A cherry blossom festival will return to Tuyen Lam Lake in Da Lat city of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from January 26-28.
Da Lat is home to a cherry-like
apricot – Mai Anh Dao – known as the city’s floral emblem (Photo: VNA)
A ceremony will be held at Sacom Resort on the peninsula of the Tuyen Lam Lake
at 8:30 am on January 27 to kick off the festival and to announce the
recognition of Tuyen Lam National Resort and Da Lat city as ASEAN
Environmentally Sustainable City.
A variety of event will take place not only at the Tuyen Lam National Resort
but across the city during the three-day festival, including art performances,
musical fountain shows, a golf tournament, a Gong music night and an exhibition
of classic cars.
The festival aims to promote a local cherry-like apricot – Mai Anh Dao – known
as the city’s floral emblem. The flower blooms in pink in the first months of
the year to welcome the spring. The trees mostly grow in Da Lat city and
forests in Lac Duong district.
"I have never seen cherry blossom as beautiful as this year. The flowers
started to bloom at the beginning of January and in such a cool weather, they
will last until early February,” said Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Tuyen
Lam National Resort and head of the festival organising board.
Da Lat won the ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City at the ASEAN
Environmental Award in Brunei in July last year.
Source: VNA
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As spring comes, people in Phu Nghia commune in particular and Lac Thuy district in general flock to Tien Pagoda festival to enjoy festive activities during the annual event.
Khai Ha festival is a long-standing traditional folk festival with the largest scale of Muong people in Hoa Binh province. In 2022, Khai Ha fesstival the Muong minority in Hoa Binh province was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2023 and 2024, the festival was held on the provincial scale, getting together 4 major Muong regions (Bi, Vang, Thang, Dong) to participate, and it has been an opportunity for the quintessence of Muong ethnic culture to converge and shine.
With a great passion for national art, outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan in Voi area, Ba Hang Doi town in Lac Thuy district, has developed and promoted a Muong ethnic cultural space with over 2,000 artifacts which are familiar in the daily life in the Muong ethnic people.
Along with the process of integration and development, traditional cultural identities of the Muong ethnic community in general, and Muong ethnic people in Tan Lac district in particular, are at risk of falling into oblivion. Therefore, many clubs have been established in the locality to preserve and promote the beauty of the ethnic group’s cultural identities.
Held every three years, the swing festival in Muong Voi, Vu Ban town in Lac Son district is "one-of-a-kind". From the 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Dragon, thousands of residents and tourists flocked to the locality to experience the unique cultural festival.