Taking part in Le Muong festival with Vietnam Airlines

This autumn, Vietnam airlines invites all visitors to experience a place of extremes and marvelousness with the beauty of Vietnam’s Muong culture. Thai A reports on what is sure to be an exciting event.

On September 30th, the Le Muong festival will open in Hoa Binh town to honor the culture, music and traditional graphic arts of the Muong people. Held in the Muong cultural space museum in Hoa Binh city, Hoa Binh province, the event will encompass a festival and an exhibition.

Designed to celebrate and preserve ethnic Muong culture, the Le Muong festival features four key sections:

Mo Muong singing: The Mo Muong artist known as “Mr. Mo Muong” and other singers will take the stage to perform rhymed epics detailing the Muong people’s vision of the start of the world. The 70-year-old oracle Bui Van Chay will perform ancestor workship rites and recount the epic “The Birth of earth and Heaven”, a folk myth that narrates the Muong people’s history.

Special art: Stone and timber reclaimes from old Muong stilt houses will be transformed into artworks. There is also a 3000 square meter herb plantation. The displays are sent on a 1.5 hectare hillside,

Music: an orchestra will play traditional Muong gong music.

Body art: Body art in the patterns of Muong folding skirts will be painted on the bodies of Muong youngsters.

Weigh everything up, there will be definitely no disappointment revealed after long flight to set foot on this wonderland.

Over an area of 1.5 hectares of steep terrain in the museum grounds, a group of contemporary sculptors led by Mr. Dao Chau Hai and including the four sculptors Khong Do Tuyen, Nguyen Ngoc Lam, Nguyen Van Ngoc and Nguyen Van Thao, will use timber and stones obtained from two demolished Muong stilts houses to arrange and create works of art that combine Land art and Ecological art.

The fertile soil between the timber and stones will be filled with 200 species of herbs cultivated by Muong people. These herbs will contribute to the restoration of the Muong’s herb steam-bathing customs. Herbal steam-baths has long been used for medicinal reasons. One 200-square meter stilt house is devoted to herb stem baths.

The 1.5 hectare site and its various artworks will form an important visual focus for the festival. Exhibits should be in place for one year. A unique blend of modern arts and old-fashioned rituals, and an east meets West festival style, will hopefully bring new ideas to the community. The festival should have long-lasting impact on Muong society and leave visitors with enduring impressions of this fascinating culture.

Foreign travelers can book flights with Vietnam Airlines to Hanoi then take tours to Hoa Binh and enjoy the festival with the local people.

Vietnam Airlines introduces Co To Island

5 years ago, “Co To island” seemed to be a strange venue with many passengers. Nevertheless, this land is becoming an increasingly interesting place to go for a special trip, which will be introduced by Vietnam airlines as following.

Tourists visiting Co To island are impressed not only by pristine beauty of nature here but also by the friendly attitude of locals and their hospitality. All are thanks to the new and advanced management of the local authorities, triggering the development of tourism sector. Difficulties in transportation, water, electricity is being solved and other conditions and services are being gradually improved to meet the demand of travelers.

Eco-tourism is attracting many domestic and international tourists to Co To island. It also becomes huge revenue of this island village beside exploiting and processing sea creature. An increasing number of households are investing in several kinds of services such as: transportation, restaurants, hotels…”Home stay” is a new decision of the province government, which is just applied in Dong Tien commune. It is proving its effective side so that the local authorities are going to expand it to some other areas.

Infrastructures of Co To island are being built to make it more convenient with visitors but there remains indispensable pure nature to attract them. More special venues as well as relaxing activities will be discovered such as: local art exhibition, discovering the natural sea, one day becoming a fisherman. Besides, protecting environment will definitely plays a vital role in relation with developing tourism field.

Vietnam Airlines advises all our honored foreign passengers that you should take flights to Hanoi and utilize some means of transport to visit Co To island as soon as possible. Needless to say, Co To island will be a perfect choice in your summer holiday.

Explore green rice with Vietnam Airlines

Each year, Vietnamese families look forward to the harvest of fresh green glutinous rice. Vietnam airlines presents some favorite dishes made with sweet-smelling green rice. Here, Vietnam Airlines introduces some popular dishes.

Fried minced pork with green rice flakes (chả cốm):

Greasy minced pork fried with sweet-scented young green rice flakes (Com) add up to a tasty dish typical of Northern Vietnam. Young green rice flakes produced early in the Com harvest season are thin and soft. By the end of the Com harvest season, the green rice flakes are bigger and thicker. Only green rice flakes produced in the middle of the Com harvest season are suitable for this recipe. Steamed pieces of chopped pork and green rice flakes are soaked in boiling oil. This tasty savory dish is best served hot.

Sweet green rice porridge (chè cốm):

Sweet green rice porridge is a very popular dish in Vietnam. Green rice is cooked with sugar to create a subtly sweet pudding. What makes this dish special is the scent of fresh green rice.

Fried green sticky rice (cốm rang):

Sweet-scented Com Vong is used to make one of the most famous local specialties in Hanoi-fried glutinous green rice. The cook adds green rice flakes into boiling water and sugar, stirs the mixture well and fried it in a pan over low heat. It takes just a few minutes until the mixture turns smooth and dry. Diners cut the cakes intro squares and dip them in roasted sesame seeds and coconut.

