Nguyen Hue Flower Street in Ho Chi Minh City opened on Saturday as Tet (the Lunar New Year Festival) approaches.
The flower street, which will run until February 4, aims to pay tribute to frontliners in the city’s fight against COVID-19, especially medical workers.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc said the street marks an unforgettable period of the city that is steadily recovering from the pandemic.
The highlight of the street will be its tiger mascot, the zodiac animal of the upcoming lunar new year.
Environmentally-friendly and reusable materials such as metal, foam, rattan, bamboo, and bricks are used as decorations, while roughly 97,000 flower baskets of all kinds are on display.
The same day, the 2022 Lunar New Year’s book street festival began on Nguyen Hue, Ngo Duc Ke, Mac Thi Buoi, and Nguyen Van Binh streets.
Approximately 50,000 book titles are presented with a wide range of genres and topics.
There are a calligraphy street, and exhibitions of paintings, photographs and publications focused on HCM city and the fight against COVID-19 last year as well as an exhibition on Vietnam’s seas and islands with the introduction of two sets of stamps “Homeland sea and islands” and “Vietnam on world stamps.”
Source: VOV5