Ha Giang launches first buckwheat festival
VGP – Under the theme “The Karst Plateau – Thousand blooming flowers,” the first-ever buckwheat festival was kicked off yesterday and will last until November 15.
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The festival targets to promote special cultural values of the Dong Van Karst Plateau and to attract visitors and develop the buckwheat flower into a tourism brand of the karst plateau and also Ha Giang province.
The buckwheat (Fagopyrum Esculentum) plant grows in clusters of small, pinkish-white flowers and produces triangular, edible seeds. The ethnic Mong group cultivates two crops of buckwheat every year in the area. The flowers are sensitive to sunlight, changing their colour from white in the early morning to pink in the afternoon.
In addition, the festival consists of exhibitions, a wine festival, a Mong pan-pipe festival and a handful of contests related to the flower during the four-day event.
A photo exhibition opened the string of activities in Dong Van old quarter with 50 photos capturing landscapes, daily life and farming./.
By Kim Anh
