Keo Pagoda Festival  ( take place in the North ) Date from : October 8, 2003 to 10/10/2003( or 13/9 to September 9, Lunar calendar)

Keo Pagoda belongs to Duy Nhat Village in Vu Thu District, Thai Binh Province. The festival is held in honour of Buddhist dignitary Duong Khong Lo, the man who cured King Le from a serious illness. The participants take part in many religious rites, customs, and rites, as well as in many games and artistic performances reflecting the lifestyle of the population living along rivers. The activities bear the distinctive traits of the agricultural community of the North Vietnamese Delta. Keo Pagoda belongs to Duy Nhat Village in Vu Thu District, Thai Binh Province. The festival is held in honour of Buddhist dignitary Duong Khong Lo, the man who cured King Le from a serious illness. The participants take part in many religious rites, customs, and rites, as well as in many games and artistic performances reflecting the lifestyle of the population living along rivers. The activities bear the distinctive traits of the agricultural community of the North Vietnamese Delta.

Kate Festival  ( take place in the North ) Date from : September 25, 2003 to 5/10/2003( or 29/8 to September 9, Lunar calendar)

This is the biggest and the most joyful festival in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces, where live many Cham people.
The ceremony takes place at Poklong Garai Tower, Po Rome Tower, Po Nugar Tower Temple, on the 1st of July according to the Cham calendar (corresponding to August or September by the Lunar calendar). The ceremony is held in commemoration of the national heroes, the ancestors, the deities, as well as King Poklong and King Porome of the Champa kingdom.
People from surrounding areas gather at the towers to attend the ceremony, which is simple but of great significance. After the teacher has read excerpts from Taoist books, and the holy man has observed certain rituals in the courtyard, they will enter the tower to witness the female medium and the holy man washing, and changing clothes of King Poklong Garai’s stone statue, and saying prayers and singing folk songs. After the rituals, there are singing and dancing performances on the river, and worshipping rituals take place in front of the main temple and its surroundings.