Combining culture and tourism

The festival features many activities including: rice harvesting competition with rudimentary tools; rice pounding competition with rudimentary tools; black banh chung wrapping competition; experience making yin-yang tiles; experience health care activities using medicinal plants of the Bac Son ethnic group; experience paragliding, rafting on the golden valley...

Bac Son residents (Lang Son) and tourists join in the experience of harvesting early rice.

The festival also displays and introduces the potential and advantages of local trade, services and tourism; at the same time, creates opportunities for businesses, cooperatives and business households in the province to promote OCOP products, typical and unique products to consumers, thereby promoting linkages and expanding the consumption market.

People in Bac Son district (Lang Son) participate in the rice pounding competition.

Vice Chairwoman of the People's Committee of Bac Son District, Duong Thi Thep, said: Bac Son District is located in the Lang Son Provincial Geopark with many typical heritage sites, with great potential in terms of landscape, history, culture and many typical tourism products. Therefore, Bac Son District believes that the "Bac Son Golden Season" Festival in 2024 will be a highlight attracting domestic and international tourists to Bac Son, through which tourists will better understand the culture and historical traditions of the revolutionary homeland of Bac Son.

Tourists experience paragliding over the fields of Bac Son town (Lang Son).

Through the festival activities, Bac Son hopes to introduce and promote the unique cultural and tourism features of the locality to friends inside and outside Lang Son province, strengthen tour and route connections, and attract tourists.