Bach Dang walking street gets bustling

After being inaugurated, with a beautiful landscape, airy space along the bank of the Saigon River, Bach Dang walking street in Thu Dau Mot city’s Phu Cuong ward is now an ideal destination for locals and tourists. On weekends, there are many attractive cultural and artistic activities on the walking street, increasing its attraction and meeting entertainment needs of people from strata.

Sparkling world of colors

After a hard working day, Nguyen Van Thinh in Thu Dau Mot city’s Phu Cuong ward often takes his wife and children to Bach Dang walking street to get some fresh air and relax. Thinh's 2 children are very excited to come here because there are colorful decorative lights and unique miniatures. Especially, on weekends, going to Bach Dang walking street, Thinh's children can also enjoy artistic creation with paintings on fans, paper, or painting statues of all shapes and sizes.

Children and many young people enjoy their creativity at the children's recreational area on Bach Dang walking street

Not only attracting children, the children's entertainment area on Bach Dang walking street also has many young people who are students of high schools, colleges and universities in the area participating in showing their painting skills. Huynh Thanh Mai and Tran Bich Ngoc, students of Binh Duong University said that they both studied together when being children in Binh Phuoc province. Therefore, they have the same interests and are now studying at the same university. Since Bach Dang walking street has opened this amusement park, every week, they come there to paint statues, paint fans, complementing the collection of colors to make their lodging room more beautiful.

The space here is always bustling, crowded with people in beautiful costumes walking and enjoying a peaceful and cool scenery. Shown on everyone's face are happy eyes, bright smiles and pleasure with many services, games, food and drink available in this area. All create a very vivid colorful picture, contributing to embellishing the cultural beauty - urban civilization of a central city of Binh Duong.

Melody with music

Along with that wonderful space, Bach Dang walking street also has many diverse and attractive cultural and artistic activities. Coming to Binh Duong for a weekend trip, Phan Huu Nhan, a resident of Long An province, had the opportunity to enjoy a street music program performed by students of Thu Dau Mot University. According to him, Bach Dang walking street is not only beautiful, but also a very interesting destination with many convenient services, helping him have a memorable evening with family and friends. Family members can both watch shimmering colors reflected in the water, and immerse themselves in youthful musical melodies, especially love songs and immortal orchestral songs.

According to Dr. Nguyen Thi Luu An, Director of Thu Dau Mot University’s Music Department of Faculty of Cultural Industry, the street music performance program at Bach Dang walking street is organized by the city’s Center for Culture, Information and Sports in collaboration with Thu Dau Mot University to create a useful playground for students, develop the music sector and spread the music art to students throughout the school. This activity also contributes to improving the spiritual and cultural life and understanding about the aesthetic value that music brings to life through cultural and artistic exchanges with the masses of Thu Dau Mot city in particular and Binh Duong in general. These activities also give practical information about the school's training goals as well as sharing and spreading achievements and values ​​that the school has achieved and contributed to the society over the past time.

Nguyen Van Phuong, Director of Thu Dau Mot city’s Center for Culture, Information and Sports said that in order to contribute to well realizing the campaign of "Building civilized urban and cultural lifestyle"; propagandize, promote landscape works along the Saigon River, combining with walking street, night market, cultural space, walking space, art enjoyment for people and visitors..., Thu Dau Mot city’s Center for Culture, Information and Sports will coordinate with relevant units to organize many cultural and artistic programs on Bach Dang walking street every week. This is to create conditions for various types of culture and art to come closer to locals and tourists, meeting the increasing demand for cultural and spiritual enjoyment of people from all strata.

Reported by Thuc Van-Translated by Kim Tin