PANO - Mau Son tourist site in Lang Son province on January 10th will host the 2015 Mau Son Winter Tourism Festival with a variety of activities and traditional dishes.

A picture of Mau Son. Photo: dulichninhbinh.com.vn

The festival, co-organized by the Vietnam National Tourism Administration, the Vietnam Federation of UNESCO Associations, and Lang Son provincial People’s Committee, will introduce to tourists specialties of Lang Son province, images of and documents relating to historical and cultural relics on Mau Son Mountain and folk games.

Mau Son is famous for it picturesque beauty with pure air and typical cultural space of ethnic minority groups of Dao, Nung and Tay. On the top of Mau Son, archeologists found many stone structures dating back the Iron Age.

Located 30km northeastern Lang Son city, the mountain is sometimes covered with snow in winter.

The festival, held for the first time, is hoped to attract more tourists and investors to the Mau Son tourist site to partly promote Lang Son province’s tourism.

Translated by Ngoc Bich