Leisure & Sports

Sports and events in Vietnam

 Leisure activities in Vietnam consists of traditional sports such as wrestling, swinging, chess, martial arts, tug of war etc as well as other rugged adventures like horse and elephant races, archery and throwing con balls.Several parts of Vietnam have also hosted international or regional sports competition and events like the biennial South East Asian Games in 2003, which groomed local talents in sports like karate, chess, shooting as well as bodybuilding. 

Local kids and youths also enjoy traditional and folk games such as spinning tops (con quay), cat and mouse games on top their special festival games like Nem Con, human chess mentioned earlier under traditional folk games for leisure. 


Credits:
Journey through Hanoi by Quek Ling Xiang
http://www.vietnamtourism.com/
Photo credits to respective owners