Intensive preparations, including the decorating of hundreds of trees with lights, have been made by HCM City to greet Tet (Lunar New Year) from January 22-25.
Intensive preparations, including the decorating of hundreds of treeswith lights, have been made by HCM City to greet Tet (Lunar New Year)from January 22-25.
Trees lining the streets of Le Loi, Dong Khoiand Le Duan in the city centre sparkle at night with thousands oflights. The lights will be on every night until February 3.
From Jan. 20 to Jan. 26, Nguyen Hue Street, the so-called flower street, will be closed to traffic.
Thestreet will be decorated with special flowers and trees selected frommany regions in the country, including Hanoi peach blossom branches, SaDec's daisies and kumquat trees, HCM City's ochna flower trees and DaLat roses.
A 15-minute fireworks display will be set off on theeve of Tet at six spots in the city, including District 2's Thu ThiemWard and District 11's Dam Sen Park.
Next week, special musicalprogrammes to herald the arrival of the new year will take placethroughout HCM City, with the major event at September 23 Park inDistrict 1.
On Tet Eve, outdoor concerts will be organised on Le Duan Street in downtown and at all districts in the city.
Theannual Spring Flower Festival is being held in District 1's Tao DanPark till Jan. 28 y, the sixth day of the lunar new year, the Year ofthe Dragon.
The festival features more than 7,000 bonsai and orchids, and a large number of pets.
Week-longflower markets have been held since Jan. 15 at 59 sites in the city,with the three biggest organised at District 1's September 23 Park,District 3's Le Van Tam Park and Tan Binh District's Gia Dinh Park. Themarkets will close on Jan. 22, the last day of the Year of the Cat.
Thousandsof pots of fresh flowers have arrived from Da Lat and the Mekong Deltaprovince of Dong Thap to meet customer demand for home decoration.
Importssuch as mainland Chinese peach flowers, orchids from Taiwan, Australiaand New Zealand have added new colours to the local flower markets.
Thisyear, for the first time, the city opens a flower market along the TauHu Canal in District 8. Sellers transport flowers by boats to themarket, and many sell flowers to customers from their boats.
Competitionsfor banh tet, or cylinder glutinous rice cake-making, have beenorganised in the city's 24 districts with the participation of hundredsof young people. The cakes will then be presented to the poor as a Tetgift./.
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