Mu Cang Chai in the ripen rice season (Photo: VNA)Yen Bai (VNA) – Hotels and other lodging facilities near the specialnational heritage Mu Cang Chai Terraced Field in the northern province of YenBai has been packed with holiday-makers those days as the COVID-19 pandemic hasbeen brought under control.
According to Secretary of Mu Cang Chai district’s Party Committee Nong VietYen, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists have flocked to thelocality to experience local ripen rice season.
The district built a plan to organise the Mu Cang Chai terraced field festivalwith a wide range of activities featuring cultural identities of local ethnics,he added.
Particularly, the new highlights of thisyear’s festival are the DiscoverMu Cang Chai marathon with the participation of 100 athletes,a helicopter cruise to experience the landscape from above, a camping festivaland the district's four-season outdoor spectacle.
Besides, the paragliding festival “flying over the ripe rice season”, andtraditional contests also excited festival goers.
Meanwhile, a tourism promotion campaign named “I love Sa Pa” kicked off in SaPa town, Lao Cai province on September 30 with an array of cultural, art andsport activities and promotional progammes to lure more tourists to thelocality.
Sa Pa town, bestowed with stunning natural landscapes together with outstandingculture, has been a safe destination since the second wave of COVID-19 outbreakhit Vietnam in July.
The number of tourists to Lao Cai province fell 67 percent year on year to 1.3million during January-September, making revenue gained from tourism servicesdecrease 70 percent to over 4.7 trillion VND (202.2 million USD).
If the tourism promotion activities show efficiency, the province can greet 2.5million visitors and gain over 11 trillion VND in 2020./.
VNA
