Huong Pagoda Festival officially opens
The 3-month Huong Pagoda Festival, the largest in Vietnam, officially opened in Hanoi’s My Duc district on February 13 or the sixth day of the lunar New Year, with the attendance of about 50,000 pilgrims.
Sightseeing trips to pagodas, temples and caves are the main attractions at the Huong pagoda festival, in addition to ceremonies to ask favours from Lord Buddha.
Built in the late 17th century, Huong Pagoda has a large number of pagodas, temples and caverns filled with marvelous stalactites and stalagmites, about 60km from downtown Hanoi.
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The organising board estimated that about 200,000 tourists have flocked to Huong Pagoda over the past four days.