North Vietnam Traditional Festival

Vietnam, a country with 54 ethnic groups of people and each group has many traditional festival that shows their cultures and traditions is really valueable for tourism nowsaday.

Gau Tao Festival

This traditional festival belongs to H'Mong ethinic group in the North provinces of Vietnam. Gau Tao festival is help to ask for luckiness and safety for the whole village. For some childless families, it is time for them to show their respect to the Gods so that God can understand and gives them a child.. 

Gau Tao Festival

Normally, this festival occurs from 26th to 29th of the final lunar month due to Chinese cenladar. It will be help at a flat place that is near the main roads of the village.many games will be seen in that festival like: Spinning, Wrestling, Bow firing, Horse racing and many other kind of traditional dancing also happens. 

Umbrella dancing

Khen dancing

It's time for the villagers relax after a hardworking year. Today, many tourists also come there to enjoy and join the festival as they want to experience the real life f local people there.

Lap Tich Festival

This festival belongs to Dzao people in some mountainous areas of Vietnam. Lap Tich or Cap Sac festival is the most important one of Dzao people. This is the ritual for all the man in the village. 

Lap Tich ritual

If anyone (male only) want the society knows that he is an adult, he has to overcome the Lap Tich Festival. This one is also the letter to Gods to show that this man now can contribute to the group he is living.

Offering in Lap Tich 

The price for that festival is very expensive for the Dzao people as it only happens one time in the life of the man. For the offering, they need to have rice, pork and money to invite the old people and other local people come to witness. The average age of the man begins from 13 years old. 

Huong Pagoda Festival

Huong pagoda festival occurs from 6th of the first lunar month to the end of the 3rd lunar month at Huong Son village, Hoai Duc district, Hanoi. This is the longest festival of Vietnam.

One pagoda in this festival

Coming to join this festival, we can take a boat to visit some pagodas there. While waiting for coming to the main cave (the main pagoda is inside the cave, called Huong Tich Cave), we can enjoy the view in the both side of the river banks with the yellow color of rice field.

Sampan in Huong pagoda

Main pagoda - Huong Tich Cave

Every year, thousands of people come here to worship and wish for a better new year.

Lim Festival

Lim festival is in Bac Ninh province, the province that famous for many big pagodas and 1 intangible world heritage: Quan ho Singing.

Quan Ho Singing

Lim festival occurs in 13th of the first lunar month. This time, many people from Bac Ninh province will gather together at Lung Giang village, Tien Son district.

Lim festiva

Normally, this festival will be held each 3 years. Many games and activities are also help in this festival.

There are still many other famous and interesting festival in Vietnam, once you come, you can see and enjoy it yourself.!!