On March 22, the Cherry Blossom Festival was held in Ky Thuong Commune, Halong City (Quang Ninh Province). This is the first festival organized by the Halong City People's Committee, aiming to contribute to maintaining and promoting the nation's fine traditional cultural values, creating unique products to promote, promote and attract tourists to Halong City in general and Ky Thuong Commune in particular. Halong cruise tours
The festival will take place over 2 days, including outstanding activities such as: Planting cherry blossom trees; visiting cherry blossom displays and exhibitions, booths displaying and selling OCOP products and some booths displaying and selling products of typical households and businesses in the city; cultural and sports exchange activities taking place during the festival; experiencing Kimono costumes (Japan) and costumes of ethnic groups in Halong city; bamboo dancing exchange; crossbow shooting, stick pushing, stilt walking performance, and traditional costume embroidery.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ky Thuong Commune, Halong City said: "The festival is organized to concretize the project of Halong - the city of flowers and festivals. To develop tourism in Ky Thuong Commune associated with exploiting the cherry blossom landscape, the People's Committee of Halong City has approved 2 detailed plans with a total expected area of planting landscape forests and cherry blossom trees of about 30.8 hectares (at Dong Cut Hamlet Tourism Service Area, Khe Tre Village about 8.86 hectares and Khe Tre Hamlet Tourism Service Area, Khe Tre Village about 22 hectares). The future orientation is to create a flower forest in Ky Thuong Commune, aiming to exploit this area to become a large landscape park typical of the area associated with experiential activities, such as: sightseeing, adventure sports activities, camping activities, festivals, conferences, film studios, and nature museums.
Ky Thuong cherry blossom area is a new and promising eco-tourism project in Halong, accompanied by leading Japanese companies specializing in cherry blossom planting. About 100 cherry blossom trees have been planted and are growing well.
By organizing the cherry blossom festival, Halong city hopes that Ky Thuong will become an attractive destination, attracting tourists, enriching resources and unique tourism products; contributing to introducing to tourists from all over the world, besides Halong Bay - a heritage and natural wonder of the world, the city is also very attractive because of the pristine and majestic beauty of the mountainous area in the North of the city. Through the festival, it contributes to bringing the image and culture of the Dao ethnic group to many tourists, bringing the beauty of Japan to the majority of people in Halong city. At the same time, it strengthens the great solidarity of ethnic groups, creates a joyful and exciting atmosphere, enriching the spiritual life of the people.
Ky Thuong is located in the highest area of the highland communes of Halong city, with a population of nearly 900 people, of which over 98% are Dzao people. In addition to its biodiversity value, Ky Thuong commune is also considered a locality with natural tourism resources, with many high mountain ranges, many systems of rivers, lakes, streams, and vertical waterfalls, interspersed with vast green forests, creating a natural landscape of "beautiful mountains and rivers", with a cool climate all year round.
Source: https://halong-tour.com/travelnews/cherry-blossom-festival-in-halong-city.php
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