Holi Festival 2018 in Viet Nam

Holi Festival, also known as the "colorful festival", is one of India's major festivals, as well as Hindu-inhabited nations. This festival marks the end of winter, beginning with the spring, bringing hope for a bountiful harvest, a life of prosperity and happiness. And, Holi Festival is also the festival symbolizes the victory of good before evil. At the same time, it's an opportunity to meet, interact, play with friend, mend their relationship, draw people closer together.

Over the past 10 years, Indian Business Chamber in Vietnam has consistently brought this special festival to Vietnam. And this year, Holi Festival will comeback, promising a colorful and unforgettable festival for all who come!

I - DETAILED INFORMATION

1. Time: 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM (April 1, 2018)

2. Location:  Kinder Park,  614 Lac Long Quan St., Tay Ho Dist., Ha Noi City.

3. Ticket price:

+ Kid (6 - 12 years): 200.000 VND/per (free under 6 years old)

+ Early Bird (till 22th March): 550.000 VND/adult

+ Normal Ticket: 600.000 VND/adult

+ At Gate: 700.000 VND/adult

* NOTE: Come and Drench in color meanwhile enjoy FREE FLOW of Food, Drinks, Henna and Face painting and entertainment – All in One ticket.

4. Activities at the festival:

Come to Holi Festival 2018 in Hanoi, you will have a chance meet each other, joke with a friend, thrown  the color powder, dance, sing and immersed in the vibrant music space with songs of India and Vietnam, enjoy the traditional Indian cuisine, take part in exciting activities like henna drawing, face painting, ...

Guests buy tickets to the festival are distributed with bags of pigments (the flow of colors with many natural plants as Saffron, sandalwood, rose...). It's used to throw and smeared each other.

II -  WHY THE COLOR POWDER IS THROWN IN THE AIR

The colored powder - or gulal - thrown on the second day of the festival comes from the legend of Krishna. Anyone at Holi is fair game to be covered in the perfumed powder as a celebration of Krishna and Radha's love, regardless of age or social status. The powder also signifies the coming of spring and all the new colours it brings to nature.

Historically, the gulal was made of turmeric, paste and flower extracts, but today synthetic versions are largely used.

The four main powder colours are used to represent different things. Red reflects love and fertility, blue is the colour of Krishna, yellow is the colour of turmeric and green symbolises spring and new beginnings.