VietNamNet Bridge – The third Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival closed on March 15 evening with seven national records recognized by the Vietnam Record Book Center.

 

Boat race at the coffee festival
The records consist of: The largest coffee festival; the largest Central Highland street parade; the largest coffee filter; the biggest book with the cover made by coffee gnarl; the book with the smallest number of copies; director of the largest installation art show by coffee nuts, and the largest coffee museum in Vietnam.

 

At the festival, the Ministry of Science and Technology presented the Golden Cup for High-quality Coffee Products to 20 coffee producers.

 

The coffee fest 2011 is organized in bigger scale than the previous two and is the first national-scale fest organized once every two years.

 

This year, there are new activities such as exhibition of coffee-related items from around the world and the opening of a coffee trading floor.

 

The fest has introduced Vietnamese culture as well as the daily life of tribal people in the Central Highlands to tourists. It is also an opportunity to promote Vietnamese coffee to the world.

 

The fourth coffee fest will be held in March 2013 in Buon Ma Thuot City.

 

As of 2011, the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival will become a national event, which will be held each two years, on March 10.

The seven records in pictures:

The opening ceremony of the largest coffee festival in Vietnam.

The largest coffee museum in Vietnam.

A coffee-mart artwork at the coffee festival.

Le Quy Duong, the coffee festival director.

The street parade at the coffee festival.

The biggest coffee filter.

The record book.

 

PV