Nha Trang ready for 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival

These days, the bustling atmosphere is taking place in many places in the coastal city of Nha Trang with activities and events in the 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture  Festival. Especially, the 3 main events of the festival will take place from June 7 to 9 at the April 2 Square.

The 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival with nearly 40 activities, events of performing arts, culture, festivals, sports competitions, cuisine, environmental protection... takes place throughout the end of May to the end of June. In particular, the peak time of events will take place from June 7 to 9, including 3 main events: "Nha Trang say Hi" music show; international cultural exchange program; and carnival parade. According to Dao Duy Thien Bao - General Director of the "Nha Trang say Hi" music show, up to now, the preparation work for this music event has been more than 95% complete. All tasks have been completed on schedule. Specifically, the program stage with a width of 70m, depth of 50m, height of 30m has been installed.

The stage will host 3 main events of the 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival at April 2 Square.

The "Nha Trang say Hi" music show will have the performance of singers from the program "Anh trai say Hi" such as Duc Phuc, Issac, Anh Tu, Pham Anh Duy, Vu Thinh..., along with singers who are loved by the audience including: Ly Ly, Khanh Chi, Satila Hong Vinh, Pham Anh Khoa, FB Boiz band, DJ Tina, MC Vasco MC Thien Vu and MC Ninh Hoang Ngan. Besides, there will be nearly 300 artists, actors from art troupes; students from some schools in Nha Trang city. Taking place on the evening of June 8, the international cultural exchange program will feature performances by artists from Ulsan City (Korea); Lorient City (France); Hai Dang Song and Dance Troupe; Ninh Thuan Province Cultural and Arts Center and beauties in the top 15 of the Miss Sea and Islands Vietnam 2025 contest. During the program, the audience will enjoy many performances with typical regional colors such as: Khanh Hoa - Future City; Love of Pottery Village; Kate Festival Drum; Khanh Hoa Together with Song; Tonight's Stone Instrument; Gangnam Style; It's Raining Men; K.Pop Dance; Ao Dai fashion show; Bagpipe performance by French artists; Caroline song... The carnival parade will take place on the evening of June 9, with the participation of 1,200 extras and 15 flower cars representing localities of the two provinces of Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan. The floats will start at 5 p.m., going along Tran Phu Street from the coastal park opposite Tue Tinh Street to Yen Phi Park. Along with that, there will be a parade of 45 beauties participating in Miss Cosmo Vietnam 2025 from Nha Trang Center to April 2 Square. At 7:30 p.m., the floats and beauties will gather at April 2 Square to perform an art performance and judge the Carnival parade costume design.

According to Nguyen Van Nhuan - Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in the past few days, there have been sports competitions and community festivals in the 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival organized by the department and the People's Committee of Nha Trang City. These activities are all organized on a large scale, creating a vibrant effect before the main events of the festival. With activities and events, especially the 3 main events, all have been carefully prepared, ensuring progress, aiming to bring to the people and tourists quality programs, grand scale, creating strong impressions. In addition, the department has also mobilized tourism businesses to proactively organize their own activities, events or hang banners, slogans in response to the festival.

Many units and enterprises have also joined to successfully implementing the activities and events they host. In particular, Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company has invested in building a large-scale stage in the Salanganes Nest Park area to serve the ceremony to honor the national cultural heritage of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest (taking place on the evening of June 4). Along with that, the company also organized a large-scale, meaningful art performance program to contribute to honoring and promoting the profession of exploiting and processing salanganes nests; salanganes nest products; salanganes nest culture; and salanganes nest workers. The provincial Military Command has actively contacted and coordinated with relevant agencies and units to remove obstacles in the process of organizing high-altitude fireworks displays.

Participating in the 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival, Khanh Hoa Newspaper, as the press agency of the province, has made efforts to inform and introduce the festival in the past time. In addition to reporting, writing articles, and making reports on the activities and events that have taken place, the news agency has also deployed propaganda through many modern press products on print newspapers, electronic newspapers, television, radio, and its social platforms. “Along with information and propaganda, Khanh Hoa Newspaper was also assigned to conduct live broadcasts on KTV about the “Nha Trang say Hi” music show; carnival parade; Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest national cultural heritage honoring ceremony. In particular, Khanh Hoa Newspaper also coordinated with a number of agencies, units and enterprises to organize the Victory Challenge Sailun Cup 2025 Sports and Off-Road Racing Tournament. This is the first sports and off-road racing tournament held in the Central coastal region. In general, Khanh Hoa Newspaper's preparations for each work content in the 2025 Sea Tourism - Culture Festival were carried out carefully, with the highest sense of responsibility”, said Ms. Thai Thi Le Hang - Editor-in-Chief of Khanh Hoa Newspaper. In its first organization, with certain changes, the Sea Tourism - Culture Festival promises to bring to the people and tourists in the coastal city of Nha Trang truly vibrant and impressive summer days.

GIANG ĐINH

Translated by T.T