the Northwest of Hanoi. This historical site is located in the middle of Muong Thanh valley, which is shaped like a saucepan, and its border is made up of forested hills. All were triggered in a tiny city in the Northwest of Vietnam called Dien Bien Phu. In 1954, for the first time, a colonized country freed herself from a Mother Country, which inspired a chain of national liberation all over the world.