The 6th Horse Racing season will be held at Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area, from June 24 to July 2.
To enhance the experience for tourists exploring Sa Pa's summer, Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area organizes a week-long Horse Racing season. Here, visitors can experience the unique indigenous culture from hundreds of years ago, along the racetrack covered with roses.
Interspersed between the races of the Northwest jockeys are art performances, horse parades... promising to bring visitors a vibrant and attractive festival atmosphere.
Riders participating in the 2022 Horse Racing season at Sun World Fansipan Legend. Photo: Sun World
The opening ceremony will take place at 8am on June 24, at the largest rose valley in Vietnam, at the Fansipan cable car station.
During the opening ceremony, 40 cavalry horses and carriages will parade flags, 25 jockeys will perform horse archery and javelin throwing around the vibrant horse racing track. Here, the Group A competition will also start, starting with the traditional torch lighting ceremony and the oath of the referees and athletes for a civilized and fair season.
This year, Horse Hoofs in the Clouds has innovated its organization, so that visitors can enjoy the traditional festival atmosphere every day. Accordingly, on June 24, 26, 28 and the 7th day (July 1), horse races will take place, combined with a horse parade around the rose garden stage.
Visitors also have the opportunity to admire many performances by the 5 ethnic minorities in Sa Pa such as H'Mong, Dao, Tay, Giay, Xa Pho in traditional costumes, with typical baskets and farming tools.
There will be no competitions on June 25, 27, 29, and 30, but the parade will still be held from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., so that visitors can conveniently approach and take souvenir photos with the friendly, simple highland horsemen.
Art performance in the Horseshoes on the Clouds season. Photo: Sun World
This year’s season brings together 25 jockeys from Bac Ha, Bat Xat, Simacai of Lao Cai and Tuyen Quang provinces. According to the organizers, these are all excellent athletes who have participated in many traditional horse racing seasons. This year’s season is held in a knockout format, aiming to select the 3 best jockeys to compete for first, second, and third prizes in the final on July 1.
The close two-horse and three-horse races and the sprint to the finish line promise to bring thrilling moments to the audience.
Horses in the Clouds also has a unique racetrack, about 1,400m long, around the largest rose valley in Vietnam, gathering 300,000 old rose bushes, Sa Pa climbing roses and imported roses.
In summer, the golden sunshine dyes the Hoang Lien Son mountains and hills, millions of roses in the valley bloom. The proud yellow Juliet rose, the velvet red Black Baccarat and Rouge Royale, the light pink Spirit of Freedom or the purple Society... decorate the romantic horse racing track of the Northwest highlands.
In particular, this year, the resort launched a minigame program to give away free cable car tickets to visitors who correctly predict the winning jockeys of the daily and final competitions. The program took place from June 24 to July 2 on the resort's official Facebook fanpage.
The opening day of the season, June 24, will be the "Sun Salutation - Fansipan Peak" celebration with a performance by 500 yoga followers nationwide right at the cloud yard, the cable car station from 9am to 11am. This is the first time the Horse Hoofs on the Clouds season has been held in conjunction with the 9th International Yoga Day celebration in Sa Pa.
Yoga performance on the sacred peak of Fansipan in 2022. Photo: Sun World
According to the representative of Sun World Fansipan Legend, yoga is a thousand-year-old traditional discipline of India, combining physical activities and breathing to connect and balance the body and mind. Therefore, since 2015, International Yoga Day has been organized annually by the United Nations General Assembly to honor the values of yoga for human health and community connection.
"Fansipan Peak possesses a spectacular natural landscape with a sea of floating clouds, deep green forests and bright sun, known as the meeting place of heaven and earth, a place to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. For this reason, this place was chosen as the venue for the yoga celebration, to honor the harmony of body, mind, and spirit of humans with nature," said a representative of the tourist area.
After 6 times being held at Sun World Fansipan Legend, the Horse Racing season has become a unique mark of Sa Pa tourism. The event enhances the experience for tourists on their journey to explore the town in the summer, while contributing to reviving the traditional Sa Pa horse racing culture that is gradually fading away.
Hoai Phong
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