More than 200 Khmer dignitaries, monks, nuns and people from Mekong Delta localities flocked to Can

More than 200 Khmer dignitaries, monks, nuns and people from Mekong Delta localities flocked to Can Tho City to celebrate the Sene Dolta Festival. This year’s Sene Dolta Festival is being held from the 29th day of the 8th lunar month to the first day of the 9th lunar month, which falls on October 8-10.

The event is the 2nd largest annual festival after the Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) of the Khmer people in the Mekong Delta. Local Khmer people have gathered at pagodas to pray for bumper crops and pay tributes to their ancestors, and enjoy traditional song and dance performances and other light-hearted activities after a hard working year. To mark the occasion, leaders of Tra Vinh Province visited and presented gifts to 25 pagodas and 95 families of the Khmer group in the province. Meanwhile, an ox race was held in An Giang Province on October 9 with over 30,000 local people and domestic and foreign visitors coming to watch.

The majority of the Khmer population, around 1.3 million people, is living in the southwestern region, which has 453 Khmer pagodas that are home to almost 10,000 monks and nuns.

(Source: VNA)

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