Nha Trang sea festival to draw 15,000 visitors

The seventh Nha Trang Sea Festival will take place from July 11^th to 14^th, reported the Khanh Hoa provincial People’s Committee at a press conference on June 29^th.

Mr. Truong Dang Tuyen, Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the festival will include 52 cultural and sporting activities, honoring traditionally cultural values and quintessence of sea and people in Khanh Hoa in particular and Vietnam in general.

On the sideline, the event will have numerous activities towards the country's sea and island sovereignty such as an exhibition displaying maps and documentation on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Vietnam’s Paracel and Spratly archipelagos and a scientific conference on educating sea and island sovereignty at schools.

Specific traits on Khanh Hoa’s sea and people will be manifested through folk games, Cham pottery display, basket boat rowing competition, traditional fishing competition and a photo exhibition on the beauty of Khanh Hoa aloe wood. In addition, large-scale sporting competitions will be held such as national sailboat competition, national beach volleyball competition and Khanh Hoa beach volleyball completion.

The bi-annual festival is expected to draw 150,000 foreign and domestic tourists to Khanh Hoa./.

( Compiled by VNF )