Vietnam, New shaped cards,

These shaped cards were released for several months but till now I just can take them in my hand. It is not complet as a Cyclo-bus and another ethnic girl card are not here. However, better late than never.

These cards are designed and issued by Vietnam post. They show different culture and nice landscapes of Vietnam. In normal, they are distributed to province to serve the tourist such as the ethnic girl card is sold in Sapa, Pagode bridge is sold in Hoi An, so on. So it is quite difficult to find them in Hanoi.

From the set of 2, this one shows 'Dao' ethnic girl.

Vietnam, Lantern postcard,

A lantern of Hoian from Muong te, the northern of Vietnam. The stamp is not matching with the card at all but very nice cancelation.

Thank you Tâm!

Vietnam, New shaped cards

Vietnam Post has released 3 new designs recently. 

The first one shows a city flower with each leaf each well-know sight-seeing site in Saigon (the old name of Ho Chi Minh city but the most people prefer the name Sai gon)

The second one shows Grand Opéra de Saigon. It dated more than 100 years.

The last one is the Cathédrale de Saigon.  The right one is old issue, in cloche form. The left one is new one.

Vietnam, Saigon Shaped cards,

Rooster year stamps are released today and I went to philatelic shop to make some items for my lunar year collection as precedant years. I met director of Vietnam stamp company. We talked a bit about shaped cards that Vietnam post issued recently. She confirmed that in next time, there will other interesting shaped card designs about different topics such as 4 seasons, Vietnamese cuisine, ethical people,... that the sale in Saigon is better than that one in Hanoi. I am so excited about designs next time.

She gave me these cards as a pretty gift. (Coz I said that I hadnot seen them on sale in Hanoi. They are Saigon site cards).

These 3 cards show well-known sites in Saigon. Bến Thành market - biggest one in Saigon; the Cathedrale and The central Post Office. They are all french colonial architecture in Vietnam.

Thank you so much Mrs.Hang for this gift.

Vietnam, Shaped cards serie from Vietnam post

 Today I went to philatelic bureau as we have new stamp and I saw they had released new shaped cards. So until now, the Vietnam post had released 5 shaped card: Ancient bridge, Lantern, Aodai - tradional costume, Conical hat and the earliest one: a postal box issued last year as the official maxicard for the 70th anniversary of Post and Telecomunication issue.
I hope Vietnam post will have more for this serie to present about our country.

The first one issued in Aug 2015. A typical postal post in any city in Vietnam.

These two show Hoian city, an UNESCO site. Issued in July 2016. The Bridge Pagode and Hoian Lantern are very famous to tourists when they visit Vietnam. They are symbol of this tiny and peaceful city.

And these two released recently. Conical Hat and Aodai are a couple which make the beauty of vietnamese girl, women for several decades. There are many poets and writers writting about this topic .

I look for new ones about the vietnamese cuisine as I am a bit gourmand.