Supporting visitors to Con Son – Kiep Bac Spring Festival

During the festival, there will be one or two permanent employees at each station to provide tourist information; support visitors in such cases as losing of property or papers, straying, etc.; display books, newspapers, leaflets, and magazines introducing famous landscapes and the historical, cultural, and architectural value of structures in the relic complex; give advice on some tours connecting Con Son – Kiep Bac to other relics in Chi Linh provincial town; etc.

At Con Son relic site, there are about 20 restaurants ready to serve visitors to Con Son – Kiep Bac Spring Festival.

The restaurants can serve 150 – 1,000 guests at the same time with popular meals, including rice, vermicelli, and noodles, and some special food of Chi Linh like fried bee pupas rolled in lolot leaves, dishes made from hill chickens, etc.

Each helping costs VND20,000 – 200,000, not higher than normal days.

At Con Son relic site, there also are three hotels, Lan Anh, Huy Hoang, and Hoang Hao, and several guesthouses. Each of them has 20 – 40 commodious, clean, and affordable rooms.

Tourists can go to the center of Chi Linh provincial town, about 4 – 5 km away from the relic site, to stay at other hotels.

Some hotels offer catering services and have pledged not to invite tourists with insistence or up prices.

There are two offering preparation spots at Con Son relic site and one at Kiep Bac relic site.

At each spot, the Management Unit of Con Son – Kiep Bac Relics has assigned 10 staff members to guide and support visitors and arranged more than 1,000 trays and utensils serving sacrifice offering and 500 sets of ceremony clothes to lend tourists.

The management unit has coordinated with Viettel and Vinaphone to install two free wifi stations to serve tourists at the two relic sites and renovated and arranged many flower and bonsai zones for locals and visitors to the festival to take souvenir photos.

There is a free drinking water spot for tourists at each relic site.

The Management Unit of Con Son – Kiep Bac Relics has collaborated with the police of Chi Linh provincial town and nearby communes and wards to establish a number of spots receiving and handling visitors' feedback related to security and order and three hotlines: 0943.036.299 (Cong Hoa Ward Police), 0915.191.504 (Hung Dao Commune Police), and 0919.348.080 (Management Unit of Con Son – Kiep Bac Relics) to support tourists upon request.

BINH MINH