(CLO) To prepare for the Tay Thien Festival 2025 taking place on March 14, Tam Dao has mobilized hundreds of people to participate in many unique cultural, sports and tourism activities.
Taking place from March 14 to 16 (February 15 to 17 of the lunar calendar), Tay Thien Festival is the longest and most important event of Tam Dao district as well as Vinh Phuc province.
To conquer Tay Thien, in addition to climbing, visitors can choose to travel by cable car. Photo: iViVu
Tay Thien Festival is held to commemorate and show gratitude for the merits of Queen Mother Lang Thi Tieu, the Queen Consort of Hung Chieu Vuong the 7th, who had great merit in helping King Hung expand the territory, teach people to grow wet rice, recruit soldiers, and consolidate the dynasty.
To prepare for this year's Tay Thien Festival, Tam Dao mobilized hundreds of people to participate in the ceremony (including the announcement ceremony, the palanquin procession, the incense offering ceremony, and the thanksgiving ceremony). The festival took place with many cultural, sports, and tourism activities.
Up to now, Tam Dao district and related units have basically completed preparations for the festival, ensuring that the festival takes place in accordance with rituals, safely, and arousing the morality of 'When drinking water, remember its source'.
It is expected that on February 13 of the lunar calendar, Tam Dao district will conduct a general rehearsal of the Tay Thien Xuan At Ty 2025 Festival program.
Mr. Do Quoc Trong, Head of the Tay Thien Scenic Area Management Board, said that the special attraction for tourists at the Tay Thien Festival is the unique blend of Mother Goddess worship and Buddhist culture. During the main festival day, there will be a number of rituals such as the procession of the Mother Goddess, the incense offering ceremony, the Mother Goddess worship ceremony, along with cultural, sports and traditional art activities...
In order to best meet the needs of tourists from all over the world coming to visit and worship on the opening days of the festival, Tam Dao district and the Tay Thien Scenic Area Management Board have focused on investing in the infrastructure of the Tay Thien Scenic Area such as: Decorating with flags, signs, panels, posters... along Provincial Road 302, the road leading to the festival center, spiritual sites; renovating the lighting system, trees; replacing new signs for people, warning signs, signs prohibiting street vendors, regulations, festival program announcement signs...
In addition, the work of ensuring security and order, fire prevention, environmental sanitation at Tay Thien scenic area; publicizing and transparent parking fees, licensing parking lots according to regulations; arranging sales locations, publicly posting service prices to tourists are also of concern to Tam Dao district, Tay Thien Scenic Area Management Board, and Dai Dinh town.
To ensure the travel for tourists, the tram system and cable car system are always carefully checked and regularly maintained by Lac Hong Investment Joint Stock Company, ensuring safety and thoughtfulness when serving customers. The price of tram and cable car is publicly listed by the company at information counters and ticket counters.
In order to help the tourism industry grow at the beginning of the new year, the People's Committee of Tam Dao district will organize many spring welcoming activities at the festival area, with the highlight being unique cultural activities of ethnic minorities, spreading the belief in Mother Goddess worship.
Along with that, the district will direct specialized departments to promote the image of Tay Thien Festival on information pages, social networks, and connect with travel companies so that more tourists know about Tay Thien scenic area, ready for the 2025 festival season.
In 2024, Vinh Phuc tourism is expected to welcome 10.6 million visitors, an increase of 14% compared to 2023 and reaching 100% of the annual plan. Of which, international visitors are estimated to reach 90,000 visitors; domestic visitors are estimated to reach 10.5 million visitors.
Total revenue from tourism is estimated at VND4,000 billion, up 10.8% over the same period last year and reaching 100% of the yearly plan.
Tay Thien Pagoda is located in Dai Dinh Commune, Tam Dao District, Vinh Phuc Province. Located about 85km northwest of Hanoi, this is a very sacred and famous spiritual place. Tay Thien Tam Dao Pagoda includes very large spiritual places and has quite unique architecture such as: Tay Thien National Mother Temple, Truc Lam Zen Monastery, Mandala Great Stupa, ... In addition to the spiritual places in Tay Thien Tam Dao, there is also a very poetic natural landscape. Surrounded by Tam Dao mountains and forests, visitors coming here will have a very comfortable and peaceful feeling of the Buddhist realm.
Source: https://www.congluan.vn/tam-dao-san-sang-cho-le-hoi-tay-thien-2025-post337937.html
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