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The Full Moon festival
The Full Moon festival
The full moon of the third lunar month (usually late April or early May) brings the biggest festival of the Nguồn people of old Minh Hóa, a national intangible heritage since 2024. It is held in neighbouring Minh Hóa commune: incense at Thác Bụt waterfall, the once-a-year Rằm market with pồi, snails and grilled fish, tug-of-war, stilts, crossbows, and folk singing under the moon.
- DoSpend the day at the festival, sleep in a Tân Hóa floating house, see Yên Phú lake next morning
- 2027Exact dates to be announced
- CavesA good season for Tú Làn and Rục Mòn
April – May
Where to go this season
Tân HóaTân Hóa Floating Village
Vietnam's floating village of the Nguồn people, a UN Tourism Best Tourism Village 2023. Sleep in a floating house, cycle the Rào Nan.
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Yên PhúYên Phú lake
A still lake ringed by peaks, where the Kong crew built a set in 2016. Camp for dawn mist and sunset.
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Tân HóaTú Làn cave system
25+ surveyed caves. Wade rivers and swim underground; Rat Cave was a Kong: Skull Island set. Licensed tours only.
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