Tens of thousands of visitors and local residents joined Cao Dai followers at the 'Hoi Yen Dieu Tri Cung', the biggest festival of the Cao Dai sect, in the southern province of Tay Ninh on September 17 night. The festival is a major great religious banquet for the Great Mother and nine female immortals of the Dieu Tri (Jasper Pond) Palace held annually on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. With the main activities including a procession, a five-fruit banquet offering, and prayer, this year, followers displayed 118 booths of fruits, confectionery, musical instruments, and decorations, among others, to reenact the tales of the goddesses. Source: Vietnam News Agency