The two-day festival features assorted activities, including gong performances, folk dances, bamboo pole dances of the local Muong ethnic group, the reproduction of the ‘cap sac’ (rite of passage) ritual of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups in Ia Lau commune, Chu Prong district, and panpipe performances of the H’mong ethnic community.

Visitors join a bamboo pole dance at the festival.

Guest artists from the Hue Puppetry Theatre in Thua Thien Hue province and the Quang Trung museum in Binh Dinh province, offer free puppetry performances, drum dances, and martial art shows to visitors.

Festival-goers can also try their hands at making ‘to he’ (toy figurines), writing calligraphy, weaving, and carving wooden statues while participating in exciting folk games and sampling the traditional cuisine of the Central Highlanders.

The festival aims to create an opportunity for 43 ethnic groups living in Gia Lai province to meet and exchange their indigenous cultures, thus raising their responsibilities in preserving and promoting the traditional cultural heritages.

Green Heritage week to be held in Hanoi on Nov 21-25

The Green Heritage Cultural and Tourism Week will take place at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts in Hanoi from November 21-25 as one of the activities celebrating Vietnam’s Culture Heritage Day, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Rice cooking contest in Hanoi’s village recognised as national intangible cultural heritage

With unique values, the rice cooking contest in Thi Cam village, Xuan Phuong ward, in Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Art of crafting and dancing to flutes recognised as National Intangible Cultural Heritage

"The art of making and dancing to the flute of the H'mong people in Dien Bien province" has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Two more national parks nominated ASEAN heritage ones

Bach Ma and Con Dao National Parks have been nominated to become the 54th and 55th ASEAN Heritage Parks at the 33rd ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting on the Environment, held in Cambodia from October 3-7.

Eight cultural and natural world heritage sites in Vietnam

Vietnam ratified the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on October 19, 1987. Ever since, eight sites in Vietnam have been recognised as cultural and natural world heritage.

Source: NDO