To promote the propaganda activities of Buon Don Ethnic Traditional Festivals in 2016, a planned program of festival’s activities including contents, time and venues for each activity has just issued by the People’s Committee of Buon Don District.
The Festival is going to be kicked off on 12th March with a wide range of activities such as river wharf worship, worship the health of elephants (taken place from 14:00 to 16:00 at Bay Rong river wharf in Krong Na commune); the Festival’s Opening Ceremony in combination with the Gala of Arts Performance from 20:15 to 20:30. On Mar 13, some highlighted activities will be taken place like: the elephants participating in the competition of playing football and running in the morning; worshiping to the health of elephants and elephants participating in the competition of swimming across Serepok River in the afternoon. In the morning of 14th March, the Festival will be formally closed as well as grant prizes for the contestants in activities.

The Buon Don Ethnic Traditional Festival promotes tourism potential of the province.
“The Festival has been considered as a district’s major cultural event in 2016. Currently, relevant units have been actively cooperating with the People's Committee of Buon Don district to ensure that the Festival would be safeguarded the security, meaningfulness, and in line with the government regulations, especially under the Circular No. 15/2015/TT-BVHTTDL dated 22nd Dec, 2015 of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on festival organization”, according to Mr. Bui Van Khoi - Head of Cultural Professional Division, Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Apart from the mentioned activities, several auxiliary activities will also be appeared such as ethnic traditional cuisine contest, exhibition of wild elephants hunting and taming tools, worshiping to new rice (celebration of the season), rice pounding competition, sport activities, and camping. In addition, the Third Gala of Gong culture, folk music, traditional dances, traditional music instruments and performing ethnic traditional costumes will be organized in Buon Don District in this Festival;
The Traditional Cultural Festival of Ethnics in 2016 shall make a significant contribution to the preservation and promotion of the unique ethnic traditional cultural characteristics , socio-economic development and strengthen the national great unity bloc.
(Detailed program attached)
The Su