Continuing the activities in the 2025 Son La City Ban Flower Festival, the Cultural Camp Competition is a place to gather and spread the cultural identity of the ethnic groups in Hoa Ban City.
With creativity and ingenuity, 12 cultural booths have been elaborately decorated by communes and wards in the city from natural, environmentally friendly materials, introducing typical cultural features, imbued with the local ethnic identity. Each commune and ward brings a booth displaying unique and distinctive ethnic cultural spaces, bearing its own cultural characteristics according to the theme of each locality.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien - Chieng Le Ward, Son La City:Coming to the 2025 Son La City Ban Flower Festival today, Chieng Le Ward, we send a cultural camp space imbued with the cultural identity of the Thai ethnic group. The highlight of our camp is the Ban flowers and Pieu scarves symbolizing the loyal and gentle Thai girls and also imbued with the traditional cultural identity of the Thai ethnic group. Through the camp space, we want to promote the cultural beauty of the ethnic people in the ward as well as the ethnic people of Son La province.
In the Cultural Camp booths, cultural spaces are displayed and introduced in costumes, cuisine, and traditional musical instruments; agricultural products, handicrafts, OCOP products, agricultural products, and local medicinal herbs are promoted.
Mr. Leo Van Tinh - Vice Chairman of People's Committee of Hua La commune, Son La city:Coming to the 2025 Son La city Ban flower festival, Hua La commune arranged local agricultural products such as 5-star OCOP standard products such as coffee of Bich Thao cooperative, secondly, agricultural products such as vegetables, fruits and local specialties to promote this festival and is an opportunity for Hua La commune to promote the local key products for domestic and foreign friends to know.
The highlight is that communes and wards organize exchange activities and perform cultural activities in the cultural camp space, such as: Singing, dancing, folk games, experiencing brocade weaving, drinking rice wine, bringing new and unique experiences, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to visit and experience.
Robbie – Tourist from New York City:This is the first time I have come to Son La, I visited the booths and saw that the products were very diverse and rich, from traditional costumes to agricultural products. This trip left me with many impressions about this place.
Each cultural booth in the Son La city Ban flower festival has its own uniqueness, but all aim to promote and introduce the diversity in traditional customs and cultural beauty of the 12 ethnic groups in Son La. Through the Cultural Camp space, visitors will be introduced to the potentials, strengths of culture and agricultural products of the Northwest region./.
Performed by: Nguyen Trang - Do Trang