The remark was made by Do Tuan Khoa, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Giang province,at the opening ceremony of the Hanoi - Bac Giang cultural tourism route, taking place on March 16 in Bac Giang City.
The route was opened by the SGO Travel Services and Exploitation JSC and the information and tourism promotion centre of Bac Giang.
It features one-day and two-day-and-one-night tours, in which visitors will depart Hanoi for cultural, historical and spiritual relic sites, beautiful landscapes, and craft villages in Yen The, Viet Yen, Luc Ngan, and Son Dong districts of Bac Giang.
The tours, available for both domestic and international tourists, are open every day from Wednesdays to Sundays.
Particularly, the “Hanoi - Tay Yen Tu” tour will offer an experience of the path of Buddhism propagation by King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong, founder of the Truc Lam Zen Buddhist sect, and his disciples over 700 years ago. Travellers will have a chance to gain an insight into a set of more than 3,000 Buddhist woodblocks, listed by UNESCO as documentary heritage in the Memory of the World Programme for the Asia-Pacific region, at Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Yen Dung district.
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Do Tuan Khoa, Deputy Director of Bac Giang ProvincialDepartment of Culture, Sports and Tourism speaking at the opening ceremony of the Hanoi - Bac Giang cultural tourism route. (Photo: DANG KHOA) |
The tour route is expected to enrich unique cultural tourism products departing from Hanoi to destinations in Bac Giang, contributing to making this place a new attractive destination on the tourist map of Vietnam.
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Visitors’ experience at Hoang Hoa Tham historical site (Yen The district). (Photo: DANG KHOA) |
During the event, the SGO Travel Services and Exploitation JSC also signed an initial cooperation contract with two typical local businesses, demonstrating its commitment to associate and accompany sustainable tourism development, turning Bac Giang into an attractive cultural-spiritual destination of the northern region.
