NINH BINH TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS

            Step into the bustling atmosphere of the new year, Ninh Binh province to immersed in the unique traditional festivals and impressive. Visiting Ninh Binh one day and enjoy the unique essence of festival in this potential region. The land is the former capital which attracts many tourists to visit by beautiful scenery and many excellent rich of tourism festival.
Vietnam Eco Travel will introduce you to Ninh Binh traditional festivals:
• Phu Cho festival in Hoa Lu ancient capital: celebrated on the first day of lunar new year, a famous singer name’s Mrs.Pham Thi Tran will do a performance in this festival. They will sing “ca tru” which is a folk song of Vietnam to commemorate Ngu Lau Dai Vuong.
• Yen Ve village festival: celebrated on 4th January of lunar calendar in Nguyen Minh Khong temple and Phuc Long pagoda
• Phu Vat festival in Hoa Lu ancient capital: celebrated on 6th January of lunar calendar to commemorate Cam Tra Dai Vuong
• Bai Dinh pagoda festival: celebrated annually on the 6th of January of the lunar calendar ( Tet festival time ) in Sinh Duoc village, Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien district. Like as other festivals, this one comprises two parts: worshiping and entertaining. The worshiping includes the purification and commemoration of heroic martyrs. The entertaining activities take about 3 days, including playing chess, wrestling and more.
• Ap Lang temple festival: celebrated on 6th January of lunar calendar in Yen lam, Yen Mo.
• Non Khe village festival: celebrated from 13rd to 14th January of lunar calendar  inYen Tu, Yen Mo.
• Nhat Tru pagoda festival in Yen Thanh ancient village, Truong Yen: celebrated on 15th January of lunar calendar
• La temple festival: celebrated from 13rd to 15th January of lunar calendar in Yen Phu village, Yen Mo to commemorate 2 Kings of Vietnam in Tran dynasty.
• Dau temple festival: celebrated from 20th February to the end of March of lunar calendar in Nam Son, Tam Diep
• Dich Long pagoda festival: celebrated on 6th and 7th March of lunar calendar.
• Thien Ton cave festival: celebrated from 6th to 8th March of lunar calendar.
• Hoa Lu ancient capital festival in Hoa Lu district: celebrated from 6th to 10th March of lunar calendar.
• Quang Phuc temple festival: celebrated from 10th to 15th March of lunar calendar to commemorate Cao Son god and Quy Minh god.
• Thai Vi temple festival in Hoa Lu ancient capital: celebrated from 14th to 16th March of lunar calendar to commemorate the dedication of kings in Tran dynasty.
• Yen Cu festival: celebrated on 20th August in Khanh Cu, Yen Khanh district.
• Nguyen Cong Tru temple festival in Kim Son: celebrated from 13rd to 15th November of lunar calendar. This festival is held to commemorate the dedication of the people who made Kim Son district.

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A fantastic walking tour with a super friendly girl
It was a nice day today, just a little cold and stopped raining (It was both cold and rainy the day before). I was outside to meet my friends. My leader from my free walking tour called me to guide a tour with a girl in the old quarter. I quickly agreed and move to her hostel by motorbike to pick her up. Today was on weekends, there was some forbidden streets ar

ound the old quarter with vehicles so I was late about 5 minutes. My first impression with her is she’s tall, friendly and has nice smile. We introduced each other. Her name’s Tera, from Canada and she just came to Hanoi in the morning from Hue by bus so she didn’t go anywhere around here. Therefore I made a itinerary for her: Hoan Kiem lake, a Vietnamese traditional house, Hang Ma street, Dong Xuan market, Long Bien bridge. Expecially she could try some traddional foods through our tour. She relly liked my itinerary because she’s interested in trying new foods. Ready for our tour!

Firstly, we walked around  Hoan Kiem Lake – The heart of Hanoi. It includes Ngoc Son temple, The Huc bridge, Turtle Tower, Pen Tower and the green lake. I told her about the legend of the lake, the history of those places. Then on the way to the Vietnamese traditional house, we tried douhua which is made with very solf tofu and mixed with suger syrup, we bought it from a street trader who sell douhua from his bicycle. She liked it. We kept moving to visit the traditional house in Ma May street which was built at the end of the 19th century and is typical of the traditional architecture in the Old Quarter. I wanted to guide her to here to show you how Vietnamese people lived, their lifestyle and the way we express our respect for our ancestors. In this house, the structure elements in a good shape as well as the traditional succession of buildings and courtyards have been preserved. It present the Vietnamese architecture and building techniques (facade, inner house organization). Leave the house, we tried pillow shaped cake which is made from rice flour, have wood ears, pork, soya noodles inside. We ate it with sour and sweet sauce (garlic, chili, sugar, lime juice, water, fish sauce, carrots, kohlrabi) and some kind of herbs: corianders, lettuces, perilla, etc to reduce its oil taste and raise guests’s appetite. After that we went to Hang Ma street – a colourful street. In this street, they sell many things to decorate for Tet (Lunar New Year in Vietnam). It’s like we got lost in a beautiful places and almost of things here are red which is the lucky colour. Next, we went to Long Bien bridge which is a historic cantilever bridge across the Red rivel delta and connects two districts. The sightseeing under the bridge was beautiful. We went down the bridge, saw the banana field, I guided her to the place which locals usually go to swim in the summer after work, saw the large river and told her something about our life. Then we went up and moved to Giang coffee to try egg coffee which are very specific in Hanoi. She tried hot egg coffee and she really liked it. After that, we came back her hostel and tried to find a mobile shop to buy a SD for her. Finally, we said goodbye and gave a warm hug to each other
I admire her because she has traveled to a lot of countries. Just one bad thing is that my foot were painful because the shoes I weared today were not good to walk for a long time and I didn’t have time to come back my room to change another shoes before I did the tour. But I still feel happy because I have a nice tour today and know more a lovely friend.
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