According to the Management Board of Huong Pagoda, roughly 4,500 boats were prepared to serve visitors to the festival, one of the biggest in Vietnam, especially for Buddhists.
This year saw guests to purchase digital tickets and scan QR codes at the entrance gate as opposed to using paper tickets like in previous years.
The management board said that 80,000 visitors have flocked to the pagoda since January 21.
Situated about 60 km from downtown Hanoi, the Perfume pagoda is a vast and striking complex featuring pagodas and Buddhist shrines built into the karst cliffs of Huong Tich Mountain, also known as the Mountain of the Fragrant Traces.
Last year saw the three-month long Perfume pagoda festival draw 1.5 million visitors.
Tam Chuc Pagoda – Ancient beauty amidst majestic scenery
Covering 5,100 ha, Tam Chuc complex is a perfect combination of ancient beauty and the mighty of the immense mountain.
Mysterious Nepal
Nepal is well-known for over 50 ancient temples and palaces built from the 14th-17th centuries which are wonderful destinations for tourists to discover the mysterious country. Here are some images and stories about the temples and relics in the Buddhist sanctuary along the rivers of Bagmati Vishumati that Vietnam Pictorial’s reporter Kim Phuong would like to introduce to readers.
Fatal coronavirus infects Spring festival
When he sent three of his four boats to be upgraded with better seating and canopies, Trinh Van Sau was hoping he could recover his investment this festive season,
The Ancient Pagoda of Van Nien
Van Nien Pagoda is located on Lac Long Quan Road to the west of the West Lake in Hanoi. The thousand-year-old pagoda is considered one of the most famous ones in the old capital of Thang Long.
Tra Dinh Vu Di –A Tea Shop in the Drizzling Rain
“Tra Dinh Vu Di” is the name of a newly-open tea shop located about seven kilometers to the west of downtown Hue. The name of the shop attracts the attention of lots of visitors, because according to the Chinese – Vietnamese meaning, it is “a tea shop in the drizzling rain”.
