The festival also featured a special art performance to honour the intangible heritage of traditional horse racing in Bac Ha.
The Bac Ha horse racing festival is a unique traditional cultural practice that has long become a brand associated with this land.
Neither a commercial nor professional race, the festival at Bac Ha features farmers and their pack horses, which normally carry maize, rice and stone. Horsemen ride their horses without harnesses and stirrups, just a horse belt, with two iron hooks tied to ropes on either side of the horse’s mouth for control.
Visitors to the festival can visit historical and cultural relics, experience many unique cultural features and enjoy the specialties of this land.
