The Hoa Ban Festival is an annual event, a time when the colorful cultural picture of the ethnic groups in Dien Bien province is displayed. With a series of unique and rich activities honoring the traditional culture, landscapes, and people of the Northwest, the Hoa Ban Festival 2025 promises to be an attractive destination not to be missed at the beginning of the year.
Within the framework of the activities, this year's Ban Flower Festival will take place from March 13 to March 16 with a variety of cultural, artistic and sports activities. The opening ceremony of the 2025 Ban Flower Festival will take place on March 14 in Dien Bien Phu City, with careful and methodical investment, the performances will recreate the historical and cultural stories of the ethnic groups of Dien Bien. At the end of the art program, people and tourists will enjoy a brilliant fireworks display, join in and experience the traditional solidarity dance. With the most typical features of the history, culture and people of Dien Bien, the opening night promises to be an unforgettable experience for visitors from all over.
Along with that, a series of activities of exchanging folk songs and dances of ethnic groups, performing excerpts of festivals, and traditional cultural rituals of ethnic groups are also held. This is an opportunity for ethnic groups in the province to show off and promote their beautiful traditional cultural values to tourists. Each song, dance, and excerpt of cultural rituals are unique tourism products in the Northwest. Along with that, the live show "U Va Legend" is performed and served throughout the 4-day festival, helping visitors better understand the rich spiritual life, imbued with the long-standing mystery of the Thai ethnic community in Dien Bien.
One of the highlights of this year’s Festival is the “Beauty of Hoa Ban” contest - a place to honor the beauty of young women in the Northwest highlands, as pure as white Ban flowers blooming in the morning dew. Contestants participated in many attractive competitions, from performing in traditional costumes, Ao Dai, evening gowns to the behavioral competition to show their talent and intelligence. This is not only a playground but also a place to find typical faces to represent and promote the culture and tourism of the province.
Contestants of the Hoa Ban beauty contest with many outstanding performances. In the photo: Contestants of the Hoa Ban Beauty Contest 2023.
Along with that, the street parade (evening of February 15) with the theme “Colors of Dien Bien” is also a notable highlight. With actors from communes, wards, schools… in Dien Bien Phu City and Dien Bien District, it promises to bring a multi-dimensional view, rich in the cultural colors of traditional costumes of ethnic groups in the province.
The 2025 Hoa Ban Festival also brings many unique experiences to visitors in the "Highland Cultural Space", which recreates the daily life of ethnic groups in Dien Bien province. These include Thai stilt houses, low-roofed houses surrounded by stone walls of the Mong people, half-stilt, half-earth houses with thatched roofs of the Dao people, and Ha Nhi rammed earth houses...
Visitors experience traditional xoe dance in the highland cultural space.
In the cultural space of ethnic groups, there are countless traditional objects, looms, cotton-pulling tools, corn mills... all imbued with the breath of space and time of the Northwest region past and present. Not only displaying and promoting traditional culture, this place also sells and experiences typical products from brocade fabrics, agricultural products, and cuisine of Dien Bien ethnic groups.
Traditional handicrafts are displayed and experienced in a highland cultural space.
In the common area of the cultural space, there are also many competitions and experiences playing traditional games such as throwing balls, pounding rice cakes, tug of war, pushing a bicycle to carry ammunition, etc. creating a vibrant and joyful atmosphere for the festival.
Traditional sports bring a joyful atmosphere to the festival.
Along with cultural, sports and tourism activities at the Ban Flower Festival, for visitors from all over the world, this is also a time to immerse themselves in the pure white color of the streets filled with blooming Ban flowers.
At present, the rows of Bauhinia flowers begin to change leaves and the pure white flowers begin to bloom.
Up to now, there is still nearly a month until the Hoa Ban festival, on the streets of Dien Bien Phu city, leaves are gradually falling to reveal branches, buds are gradually blooming, young men and women start taking photos, checking in early, promising that this will be the season of Hoa Ban flowers blooming white in the sky right on the occasion of Hoa Ban festival 2025.
Highland girls take photos and check-in with Bauhinia flowers.
With attractive and diverse activities, the 2025 Ban Flower Festival not only aims to honor the symbolic flower of the Northwest highlands but also contributes to preserving, promoting, and bringing unique cultural features of the land and people into typical tourism products to welcome visitors from all over the world to learn and explore... Contributing to making Dien Bien tourism a key economic sector of the province.
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