Exciting spiritual cultural tourism

Going to temples and pagodas at the beginning of the year is one of the beautiful spiritual cultural features of Vietnamese people. In the first days of the spring of At Ty 2025, spiritual tourist attractions, relics, and scenic spots in the province attract a large number of pilgrims from all over the country to come for spring travel, sightseeing, and worship.

Tourists sincerely worship Buddha at the beginning of the year at Yen Tu Special National Relic Site (Uong Bi City).

Since the beginning of 2025, tens of thousands of monks, nuns, Buddhists and tourists have come to Yen Tu National Special Relic Site (Uong Bi City) to worship and enjoy the scenery. Yen Tu Spring Festival takes place for 3 months, the largest spring festival in the country. The Organizing Committee has included many unique cultural activities to serve tourists, such as: Lantern Festival Night, praying for national peace and prosperity; organizing folk games, traditional art performances in Yen Tu Nuong Village area; introducing the cuisine of the Dao Thanh Y ethnic group at the foot of Yen Tu mountain... With careful preparation, from the first day of Tet until now, Yen Tu National Special Relic Site has welcomed nearly 200,000 visitors to visit and worship Buddha.

Ms. Nguyen Ha Linh (a tourist from Hanoi ) shared: Going to Yen Tu in the spring has become a tradition for many years in my family. When I came here, I felt very peaceful, although in the crowded and bustling atmosphere of the early year festival, the preparation work was carried out carefully, methodically and civilly. The infrastructure at Yen Tu relic site has also been invested synchronously, helping tourists to both go on spring trips, worship, and relax, take care of their health and spirit.

Tien Cong Festival (Quang Yen Town) attracts many people and tourists from all over the country to attend. Photo: Anh Tuyet (Quang Yen Town Cultural and Information Center).

Not only in Yen Tu, Quang Yen town is considered a land of relics and festivals, with many large and small spring festivals, starting from the first days of the new year, attracting a large number of people and tourists. The highlight of the spring travel activities is the attraction of the Bach Dang National Historical Site - which has welcomed nearly 100,000 visitors since the first day of Tet, an increase of 10.1% over the same period in 2024. In addition, festival activities and traditional cultural experiences are organized in a rich variety, such as: Tien Cong Festival (Hiep Hoa commune), Nhi Vi Tien Cong Festival (Lien Hoa commune), Cau Ngu Festival (Tan An ward), village temple festivals in pagodas in the town... contributing to creating a vibrant atmosphere in the first days of spring. Since the first day of Tet, Quang Yen town has welcomed 250,000 visitors. Mr. Ngo Dinh Dung, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Quang Yen Town, shared: In order to develop tourism in the early spring of At Ty 2025, the town has paid attention to directing and inspecting the work of ensuring conditions for organizing festivals, ensuring safety in fire prevention and fighting, guiding the implementation of relic restoration, cleaning of worship objects, festive decorations and conditions for welcoming visitors to worship and enjoy spring. At the same time, directing the organization of festivals at historical - cultural relics, places of worship, places of belief and religion to ensure compliance with traditional rituals, contributing to the propaganda, introduction and promotion of the value of relics.

Quang Ninh is one of the provinces with a large, rich, diverse and unique cultural heritage with more than 600 tangible cultural heritages such as communal houses, pagodas, temples, shrines and scenic spots. There are more than 118 festivals in the province, of which about 80 festivals take place in spring, typically: Tien Cong Festival (Quang Yen Town); Yen Tu Festival; Hang Son Temple and Pagoda Festival, Den Cong Communal House Festival, Pho Am Pagoda Festival (Uong Bi City); Ngoa Van Pagoda Festival, Quynh Lam Pagoda Festival (Dong Trieu City); Dam Ha Communal House Festival (Dam Ha District); Luc Na Communal House Festival (Binh Lieu District); Cua Ong Temple Festival (Cam Pha City); Van Ninh Communal House Festival (Mong Cai City)...

According to the Department of Tourism, there are currently about 120 relics and heritage sites in Quang Ninh's fixed tour destinations and tourist routes, including relics that have been selected by travel agencies to design many separate products and packages for exploitation. During the Lunar New Year each year (from the 1st to the 6th of the first lunar month), Quang Ninh welcomes about 700,000 to 1 million tourists, of which 70% come to relics and heritage sites in the area.

The Management Board of the Cua Ong - Cap Tien Temple National Special Relic inspects business establishments to ensure food safety and hygiene. Photo: Bao Long (Cam Pha City Cultural and Information Center)

According to Mr. Nguyen Ha Hai, Director of Hon Gai Tourism & Service Joint Stock Company - Quang Ninh Branch, right after Tet, travel companies welcomed a large number of spring tourists and early year temple visits. Spiritual cultural tours in Quang Ninh with a schedule of 1-3 days, priced from 500,000 VND - 3 million VND/person are the most popular, because they are suitable for the majority's time and economic budget. Currently, the number of spiritual cultural tour sales in January is still good, but customers do not book early, the trend of booking close to the date is still popular.

In order for spiritual tourism to develop in the right direction, bringing traditional, spiritual and historical cultural values, the Provincial People's Committee has issued Plan No. 6970/KH-UBND (dated November 16, 2015), implementing the National Strategy on Green Growth of the province for the period 2016-2020, with the goal of: Developing the economy quickly and sustainably; shifting and accelerating economic development towards "green" industry. In particular, focusing on direct investment in tourism, building Uong Bi - Dong Trieu - Quang Yen into a unique cultural - historical - spiritual tourism center.

Following the above orientation, the province has devoted many resources, promoted socialization, focused on preserving, embellishing, and effectively promoting the cultural and historical values ​​of relics and scenic spots in the province; focused on building reasonable tours, routes, and tourist attractions, improving traffic infrastructure leading to relic sites, as well as strictly controlling the management, organization, and implementation of civilized festivals at all tourist sites, relics, and scenic spots in the province. The province has established a master plan for tourism development, strengthened the management of the tourism business environment, attracted many strategic investors, and large tourism corporations to develop high-class products in the province. At the same time, promoting synchronous infrastructure connections, airways, expressways, and waterways to promote regional connectivity at the national level, regional linkages at the international level, and creating momentum to promote the development of transportation, services, and tourism, helping the province make a breakthrough in development according to the green growth model.

Source: https://baoquangninh.vn/soi-dong-du-lich-van-hoa-tam-linh-dau-nam-3343247.html