Central City of Nha Trang set to host sea festival in June

Nha Trang Sea Festival 2015 (Photo: news.zing.vn)

The 2017 Nha Trang Sea Festival, with the theme Extending the Circle of Friendship, will be held in the central province of Khanh Hoa from June 10 to 13 with 50 arts, cultural and sporting activities, the Khanh Hoa People’s Committee has announced.

It will include a street festival, lion and dragon dances, a fishing competition, and a cooking contest. Chefs from Nha Trang Tourism College will attempt to make the largest ever seafood hotpot in Viet Nam as recognised by the Viet Nam Guinness Organisation.

The biennial event will also feature a beach volleyball tournament, a beach football tournament, and various folk games such as walking on stilts, human chess and skipping.

The festival will see performances of art troupes from the provinces of Dak Lak, Thua Thien – Hue and Bac Lieu as well as five foreign troupes from Spain, France, the Republic of Korea, Australia and Russia.

The festival is expected to welcome around 150,000 visitors.