The First International Tea Festival – Thai Nguyen, Vietnam 2011 closed at the Nui Coc Lake tourist site in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on November 15.
At the closing ceremony, the organizing board presented awards to individuals and organizations for their great contributions to developing the tea industry.
Visitors to the seven-day event had unforgettable memories of tea-related activities, art performances, a beauty contest, a photo exhibition, and a cuisine festival.
Besides, an international conference on tea was also held to provide an overall view of Vietnam’s tea products and tea-drinking culture.
The festival attracted the participation of 30 tea enterprises of the Vietnam Tea Association, and 25 domestic trading and processing businesses and 50 famous tea villages in Thai Nguyen, along with foreign tea producers from six countries, namely China, India, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka and Laos.