Festival "Dance on the white plateau" Bac Ha opens

The People's Committee of Bac Ha district (Lao Cai) opened the Bac Ha Winter Festival with the theme "Dance on the white plateau", at Hoang A Tuong palace, a 100-year-old architectural monument, on December 11. The festival aims to stimulate demand and to restore tourism in the locality with regards to safe adaptation of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Rose performance opens the series of events at Bac Ha Winter Festival-2021
Rose performance opens the series of events at Bac Ha Winter Festival-2021

Bac Ha is a highland district, rich in potential for landscape tourism and multi-ethnic cultural identity, known as the "white plateau", the capital of the famous Tam Hoa plum variety.

Bac Ha Winter Festival includes a series of activities, including Hmong brocade pattern making art combined with fashion design, food stall "Bac Ha rice tray" combined with the rose-wine festival, winter night prom combined with Ta Chai fire festival and horse racing.

Some pictures of Bac Ha Winter Festival-2021:

Yellow roses bloom on the entrance to Hoang A Tuong mansion, a unique architectural work in Bac Ha that turns 100 years old.

The thick-petaled roses bloom in temperate weather similar to Europe, in Bac Ha.

H'Mong ethnic girl and Bac Ha roses.

Costumes of the H'Mong, Tay, and Phu La ethnic groups in the Bac Ha white plateau.

Hats show off unique colours.

Demonstration of ethnic cuisine.

The cake is made from sticky rice in the high mountains, sticky rice is pounded with a wooden pestle.

Horse racing, no saddle.

Racing to the finish line.

Visitors to Bac Ha Winter Festival.

Translated by NDO