The Buckwheat Flower Festival is an important cultural and tourism event held to honour the distinctive beauty of the flower that symbolises the Dong Van Karst Plateau.
This year’s festival theme is “Mien da no hoa” (The stone plateau blossoms) and features diverse cultural activities and celebrations scheduled to run through the end of December 2025 across local communities in the Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark.
To prepare for the event, local communities have planted hundreds of hectares of buckwheat along principal transport axes and tourism focal points, giving visitors immersive open-field experiences among unspoilt carpets of purple and rose-pink bloom.
At the opening ceremony, Vuong Ngoc Ha, Deputy Chairwoman of the Tuyen Quang Provincial People’s Committee, highlighted that following the administrative merger of Tuyen Quang and Ha Giang Provinces, the new Tuyen Quang Province has broad and open space for economic, cultural, and tourism development.
The province has been tapping into its cultural, historical, and natural tourism potential in the right and effective direction. In 2025, a number of destinations earned distinguished titles in tourism and services, reinforcing their standing on the national and international tourism map.
Most notably, the Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark was recognised as one of Asia’s leading destinations in 2025.
For the 2025–2030 term, Tuyen Quang is resolute in its determination to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector; advance heritage-based economy to generate community livelihoods, enabling ethnic communities to achieve prosperity in the stone plateau, while gradually building a cultural industry rooted in heritage values.
Following the formal ceremony, the showcase programme featured standout performances reflecting the Dong Van UNESCO Global Geopark’s inherent cultural identity, including folk choreography, traditional instrument ensembles, and ethnocultural attire productions.
Across the festival, communes will host multiple specific activities, including competition to display and introduce traditional costumes of ethnic groups; experience of linen weaving and brocade embroidery; making of traditional household items and musical instruments; and displaying and introducing of local products.
Visitors can also experience buckwheat flower growing areas; experience cultural exchange, arts, and folk games in the center of the old town and typical community cultural-tourism villages.
