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Tourism Festival: “Ninh Kieu colorful lanterns night 2017”
Hoang Trinh 10:24, 2017/08/27
On August 19-21, Can Tho Department of Culture, Sport,Tourism cooperated with Can Tho’s People Committee to organize “ Tourism Festival - The 1st Ninh Kieu colorful lanterns night 2017” at the area of Ninh Kieu Footbridge, Can Tho, Vietnam.
Coming to “Tourism Festival - Ninh Kieu colorful lanterns night” in Can Tho, visitors had a chance to see big and colourful lanterns to be dropped in the river with wonderful shapes and mordern liminuos technology. In which, nearly 100 lanterns have been dropped in Khai Luong channel, decorated with colourful lights, that have made impression for this special activity.
 
Lanterns dropped in the river
Lanterns dropped in the river
In this festival, there have been many attractive activities such as: laterns examination, books, newspapers, magazines, calligraphy, sketch’s exhibition, traditional racing boat, plastic art, decoration examination, presentation “ Cake- Southern tradtional food”. Especially, there have appeared many activies to promote tourism, such as singing with amateur artists, folk games.

With the success of “Tourism Festival: Ninh Kieu colorful lanterns night”, the first time will be the base for the next annual festival and this will improve tourism activites, culture, festivals in Can Tho. Especially, being organized on the occasion of APEC 2017, this festival will help Can Tho City to attract more and more foreign tourists in the coming time.

This festival is the chance for tourism promotion “Typical tourist attractions of Mekong River – Ninh Kieu”, which was acknowledged by MeKong River Tourism Association in 2015, and help Ninh Kieu become “typical national tourist destination”.
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