Interesting Festivals to Travel to Vietnam

Perfume Pagoda Festival

Vietnam’s most celebrated festival is held each February at the Perfume Pagoda located some 70km southwest of capital city of Hanoi in northern Vietnam and considered as the most famous Buddhist pilgrimage site in the country and every year literally tens of thousands of pilgrims travel to the sacred cave to pray for happiness and prosperity for the coming year.

Cow Racing Festival

Held in late October and early November of each year and mostly celebrated in pagodas and Khmer households in An Giang Province to remember the ancestral merits, wishing happiness and peace for the deceased’s souls, In this festival, the ox racing which is held in a large ground surrounded by high earthen ramparts where spectators can stand. The racing lane is 100m long and 4m wide each racing tournament involves 38 pairs of oxen selected from competition in commune level. Most of the oxen have strong postures: big heads, straight backs, solid bones, long tails, small ears, round necks and gentle eyes.

Elephant racing festival in central Vietnam

This annual festival is held in the 3rd lunar month in Don Village near the Sevepoi River in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. The race track is on a ground which is large enough for 10 elephants to stand in a line simultaneously whilst the length of the track is from 1 to 2 km. After the sound of the horn, the mahouts command their elephants to move to the starting point. The horn signals the start of the race, and the elephants rush ahead amidst the resounding cry of the spectators the sound of the drums, gongs. At the end of the race, the winning elephants raise their trunks to salute the crowd and receive sugarcane from them. However, there is other similar festival which called Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival which held in Hai Phong city.

Bai Dinh Pagoda festival

This festival held in sixth day of the first lunar month in Sinh Duoc village. The festival is held to worship the Buddha as well as the honor to many significant historical events related to national heroes like Quang Trung, Dinh Bo Linh.

Vietnam Lunar New Year – TET holiday

An ancient lunar new year which held in both Vietnam and China with history dating back to the thousands of years ago, generally this was the festival run by the Vietnamese farmers to thanks the god for the coming of the spring which latter become the national and the Lunar New Year. Tet is the time for refreshing the soul, mind and culturally the largest and most celebrated even in Vietnam, the time for Tet is around Mid February each year.

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