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Quang Nam to promote culture tours

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:11:49 +0000

Central Quang Nam province will introduce its special culture and tourism potentials at the biggest ever Tourism Culture Week slated for the end of November in Hanoi, a provincial official said.

Deputy Director of the provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism Department Ho Tan Cuong said that the two world cultural heritage sites – My Son relics and Hoi An ancient town – and the cultures of mountainous ethnic people will be introduced at the event.

Quang Nam will showcase Thanh Ha porcelains, Ma Chau silk, Ban Thach mats and Kim Bong carpentry and Phuoc Kieu bronze casting products among its traditional craft products.

The week will also include Quang Nam’s traditional costume show, folk arts and games performance as well as the introduction of the provincial gastronomic arts with its specialties, such as “Cao Lau” (pork noodle soup), “banh beo” (bloating fern-shaped cakes) and “banh bao” and “banh vac” (white rose).

Apart from the two world cultural heritage sites, Quang Nam is home to hundreds of historical and cultural sites and ethnic-imbued culture.

According to the statistics of Quang Nam’s tourism sector, the province has welcomed around 200,000 tourists each month since the start of the year. Despite the A/H1N1 flu epidemic, 212,000 tourists flocked to Quang Nam in August.

Cuong said that his province will continue implementing advertisement campaigns in local and foreign markets, organise promotion programmes at hotels and restaurants and develop tours to traditional craft villages, in a bid to lure more visitors.

Source:vietnamnet.vn

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Quang Nam Heritage Itinerary Festival to be held in

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:08:55 +0000

The fourth Quang Nam Heritage Itinerary Festival 2009 will be held from June 4-7 to mark 10 years of UNESCO recognition of My Son relic and Hoi An ancient town as world cultural heritages.

The opening ceremony will take place in My Son and the closing ceremony, in Hoi An.

The Quang Nam People’s Committee announced at a press conference on May 12 that most activities in the biennial festival will be held in Hoi An town and Duy Xuyen and Dien Ban districts under the theme “Heritage in our hands and hearts”. The opening ceremony will take place in My Son and the closing ceremony, in Hoi An.

The festival will include folk art performances, exhibitions of antiques, paintings, photos and statues relating to the two heritage sites.

Two world beauty queens, Miss World 2007 Zhang Zi Lin and Miss World 2008 Ksenia Sukhinova, will come to the event as guests.

Organisers also plan a series of sport events, including a golf tournament and a boat race.

My Son, which was recognised as a world cultural heritage site alongside Hoi An in 1999, is the cradle of the Cham people who joined other ethnic groups such as Viet, Co Tu, Xe Dang, Co, De Trieng, Chinese and Japanese to build a life in Quang Nam.

Their over 600-year-old heritage has produced a multi-tradition of artwork, religion, architecture and food from the different ethnic groups.

These special and diversified characteristics of culture created the complex of Hoi An’s ancient streets and My Son temples site, that put the area on the UNESCO preservation list.

VietNamNet/VNA

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