For the first time, tourists attending the Chu Dang Ya Wild Sunflower – Volcano Festival will have a chance to experience paragliding. The one-week festival will be held in Chu Dang Ya and Nghia Hung communes in Chu Pah District, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, from November 11-17.
According to the organiser, festival-goers can contemplate the breathtaking landscape created by yellow wild sunflower carpets and majestic mountains from a birds-eye view while flying together with a professional paraglider.
To ensure flight safety, the Gia Lai Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with the Hanoi Paragliding Club to conduct a safety test with paragliding over the Chu Dang Ya extinct volcano.
On November 11 and 12, the Son Tra Paragliding Club members will showcase both paragliding and paramotoring performances.
Along with paragliding, traditional sports games will be held, such as tug of war, stilt walk, and jumping in a sack. Other activities include a running race with the running track passing by famous sightseeing spots, a walking competition to conquer Chu Dang Ya peak and Chu Nam peak, where participants can also enjoy the entire extinct volcano covered in yellow wild sunflowers.
The festival will also feature other cultural activities, such as the demonstration of traditional ethnic rituals, gong performances, and demonstrations of traditional crafts of local Jrai and Ba Na ethnic people.
Artisans from 14 communes and townships in the Chu Pah District will gather to show off their refined skills in bamboo and brocade weaving, wooden sculpture carving, and traditional music instrument crafting.
A demonstration of the new rice celebration, one of the most important rituals of the Jrai ethnic group, will be held on November 12.
The distinctive ethnic culture can be learnt through its gastronomy. Therefore, festival-goers can enjoy several local specialities and famous agricultural products available for sale at the communal house.
Every year, in November, thousands of people flock to the region to enjoy the beautiful landscape when the wild sunflowers bloom, which cover the mountainsides in a bright yellow colour.
Source: VOV5