The Perfume Pagoda Festival is starting on the sixth day of the lunar January month ( or February 5) and is celebrated for three months, from the first to third lunar month of each year.

Around 5,000 boats have been granted licences to operate on the Yen Stream, in addition to 14 large-scale restaurants able to serve up to 60,000 people, have also been established. In addition to the three current entrances, the organisation board has added a new entrance on Hang Vo street to help visitors access the site. Perfume Pagoda Festival to wow visitors in 2014

The Perfume Pagoda festival is considered the greatest Buddhist festival in the North of Vietnam, playing an important role in the spiritual life of Vietnamese people and Vietnamese Buddhists in particular.

The festival takes place in Perfume Pagoda in Huong Son Commune, My Duc District, about 70 km from centre of Hanoi to the south. The three-month-long festival will welcome hundreds of thousands visitors.

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