Tuyen Quang jubilantly opens the Buckwheat Flower Festival 2025

(CLO) On the evening of November 29, at Thanh Nien Square (Dong Van commune), Tuyen Quang province held the opening ceremony of the 11th Buckwheat Flower Festival in 2025.

The Buckwheat Flower Festival is an important cultural and tourism event to honor the beauty of the typical flower of the Dong Van Stone Plateau. This year, the festival has the theme "The Stone Land in Bloom" with many cultural and festival activities lasting until the end of December in the communes of the Dong Van Stone Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark.

To prepare for the festival, hundreds of hectares of buckwheat flowers have been planted in communes along main roads and at tourist attractions so that visitors can experience and immerse themselves in the idyllic purple-pink flower carpets.

Vice Chairman of Tuyen Quang Provincial People's Committee Vuong Ngoc Ha delivered the opening speech of the festival. Photo: nhandan

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the festival, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Tuyen Quang province Vuong Ngoc Ha said that after the merger of Tuyen Quang and Ha Giang provinces, Tuyen Quang province has a wide open space for economic, cultural and tourism development.

The province has been exploiting its potential for cultural, historical and natural tourism in the right direction and effectively. In 2025, many locations have achieved noble titles in the field of tourism and services, affirming their position on the national and international tourism map.

Notably, Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO Global Geopark was recognized as Asia's top destination in 2025.

Special art performance at the opening ceremony of the 11th Buckwheat Flower Festival in 2025. Photo: nhandan

In the 2025-2030 term, Tuyen Quang province is determined to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector; develop heritage economy, create community livelihoods, help people rise up to get rich in the rocky areas, and gradually develop cultural industry based on heritage values.

After the ceremony was an art program with the theme "Blooming Stone Land" with many unique singing and dancing performances such as folk dance, traditional musical instrument concert, ethnic costume performance and reenactments of the typical cultural life of the Dong Van Stone Plateau.

A Mong ethnic girl in the valley of buckwheat flowers. Photo: Minh Tam/VNA

Within the framework of the festival, many communes organized special activities such as: Competition to perform and introduce traditional costumes of ethnic groups; activities to experience linen weaving, brocade embroidery; making traditional household items and musical instruments; displaying and introducing local products.

Visitors can also experience buckwheat flower growing areas; experience cultural exchange, arts, and folk games in the center of the old town and typical community cultural-tourism villages.

Source: https://congluan.vn/tuyen-quang-tung-bung-khai-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-nam-2025-10319796.html