To celebrate the festival, part of the national intangible cultural heritage, a wide range of activities are taking place, including a cultural and tourism week, a festival featuring the southern region’s delicacies, an exhibition on the Mekong Delta’s tourism, an agricultural product fair, a Khmer costume contest, along with traditional sports activities.

Boat racing is an important activity of the traditional Ok Om Bok festival of Khmer people.

Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Duong Hoang Sum said apart from helping with the preservation and promotion of Khmer people’s culture, the event, scheduled to last through October 31, is also an occasion to introduce local people and tourism potential to visitors, enhance the province’s tourism links with other localities, and attract investment in tourism.

The Ok Om Bok (moon worshipping) is one of the three main festivals, along with Sene Dolta and Chol Chnam Thmay, that Khmer people celebrate every year. It often takes place around the full-moon period of the 10th lunar month, after the harvest season.

Khmer people believe the moon is a god who controls the weather and crops. The worship aims to thank the moon for granting them good weather and bumper harvests, and to pray for better crops in the following year.

Tra Vinh is home to nearly 330,000 Khmer people who account for 31% of its population.

Pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem lake bustle with youth dance festival

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HCM City: Ao Dai Festival scheduled for October 11-12

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Quan ho singing festival to be kicked off on October 18 in Bac Giang province

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Photo exhibition and dance festival mark Hanoi’s Liberation Day

A photo exhibition entitled ‘Thang Long - Hanoi: Historical Milestones’ opened in the pedestrian area along Dinh Tien Hoang Street in Hanoi on October 3 as an event to mark the 1010th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi and the 66th anniversary of the capital city's Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2020).

Can Gio’s Whale Worshiping Festival features various attractive activities

A large number of locals and tourists flocked to the 2020 “Nghinh Ong” (Whale Worshiping) Festival which opened in Can Thanh Town, Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City, on September 30.

Source: NDO/VNA