According to the Da Nang Tourism Department, more than 100,000 tourists to the city, 75 % of whom are foreigners, have booked local hotels and resorts to explore the Tet Festival and other popular attractions.

Floral decorations along a section of Bach Dang riverside walk are very attractive to foreign visitors (Photo: NDO)

On the occasion of Tet, a flower festival started on the 1^st day of the 1^st lunar month in the Sun World Ba Na Hills resort, 1,471m above sea level.  The festival will conclude at the end of March.

Visitors at the resort have been receiving ‘li xi’ (lucky money) from 16 - 21 February. 

In Quang Nam Province, an exhibition of a total of 60 coloured photographs was opened at the Tam Thanh Village– famous for its murals – 7km from Tam Ky City.

The photographs have been put up on sidewalks of the village road to attract tourists during the lunar New Year.

The village gets almost 500 tourists every day, while some 2,000 young, offbeat travellers and backpackers visit to enjoy the colourful paintings on the walls of old houses in the fishing village.

Last year, the Tam Thanh art community village was awarded the 2017 Asian Townscape Award for its colourful murals. It is the first commune in Viet Nam to have colourful murals painted on its moss-covered walls by artists from Korea.

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)