Yen Tu Spring Festival to kick off on Feb. 14

The annual Yen Tu Spring Festival is going to be launched on Feb. 14 (or the tenth day of the first lunar month) at the Truc Lam Yen Tu Cultural Centre. All of the preparatory tasks for the event have been under effective implementation.

As one of the biggest and longest festivals of the year, Yen Tu Spring Festival often lures millions of pilgrims and tourists.

As one of the biggest and longest festivals  of the year, Yen Tu Spring Festival often lures millions of pilgrims and tourists. In order to ensure the overwhelming success of this significant event, Uong Bi city has currently conducted a range of preparatory actions in terms of  security insurance, environmental protection, price stability, food safety, health care, etc.

In particular, the road from Doc Do T-junction to the heritage relic has been kept clean, a lot of additional rubbish bins has been provided along the pilgrimage route and some crowded places. The local government has promoted raising public awareness of obeying regulations on services trade and environment protection; strictly supervised and imposed hard punishments on law-breakers.

Uong Bi city also plans to install free wifi stations in Yen Tu area and considers to operate  the system of automatic reply in order to offer tourists with better service quality. As scheduled, the city will set up a large-scale LED screen at Doc Do area to promote the image and information concerning the heritage relic site. A range of promotion acitivites towards Yen Tu and other attractions across Uong Bi city will be carried out at the same time.

Yen Tu mountain is located about 50km from Ha Long city with 30km pilgrimage route. Notably, Dong Pagoda is situated atop the mountain peak, aound more than a kilometre above sea level.

The area’s beautiful natural landscape and awe-inspiring scenery, along with surrounding ancient pagodas and hermitages, are said to have been the reason that King Tran Nhan Tong passed the throne to his son, so that he could devote his life living as a Buddhist monk at Yen Tu Mountain. Whilst there, he founded the Truc Lam Zen Buddhist sect, one of the outstanding values that has led to Yen Tu being recognized as the country’s leading center for Buddhism.

Yen Tu has been selected among the top 10 destinations for spiritual tourism attracting the largest number of tourist arrivals to Vietnam by Vietnam Record Association since 2014.

Article by Hoang Yen