Colourful Nha Trang Sea Festival to be held in mid-June

The Nha Trang Sea Festival will take place in central coastal Khanh Hoa province from June 10^th-13^th this year, expected to lure about 150,000 visitors to participate in a host of activities.

According to Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Duc Vinh, the festival will feature a wide range of events, from colourful street carnivals, fairs, workshops, exhibitions to dynamic sport contests, concerts and cuisine events in a bid to highlight the unique culture of the coastal locality.

The traditional festival of swallow, whale worshipping festival, and street festival of unicorn – lion – dragon dances will be held alongside a fishing contest and a lifeguard competition.

Illustrative image. (Source: Internet)

A cuisine competition will also be introduced for the first time which features local traditional dishes and provides visitors with free foods and drinks while a team from the Nha Trang Tourism College will cook a huge pot of seafood soup in the hope of setting a new Guinness Record of Vietnam.

Many exciting sport events will be organised along the beautiful beach of Nha Trang, including volleyball, football and swimming together with a number of folk games.

Especially, in the 2017 Sea Festival, the street art show will not be organized at April 2^nd Square (Nha Trang City) as the previous years. Instead, it will be held as an open program where the flowers vehicles go along the main streets in Nha trang City and Dien Khanh District and the art items will also be performed on these streets.

The opening ceremony of Nha Trang Sea Festival 2017 is planned to be broadcast live on VTV; other main activities will be screened live on some television channels like HTV and KTV, etc.

The province is inviting entries for a contest to design an official logo for the Nha Trang Sea Festival 2017, the 8^th of kind.

The festival has been held biennially since its debut in 2003./.

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