Gia Lai launches weekend coffee and culture market to boost tourism in 2026

An art program celebrating the 24th Vietnam Poetry Day opened on 2 March at the Twin Towers Relic Site in Quy Nhon Ward, drawing provincial leaders, artists and a large audience.

A charity concert in Gia Lai Province raised more than 300 million VND (approximately 12,000 USD) on March 1, generating funds for community development, education support, and disaster relief efforts in the region and other localities.

Residents of the coastal community of Nhơn Hải opened their annual Thanh Minh Festival on 27 February with a series of ancestral rites at the Phương Mai communal house, maintaining traditions passed down through generations.

Gia Lai province opened its annual Khai Sơn Cầu Ngư (Mountain opening and whale worship) Festival on February 25, bringing thousands of residents and visitors to the Lăng Ông Nam Hải - Vạn Đầm Xương Lý in the Lý Chánh quarter of Quy Nhơn Đông ward.

The People’s Committee of Gia Lai has issued Plan No. 78/KH-UBND outlining a series of initiatives for 2026 to preserve and promote the value of the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space heritage.

The anniversaries of the Tây Sơn peasant movement and the Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa victory have renewed attention on Emperor Thái Đức Nguyễn Nhạc, the leader who initiated the 1771 uprising and laid the political foundations for the Tây Sơn dynasty. 

Beneath long-standing bamboo groves in Nhơn Hòa, a commune in An Nhơn, memories of village life linger in the aroma of Bàu Đá rice wine, an enduring symbol of a land shaped by centuries of change.

Traditional bài chòi performances energized spring festivals across Tuy Phước commune and Quy Nhơn city during the Lunar New Year, drawing crowds of residents and tourists to the region’s rustic bamboo huts, poetry-infused melodies and rhythmic bamboo clappers.

A rare 11th-century Cham sandstone relief unearthed in the south-central province of Bình Định is offering fresh insight into the region’s martial past, featuring one of the most dynamic portrayals of war horses found in Champa art. 

Following an administrative merger set to take effect on July 1, 2025, Gia Lai province will span 21,576 square kilometres, becoming the country’s second largest province, with a population of 3.5 million. 

(GLO) – After turning 30, Gia Lai-born actress Lê Hạ Anh has chosen not to chase the dazzling spotlight, but instead quietly makes her mark through deeply nuanced roles.

Crowds gathered in the early spring mist on the first morning of the Lunar New Year for the annual Gò Market Spring Festival, a centuries-old fair where trade is guided less by profit than by wishes for peace and prosperity.

Thousands of residents and visitors gathered at two central squares in Gia Lai province on the evening of February 16 to welcome the Year of the Horse 2026 with a New Year’s Eve art program and a 15-minute fireworks display.

As the Year of the Horse 2026 approaches, practitioners in the martial arts heartland of Gia Lai are reflecting on a symbol that has shaped their discipline for centuries: the warhorse.

Gia Lai province’s traditional brocade weaving is gaining new commercial momentum as Bahnar and Jrai artisans transform heritage craft into certified market products under Vietnam’s One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme.

Schools across Gia Lai province are recreating traditional Lunar New Year celebrations on campus, combining hands-on cultural activities with fundraising initiatives to support disadvantaged students.

In a small home in Lam Truc 2 neighborhood, old glass bottles are being transformed into intricate miniature worlds.

The People’s Committee of Quy Nhon Ward inaugurated the Year of the Horse 2026 mascot cluster at Victory Square on February 6, marking the launch of cultural activities celebrating the Party and Lunar New Year.

Gia Lai province has received two newly designated national treasures, a collection of gold worship objects from the An Phú Cham Tower and the Kơ Đơ gong set, under a decision issued by Vietnam’s Prime Minister on 3 February.

Pleiku authorities on February 5 installed a new eight horses mascot cluster at Đại Đoàn Kết Square, completing one of the key decorative highlights planned ahead of the 2026 Year of the Horse (Bính Ngọ).

Gia Lai Province has unveiled a comprehensive plan to revive and promote festivals, rituals and performances linked to the gong cultural heritage of the Bahnar, Jrai, Cham and H’rê ethnic groups, as part of its 2026-2030 preservation project.

The Pleiku Museum will display images, documents and artifacts from the Rộc Tưng - Gò Đá early paleolithic archaeological site on February 20-21, coinciding with the fourth and fifth days of the Lunar New Year and the festival marking the 237th anniversary of the Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa Victory.

The Gia Lai Provincial Museum and the Quang Trung Museum are undertaking extensive upgrades ahead of the 2026 Lunar New Year, preparing refreshed exhibition spaces, landscaped grounds, and improved visitor services to meet the surge of holiday tourists.

The annual spring harvest of teng leng flowers and young leaves continues to sustain the culinary heritage of the Jrai people in Gia Lai province, where villagers gather the wild plant each year from January to mid-March.