Vietnam festival tour

VIETNAM FESTIVAL TOURS 2017
Vietnam is the place to be this year if you are looking for a much deeper experience when it comes to touring. Year in, year out, most tourists visit various exotic destinations in their world for what they have to offer. It could be the chilling beauty and adrenaline-rush skiing in the Swiss Alps or holding your breath while you stare at a majestic lion, lying just a few feet before your eyes in an African park. I have some good news for those looking for something new. Something exciting. Something that would touch your soul and have you looking at life differently. At Vietnam, you are presented with dozens of festivals that take place throughout the year, in different parts of the country. Have yourself a festival tour of Vietnam this year, as you journey from the North, to the South of the country, dwelling among the people and having yourself a memorable time. The Vietnam festival tour will bring you this much closer to your spiritual side. For those who may disagree, this Vietnam travel tour will open your eyes to the possibility of other dimensions. Another parallel universe that dances to the same tune of ours, but is separated by an infinite form of nothingness. Get ready to immerse yourself into a different world this year, with the Vietnam.

festival tour of Vietnam

LUNAR NEW YEAR (TET)
Tet is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Tet is also the Chinese Lunar New Year. Tet is the most upheld Vietnamese festival and falls somewhere between late January and early February. Tet is celebrated by all Vietnamese, no matter where they are. Each beginning of the lunar year brings with it so much hope and excitement. Even the Vietnam people living out of their country feel this strong urge to go back to their country to celebrate this festival with their loved ones. This festival stretches far more than what includes the land of the living. It is believed that during the Tet, the household genies meet to celebrate yet another fruitful year of helping the people. These household genies include the Craft Creator, the Land Genie as well as the Kitchen God. And the festivities do not just stop here, long dead ancestors also join in the fun. This comes to show how the Tet is such an elaborate affair.
As you can imagine, the Tet festival can stretch out for weeks, despite it being a three-day affair. The streets and houses are decorated with fine flowers and summery colors to add to the cheerful mood. Street vendors carry flowering peach trees to sell to avid consumers. The flowering peach tree is a symbol of life and good fortune, and they add a sight that you will not see anywhere in the world. Imagine a jam-packed street in your hometown, littered with various flowering peach trees behind hand-drawn carts. It is only in during a Vietnam tour that you can scratch this off your bucket list.

LIM FESTIVAL
Another enchanting festival celebrated nowhere else but at Vietnam includes the Lim festival. This festival takes place in the Lim village, about 18 kilometers out of Hanoi on the 13th day of the first lunar month. A special folk song, Quan Ho, is performed on this merry day. Imagine your best opera singers all in one place, singing their hearts out while bringing tears to your eyes. Only this time, they are not standing stiffly on some expansively decorated stage, but rather on a narrow boat. This sort of makes things interesting as one wrong move, a push or a shove, would send the entire choir splashing into the river. Such a spectacular occurrence is yet to happen. Who knows, it may just happen during your festival tour to Vietnam!
Apart from singing on boats, the elaborate choir made up of the ‘lien anh’ (male singers) and the ‘lien chi’ (female singers) performs in pagodas and on the hills. The male singers and female singers engage each other in a melodic and beautiful dialogue that will leave a lasting impression in your heart.

lim festival

THE NUI BA FESTIVAL
In Vietnam, Nui Ba is a mountain that is located in the heart of the Mekong delta, 11 kilometers from Tay Ninh located in the South Western part of Vietnam. Nui Ba Mountain is sometimes referred to as Ms. Den Mountain, after a legendary story involving a young woman called Denh. Denh (or Den) was the lovely daughter of a guard officer from the Mien ethnic community. Pressured into marrying the son of a guard officer from the Trang Bang area, she fled to a monastery in the mountain, where she would live all the days of a life as a nun. Such devotion led to her being honored as the Linh Son Thanh Mau (Saint Linh Son), and a mold of her in black bronze being cast. Stretching from the spring to the 30th day of the first lunar month, tourists from cities all around Vietnam embark on a pilgrimage to the Nui Ba Mountain to worship and sightsee. A journey to the Nui Ba mountain as you pilgrim will help you get in touch with places within you that were far out of reach before. Embark on this spiritual journey during your Vietnam festival tour this year.

MUCH, MUCH MORE
The festivals do not end there. We have mentioned just a few that we hope would interest you this year. Take a leap of faith, literally, and get acquainted with your inner self this year during the Vietnam travel tour. Other memorable festivals include the Perfume Pagoda festival that offers a famous Buddhist pilgrimage to a sacred cave located far up in the mountains. Loyal pilgrims travel through rice paddies and limestone mountains and into sacred caves where they pray for a prosperous and bountiful new year. There is also the Phu Giay Festival, Hue Festival, and the Chu Dong Hu Festival. There are over 20 colorful festivals in Vietnam spread throughout the year from the Northern part of the country all way to the Southern shores of Vietnam. It does not matter what day of the year you will be free to enjoy these festivals, you are safe assured to be spoilt for choice, each time around.

The 2017 Vietnam travel tour will be a year to remember. Well, what are you waiting for? Book your ticket today!

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