Nguyen Van Hau, Deputy Chairman of My Duc District’s People Committee, has said that festival, which is celebrating both the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday and the beginning of the National Tourism Year in the region, will impress with a wide range of activities, exhibitions and spectacles following the theme Traditional Features of Viet Culture.
Festivities will begin on the sixth day of Tet (February 15) when visitors can enjoy a photography exhibition of ancient Vietnamese pagodas and watch birds being released on the picturesque Yen Spring.
Huong Pagoda is a vast complex of Buddhist temples and shrines built into the Huong Tich limestone mountains in My Duc District’s Huong Son Commune, about 60km from Hanoi downtown.
The site is most crowded during the festival, which takes place during the first three months of the Lunar New Year.