Parade Route 10/10/10
Sun 10 Oct 2010, 7.55 am
Ba Dinh Square
Parade route and program for the 1000th Anniversary of Thang Long – Ha Noi
Have you got the route of the biggest parade ever in Vietnam with 31,000 people participating? You should not miss this!
From Tuoi Tre Newspaper:
Around 31,000 people are expected to take part in the biggest-ever parade from Ba Dinh Square to 2 directions heading north and south of Ha Noi to celebrate the Grand Anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.
Parade route:
– Torchlight procession from Ho Chi Minh Museum to President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
– A flag-raising ceremony with a 21-gun salute and a speech delivered by President Nguyen Minh Triet.
– Ten helicopters will carry Party flags, national flags and red flags with the slogan “Celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” over Ba Dinh Square to open the military, police and civil defense parade.
A motorcade will follow carrying the Ly dynasty dragon, the Hanoi symbol and the UNESCO certificate to acknowledge the Imperial Citadel as world heritage and 13 groups representing veterans, workers, farmers, the intellectuals, enterprises, youth, women, ethnic minority people, religious organizations, overseas Vietnamese, international guests and the media.
– A 30 minute music performance and 1,000 children will set doves free and release balloons into the air to wrap the parade officially.
Audiences will be able to watch the program live on channels of Vietnam Television. Twenty giant TV screens are set up around the city.
So let me get this right, the ‘route’ alluded to by the title of this post is from the museum to the mausoleum, a grand total of 200meters. Doesn’t sound like a very spectacular route to me.
Why is the program for most of the 1000 year festivities so lacking in detail? Makes it very hard to enjoy.
Good question JK – but not one we can answer.
We did a lot of hunting and were glad to be able to offer the info we did. Its the best we could find.
Yeah JK, I agree, it’s as though the organisers don’t actually want to guide people to reach safe, sensible and spectacular locations. Is it best to let only the privileged few who have been informed enjoy this incredible event, while the masses have to watch from their TV sets?
Thank you to the owners of this post, I think you’ve done a good job of even finding this :)
I’m also sitting at home and reading newspaper :-).
And here are some pictures of the event, the article is in Vietnamese but not so important..
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=153590311346085