The Vietnamese New Year begins on January 1, according to the lunar calendar. It's called Lunar New Year. This is the biggest traditional festival of the year for Vietnamese people. It is the intersection point between the old year and the new year, it represents the cohesion in the community, clan and family.
Lunar New Year is also an opportunity to return to the roots. It is a spiritual value, as well as a deep emotional value of the Vietnamese people, which has become a good tradition. Reading this far, you must have gradually answered the question: Where do Vietnamese travel on motorbike at the beginning of the year? Those are places towards spiritual values and roots.
To find out more, follow Frontier Travel to learn about these places in the Vietnam motorcycle Tour!
Where do Vietnamese travel at the beginning of the year?
The answer is: Spring travel or spring travel to pick up fortune, sightseeing, temple ceremonies, festivals. For each traveling to the pagoda at the beginning of the year is a traditional culture that has been formed for a long time, creating a colorful picture in an advanced culture imbued with national identity.
Traveling to the temple at the beginning of the year is a spiritual activity not to be missed by Vietnamese. Surely when you travel here you will also be surprised to see that the streets of Hanoi can become deserted, with few motorbikes. Because motorbikes went with their owners to their hometown to reunite with their families.
However, if you travel to Vietnam around the 3rd or 5th. When you visit the temples and pagodas on the Vietnam motorbike tour, you will surely see that motorbikes have gradually flocked to other spring travel destinations. So what are those destinations?
Famous Spring Festival near Hanoi
Bai Dinh - Trang An
A very familiar place for many motorbike tourists in the Hanoi motorcycle tour itinerary. Bai Dinh Pagoda is one of the spiritual destinations that attracts a large number of motorbike tourists every early spring. This place always welcomes thousands of tourists to visit and worship every year. Bai Dinh Pagoda is recorded with the most records in Vietnam such as: the temple with the largest gilded bronze Buddha in Asia, the temple with the most Arhat statues in Vietnam and the longest Arhat corridor in Asia. The temple has the largest bronze Maitreya Buddha in Southeast Asia,...
Tourism activities in Bai Dinh - Trang An complex
If you have the opportunity to visit Ninh Binh, besides going to the New Year's temple ceremony by motorbike at Bai Dinh pagoda, you can also visit Trang An scenic complex. Visitors will be able to drop their souls on the oars, breathe and feel the nature of Trang An, where the wonderful nature blends between majestic mountains and poetic rivers.
Opening ceremony of Tam Chuc pagoda
A place not too far from Hanoi, you can absolutely try to travel by motorbike from Hanoi to the temple. Tam Chuc Pagoda is one of the most popular tourist destinations for motorbikes at the beginning of the year. Like "Ha Long Bay" on land, Tam Chuc tourist area has become a destination that many people are looking for. This place is located in Ba Sao town, Kim Bang district, Ninh Binh province.
In the early days of spring, tens of thousands of tourists have come back to sightsee, visit, and go to the New Year's ceremony at the world's largest temple. The landscape in Tam Chuc tourist area is very unique and diverse that not everywhere can be. From the main temple, overlooking the immense lake. In the lake bed there are six mountains like bells and seven high mountains corresponding to seven bright stars. Certainly, when completed, Tam Chuc Pagoda will attract a large number of tourists to visit and go to the New Year's ceremony.
Huong Pagoda Festival - Vietnam motorbike tour
One of the first motorbike tours that cannot be missed in the North is going to the Perfume Pagoda. Every spring, visitors come to Huong Pagoda to pray for peace for themselves, for their family and for their friends.
The complex of scenic Huong Pagoda was built including many temples, pagodas, communal houses worshiping Buddha and gods in Buddhist beliefs of the Vietnamese people. The Perfume Pagoda Festival is usually held on the 6th day of the first lunar month and lasts until the third lunar month.
In addition to visiting the temple to pray for peace and fortune, visitors can visit and admire the pagoda. Visitors taking a boat down the Yen River will enjoy the vast space of the riverbanks.
Tay Thien Festival
Tay Thien Festival is held on the full moon day of the second lunar month every year at Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen Monastery. Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen Monastery is located in Tay Thien scenic area in Tam Dao district, Vinh Phuc province. This is one of the first festivals chosen by most tourists in the Vietnam motorcycle tour.
Traveling by motorbike during Tet to visit Tay Thien Tam Dao is an extremely interesting experience, combining spring travel, sightseeing, rest and relaxation with spring nature. Not only attracted by the charming landscape, overlapping mountains, and unique architecture leaning against the mountain, Tay Thien is also a destination in spring. Traveling here, you will have the opportunity to visit the festival to pray for fortune and luck for the whole year and participate in many unique cultural activities of the Vietnamese.
Quoc Tu Giam Temple
Join the Hanoi motorbike tour, then this is not a strange place anymore. But if you want to change the atmosphere, you can visit the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam at the beginning of this year.
As the first university in Vietnam, the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam (Hanoi) has now become a symbol of Vietnamese knowledge, studiousness and respect for religion. That's why every spring, scholars from all over the country, from toddlers in grade 1 to professors with gray hair, flock here.
Visit the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam to remember great teachers such as Chu Van An, the Ly and Le dynasties who contributed to the development of Vietnam's education industry. With respect and gratitude to their predecessors, the scholars also come here to pray for a successful academic year and pass exams.
Outstanding activities when traveling to Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam
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Other outstanding activities when visiting the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam are visiting 82 turtle stone steles engraved with the names of Vietnamese Confucian doctors; Watch the game of human chess and ask for the first letter of the year. In particular, even if they have to wait in long lines along the courtyard of Thai Hoc House, everyone wants to be able to ask for letters written by the masters at the Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam.
I was so absorbed in giving out motorcycle tourist destinations at the beginning of the year that I forgot the post was too long. One article will certainly not be able to highlight the places and festivals at the beginning of this year. Frontier Travel will update more locations in the next post. We hope you have a great Vietnam motorcycle tour.
