Perfume Pagoda Festival 2005 open this month

Chua Huong (Perfume Pagoda) Festival 2005 is to open on February 14 at Vietnam's largest and most famous pagoda. The Chua Huong Festival, the biggest and longest annual festival in Vietnam, opens on February 14, 2005, the sixth day of the first lunar month.

The festival, lasting through three months in spring, attracts hundreds of thousands of Buddhist pilgrims and tourists from all parts of the country, as well as overseas Vietnamese.