These days, a large number of programs and events dedicated to children are being held in hotels, resorts and amusement parks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. In order to create an outstanding playground which is useful, practical, safe and stylishly-designed for children, Indochina Plaza Hanoi Center (at 241 Xuan Thuy Street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi) held a program named “Children Day Festival” from 9am to 21pm on May 31st 2014. Especially, the entrance ticket is free for children.
Representative of organizing committee stated that through games of movement, art and wisdom, children will have the chance to learn about the ocean world which still hides many surprises and secret to them. It is an interesting highlight of the program.
Also use ocean world as the highlight, Vinpearl Aquarium in Times City Hanoi, the largest-scale aquarium of Vietnam, has attracted children and their parents to special programs on occasion of Children Day Festival. Visiting here, children will take a firsthand look at unique creatures of the sea which they have never seen in real life before. A tourist has shared that she sought information about this park on the internet and found out that here is the first place in Vietnam to have Antarctic penguins. The aquarium also possesses a “touch tank” where kids are allowed to touch to satisfy their curiosity. Through such activities, Vinpearl Aquarium provides children with a treasure of knowledge about the ocean with lively and fascinating footages.
Another spot which attracts a large number of Vietnamese children in recent days is indoor amusement park Playtime at 4th floor Lotte Mart (Mipec Building, Tay Son Street, Hanoi). There are many intelligence games suitable for children such as puzzle, assembly, designing house models, obstacle course games, and so on. Children will participate in all games in a very safe space with only 70,000 VND.
In addition to activities in commercial centers and hotels, families and children also offered with circus performances. In Hanoi, Vietnam Circus Federation are welcoming Children Day and 2014 summer by a new special circus program which is the combination of mysterious fairy tales and circuses named “Egyptian Myths” and “the story about Hamura Princess”.
Meanwhile, in Ho Chi Minh City, the program themed “Be a painter – Children’s Night Festival” takes place in the poetic garden space of Continental Saigon Hotel with the entrance ticket of 150 thousand VND (including drawing tools and, juice and snack). Activities of the drawing contest starts in the morning, and in the evening, children will be immersed in joyful atmosphere of the festival under the sparkling light and colorful pinwheels with unique art programs and puppet repertoires by Southern Arts Theater. Continental Saigon Hotel is an ideal place for Children Day activities in Ho Chi Minh City.