Tet fun minority style at Ethnology Museum

A swing game which will be played at the Ethnology Museum in Hanoi Photo: The organizers

Discover Vietnam’s minority tribes in person at the Ethnology Museum at Nguyen Van Huyen Street in Hanoi during Tet from February 6 to 8.

For the first time, Raglai people from Ninh Thuan Province, Dao and Na Mieo from Lang Son Province will all come to introduce their colorful culture, music, dances and indigenous festivals to Hanoi. Visitors will be able to see Lion dances of Nung people, gong performances of Raglai and the bamboo dance of Thai people on the same stage.

Other attractions include water puppet shows, calligraphy demonstrations and artists from Dong Ho painting village who will show you how to paint the folk characters that have made their village famous.

Many ethnic folk games will be played. Kids can have fun with traditional toys such as pin wheel, to he (figurines fashioned from colored rice dough), flowers and fruits made of dough, 12 animal designations made of clay. Guests can enjoy many kinds of food.

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Kontum’s unofficial ethnology museum

Dakbla Restaurant in Kon Tum Province, which is famous for its waterfalls and ethnic villages, is an interesting place to recharge the batteries with a meal and a coffee, because of the restaurant’s collection of antiques and cultural artifacts of the local ethnic people.

Many artifacts are on display at the restaurant. They are objects that are used in the daily life of local ethnic people, giving tourists an insight into communities such as Bahna, Ede, Gia Rai and M’Nong.

Ho Cong Van, the owner of the restaurant, has collected the artifacts since the 80s when he taught literacy to the tribes. There are shields of Xedang people, bamboo chairs and animal leather of Gie Rieng people, masks of the Ede as well as many gongs, hunting knives, old statues and a shirt made of tree bark.

Seen from outside, the restaurant, at 168 Nguyen Hue Street, Kontum Town in the highland province, looks like other normal restaurants. Dakbla is the name of the river that passes through town. Visitors to Kontum often hire wooden boats to explore the river and surrounds. - Photos: Kinh Luan

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Dakbla Restaurant in Kon Tum Province, which is famous for its waterfalls and ethnic villages, is an interesting place to recharge the batteries with a meal and a coffee, because of the restaurant’s collection of antiques and cultural artifacts of the local ethnic people.

Many artifacts are on display at the restaurant. They are objects that are used in the daily life of local ethnic people, giving tourists an insight into communities such as Bahna, Ede, Gia Rai and M’Nong.

Ho Cong Van, the owner of the restaurant, has collected the artifacts since the 80s when he taught literacy to the tribes. There are shields of Xedang people, bamboo chairs and animal leather of Gie Rieng people, masks of the Ede as well as many gongs, hunting knives, old statues and a shirt made of tree bark.

Seen from outside, the restaurant, at 168 Nguyen Hue Street, Kontum Town in the highland province, looks like other normal restaurants. Dakbla is the name of the river that passes through town. Visitors to Kontum often hire wooden boats to explore the river and surrounds. - Photos: Kinh Luan

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Kontum’s unofficial ethnology museum

Dakbla Restaurant in Kon Tum Province, which is famous for its waterfalls and ethnic villages, is an interesting place to recharge the batteries with a meal and a coffee, because of the restaurant’s collection of antiques and cultural artifacts of the local ethnic people.

Many artifacts are on display at the restaurant. They are objects that are used in the daily life of local ethnic people, giving tourists an insight into communities such as Bahna, Ede, Gia Rai and M’Nong.

Ho Cong Van, the owner of the restaurant, has collected the artifacts since the 80s when he taught literacy to the tribes. There are shields of Xedang people, bamboo chairs and animal leather of Gie Rieng people, masks of the Ede as well as many gongs, hunting knives, old statues and a shirt made of tree bark.

Seen from outside, the restaurant, at 168 Nguyen Hue Street, Kontum Town in the highland province, looks like other normal restaurants. Dakbla is the name of the river that passes through town. Visitors to Kontum often hire wooden boats to explore the river and surrounds. - Photos: Kinh Luan

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