Green rice flake cakes (bánh cốm):

 Green rice flake cakes are made of dried green rice flakes, green beans and sugar. To prepare the covering of the cake, 1kg of green rice flakes is mixed with 1.3 liters of water and 1kg of sugar. The essence of grapefruit flowers is added to the mixture. The filling consists of 1kg of steamed green beans and 1.2kg of sugar. Other ingredients include sugared lotus seeds, coconut and grapefruit essence. This delicious yet simple cake is often wrapped in banana leaves.

Even if you are not hungry, it is hard to turn down a plate of sweet steamed green sticky rice. This dish is made using fresh soft and very dry green rice flakes, green beans, coconut and sugar. First of all, green bean are steamed in a rice cooker and ground into flour. A paste of green bean flour, coconut and two or three spoon of sugar is fried over a low fire until the mixture become thick and smooth. It takes about 10 minutes to steam fresh green rice yet 15 to 20 minutes to cook very dry green rice. The dish has a delicious flavor of green rice, green beans and coconut essence.

Foreign travelers can take flights with Vietnam Airlines to go around Vietnam and enjoy all the specialties.

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Air Vietnam introduces Cham tower complex

The Po Klong Garai Cham tower complex in Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan is the most beautiful and best-preserved Cham tower complex in Vietnam, as the introduction of Vietnamese Airlines. Just 7km from Phan Rang town, the Po Klong Garai towers loom on a dry hillside. Built in the 13rd century in honor of King Po Klong Garai, the towers play an important role in Cham culture.

King Po Klong Garai is remembered for his contributions to agricultural development and irrigation. According to the legend, the king was an orphaned cowherd who won the support of the Dragon God and became a talented and highly moral king who helped to develop and protect the Cham kingdom.

Located on a hill over 100m high, the compound initially consisted of one main tower and five surrounding ones. Today, only three towers remain, the largest standing 20.5m high, the Fire Tower 9.13m high and the Gate Tower 5.65m high. As Vietnam Air information, Po Klong Garai features distinctive Cham architecture and remain central to the religion of local Cham people. Cham people still attend festivals at this compound to pray for good luck.

Arched gates, pointy towers and decorative bas-reliefs made of Cham bricks have withstood the ravages of time. A nearly solid block of bricks, the towers interior spaces are just large enough for primary rituals. In front of the entrance gate of the main tower rests a Siva statue. Smaller towers rise in great symmetrical pairs to narrow towards the top, creating an ascending shape that is both solemn and impressive. All facets of the tower are decorated with patterns and sculptures inspired of ancient Cham and Vietnamese culture.

The standing towers remain firm and the bricks tightly stacked. The type of mortar that the Chams used, or whether they even used mortar, remains a topic of debate. What is certain is that the sophisticated techniques of the ancient Cham builders have allowed these towers to remain as silent symbols of Cham culture.

You can take Vietnam airlines flights and the local buses to explore the beauty of Cham tower complex.

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Immerse in old space of Phuoc Loc Tho village with Vietnam Airlines

For those people who love the nostalgic beauty and have passion to learn daily life routine of old Vietnamese people, Vietnam airlines is pleased to introduce to you Phuoc Loc Tho village (which means happiness, wealth and longevity). The village provides you a general view of ancient life in villages of the North, the Middle and the South of Vietnam. Coming to the village, visitors will have an interesting experience. The old space in Phuoc Loc Tho is different from villages in modern life nowadays. Tourists can be attracted by wooden houses in ancient styles, variety of instruments with all kinds of materials and color and specially the peaceful and natural landscape. 

The space of Phuoc Loc Tho village is full of traditional Vietnamese architecture. The owner of the area collected styles of old houses from all the regions across the country and carry on reconstruction in the village.

The village is divided in to 2 distinct areas: sightseeing and entertainment zone. Visiting the sightseeing zone, tourists will have chance to see many different kinds of houses in Vietnam, from the Western style with five compartments and three lean-tos, to Middle styles with houses built according to Hue royal palace and highlands style with houses on stilts. The interior is decorated with phonographs, cabinets, camp beds, and other precious items used in daily life of kings, military agencies, landowners, residents in the past. Moreover, spiritual items in Vietnamese culture are also arranged and decorated suitable to each house. There also have a temple modeled on the One Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi in the ancient village of Phuoc Loc Tho.

Leaving to the entertainment zone, visitors can admire the beauty of 250,000 kinds of orchids imported from Thailand, nearly 20 hundred-year-old trees and many rock-gardens with variety of designs are placed in the middle of the lakes. Tourists also have opportunity to explore Vietnamese culture in the Mekong River area or the Oc Eo ancient culture, enjoy the special dishes of the Long An and nearby areas and listen to passionate folk songs.

Located 30km from Ho chi minh City, after taking off the flights, tourists can easily reach the place by bus. vietnamairlines.travel is pleased to serve you with information of air vietnam flights and vietnam airline tickets to Ho Chi Minh city.