Hot-air balloon festival 2024 opens in Ha Long city

With the theme ""Heritage city - Colours of Ha Long", the hot-air balloon festival aims to promote images of vibrant, attractive, and diverse Ha Long to visitors.

The festival is one of activities to celebrate the 79th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2 and 30 years since Ha Long Bay was recognised as a UNESCO's World Natural Heritage site.

The event is part of a drive for it to be recognised as 'Ha Long - City of Festivals', creating many attractive tourism products across the city and more widely, to promote the cultural and heritage legacy to the domestic and international visitors, hoping they will return for the next festivals.

As well as riding on and checking out the hot air balloons, there were many other diverse activities organised, including a lantern night with the balloons and paramotor performance.