Travel to Mekong river in Vietnam

The traditional Ok Om Bok Festival is annually celebrated on the full-moon day (the 15thday) of the middle Winter ( in the tenth month in Vietnamese Lunar Calendar) to show the Khmer ethnic people’s gratitude to the Moon Goddess for giving them rich aquatic sources and a bumper harvest. An Giang, Kien Giang, Can Tho, Tra Vinh and Vinh Long on mekong river travel. In the circle of one year, the festival is one of the Khmer’s three typical festivals.

After that, on Ba Om Lake, they hold a colorful and sparkling lantern ceremony. In the circle of one year, the festival is one of the Khmer’s three typical festivals. These lanterns are believed to bring bad luck and risk far away from Khmer people. 

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Every year, it is this colorful ceremony that attracts a large number of both local and tourist viewers. People also flocked to downtown Soc Trang for watching traditional games and sports and going shopping at trade fairs. In every Ngo long boat with 1 – 1.4 meter in width and 25-30 meters in length, there are about 40 to 60 boatmen together with a leader at the top guiding the whole team. Overall, the important festival in Khmer people’s life of Ok Om Bok is now becoming the icon of aspiration, beautiful soul and rich emotional life of people to supernatural forces.