The 6th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival to come in Dak Lak Province

5th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival 2015

On 6 February, in Ha Noi, the Central Highlands Steering Committee in collaboration with the Dak Lak People’s Committee organized the press conference on the 6th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival and Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival 2017.

With the theme “Converging quintessence – Promoting identity – Linking to develop”, the 6th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival will be held from 8-13 March 2017 in Buon Ma Thuot City.

In the framework of the festival, the Central Highlands Gong Festival and the 4th Central Highlands Investment Promotion Conference will be organized.

The opening ceremony will take place at 8 pm on 10 March 2017 at 10/3 Square and will be live broadcast on VTV1, VTV5 and VTV8 of Viet Nam Television.

During the festival, there will be many exciting activities, including: specialized exhibition of coffee; street festival; farming contest; elephant race festival; free coffee…

The Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival 2017 will feature rituals of ethnic minorities associated with performing gongs; wood carving contest; the exhibition on Buon Ma Thuot coffee, gong culture and heritage…

The 4th Central Highlands Investment Promotion Conference will be organized on 11 March to promote trade and tourism of the Central Highlands provinces.

The festival aims to promote the brand of Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and enhance awareness of preserving and developing the identity of local ethnic groups of Central Highlands, especially the value of the space of gong culture which was recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity since 2005.