The fifth biennial Nha Trang Sea Festival, themed Nha Trang – Coastal Destination this year, will be held next month.
Itwill feature some 60 cultural, arts, sporting and tourism events, KhanhHoa Province People's Committee deputy chairman and head of theorganising board, Le Xuan Than told the media in HCM City on May 16.
"The festival aims to attract domestic and foreign tourists to the province and the country," Than said.
Thai Nguyen Province will also participate into this event this year, he said.
FromJune 2 to 10 there will be a fishing and sea tours at night, an S1water-motorbike performance, a sepak takraw competition on the beach,and a Nha Trang sea bath day.
There will be environmentalprotection activities, including a city-wide rubbish clean-up on theInternational Environment Day (June 5), and a conference on marinepreservation.
Exhibitions will be held to showcase Cham culture,Lu Cam porcelain, calligraphy, photographs of the city, and high-qualityVietnamese goods, as will a festival of folk cuisine and the region'sspecial dishes, a music concert and comedy shows.
The organiserswill highlight the region's speciality – swallow's nest – withconferences on the industry's history and traditional culture,developing swallow communities and the uses of swallow's nests, and twoswallow's nest festivals in the city and on Hon Noi Island.
A charity show, Dance on the Beach, will be held on June 10.
Themain festival will open with a fireworks display. The opening day willfeature a volleyball competition, a film week, a street photo exhibitionon the Beauty of Aloe Wood Region, another on the Truong Sa (Spratly)Archipelago, a Champa pottery and brocade display, a cooking contest, afood court, and a street-arts show.
The highlights of thefestival will be parades of bicycles, pedicabs, Vespa scooters andvintage motorbikes, an exhibition of sand art, human chess, a FishWorshipping ceremony, stunt kite flying, dancing by the best couplesfrom the Khanh Hoa Gymnasium, poetry recitation, and music shows themedthe sea and islands.
Morbihan Province of France will participate in the festival, bringing its own musicians and photography enthusiasts.
Vietravel's diving centre, Vinadive, will organise underwater weddings for 10 couples on June 15 at Hon Mun Sea Reserve Area.
Ofthe cost of organising the festival, 80 percent has been contributed byorganisations and businesses in Khanh Hoa and elsewhere./.
Itwill feature some 60 cultural, arts, sporting and tourism events, KhanhHoa Province People's Committee deputy chairman and head of theorganising board, Le Xuan Than told the media in HCM City on May 16.
"The festival aims to attract domestic and foreign tourists to the province and the country," Than said.
Thai Nguyen Province will also participate into this event this year, he said.
FromJune 2 to 10 there will be a fishing and sea tours at night, an S1water-motorbike performance, a sepak takraw competition on the beach,and a Nha Trang sea bath day.
There will be environmentalprotection activities, including a city-wide rubbish clean-up on theInternational Environment Day (June 5), and a conference on marinepreservation.
Exhibitions will be held to showcase Cham culture,Lu Cam porcelain, calligraphy, photographs of the city, and high-qualityVietnamese goods, as will a festival of folk cuisine and the region'sspecial dishes, a music concert and comedy shows.
The organiserswill highlight the region's speciality – swallow's nest – withconferences on the industry's history and traditional culture,developing swallow communities and the uses of swallow's nests, and twoswallow's nest festivals in the city and on Hon Noi Island.
A charity show, Dance on the Beach, will be held on June 10.
Themain festival will open with a fireworks display. The opening day willfeature a volleyball competition, a film week, a street photo exhibitionon the Beauty of Aloe Wood Region, another on the Truong Sa (Spratly)Archipelago, a Champa pottery and brocade display, a cooking contest, afood court, and a street-arts show.
The highlights of thefestival will be parades of bicycles, pedicabs, Vespa scooters andvintage motorbikes, an exhibition of sand art, human chess, a FishWorshipping ceremony, stunt kite flying, dancing by the best couplesfrom the Khanh Hoa Gymnasium, poetry recitation, and music shows themedthe sea and islands.
Morbihan Province of France will participate in the festival, bringing its own musicians and photography enthusiasts.
Vietravel's diving centre, Vinadive, will organise underwater weddings for 10 couples on June 15 at Hon Mun Sea Reserve Area.
Ofthe cost of organising the festival, 80 percent has been contributed byorganisations and businesses in Khanh Hoa and elsewhere./.
