Happy Vietnam Day 2025: Colorful and emotional experiences

VOV.VN - Taking place over 3 days (from December 5 to 7), the Happy Vietnam Festival 2025 organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism with many diverse and attractive programs and activities at Hoan Kiem Lake walking street, Hanoi has left many impressions in the hearts of domestic and foreign tourists.

Visiting Hanoi on the occasion of the Vietnam Happiness Day 2025, Ms. Nguyen Thi Diem Huong, from Dong Thap, was excited to have unforgettable experiences. “There were many meaningful activities, such as: a mass wedding ceremony of 80 couples, 13 colorful experience spaces, stamp hunting in 34 provinces and cities... I had to participate in all the activities, each event had 1-2 stamps, so I had to collect all 34 stamps. These activities brought me many memories that made me happy.”

"Hundred Flowers of Joy" parade program

The festival takes visitors through 13 colorful and emotional experiential spaces. Along the road around Hoan Kiem Lake, visitors can visit many impressive installation spaces at the photo exhibition “Happy Vietnam” with the theme of traditional crafts, hometown scent, home flavor…; take photos, preserve memories with loved ones through free photo booths arranged in many locations around the lake.

In particular, at the beginning of the journey, each tourist was given a map of Vietnam. Through each experience space, tourists could collect stamps and stick them directly on the map, each stamp representing a province or city. These activities attracted the attention of tourists of all ages.

Stamp hunting activities

Mai Tran Duy Hieu, Hung Yen shared: “Today I participated in many activities. Besides taking photos and checking in, I went stamp hunting, which was quite meaningful because we would learn about the provinces and cities after the merger and the cultural values ​​as well as the relics of that province. I also watched the program “Bach Hoa Bo Hanh”, learned about and admired the costumes of my people. Many young people participated and wore beautiful traditional costumes.”

Passing through this road, visitors will encounter the painting area, where family members send messages of love, sharing and connection through works created together. The “Happiness Tree” stop is located at Ba Kieu Temple area, allowing locals and visitors to write messages to their loved ones.

Photo exhibition "Happy Vietnam"

Not only bringing exciting experiential activities, Vietnam Happy Day 2025 also left many impressions in the hearts of visitors with the parade program "Hundred Flowers of Joy". The event had the participation of more than 500 young people walking around Hoan Kiem Lake, wearing unique Vietnamese traditional costumes, recreating the traditional wedding scene of the Nguyen Dynasty with many meaningful messages.

Thanh Nam, representative of the Vietnamese Costume Festival project “Bach Hoa Bi Hanh”, said: “This year’s theme is the wedding season, inspired by the Joy of the Nguyen Dynasty. With the rhythm of the procession of offerings and auspicious symbols, our group’s program hopes to evoke the image of the procession of family officials and the bride and groom in the past as vivid memories, now brought to the streets of Hanoi. Not only gathering specialized parade groups, but also meeting a large community of Vietnamese costume lovers, cultural research and practice groups. In particular, this year there are couples who registered to participate as one man and one woman. This is also a new point of this year’s season, expanding the experience space for those who want to preserve wedding season memories with the image of traditional Vietnamese costumes.”

The parade stopped at the performance stage at Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square.

“Vietnam Happy Fest 2025” is the premise for Vietnam to build an annual “Vietnam Happy Festival”. A special day to remind that the happiness of Vietnamese people is built from peace , from the love of each person, from the will to overcome difficulties, the spirit of solidarity, the simple things that make up the cultural identity of Vietnam. This is also an affirmation that Vietnam is not only a destination of beauty, country, people but also a destination of humanity, peace, and faith in a better future.

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