Published:  00:19 Saturday - December 17, 2011

Dalat Flower Festival, a famous festival not only in Vietnam but also region wide, is an annual event to celebrate the colorful nature of the city. The event is especially enticing to nature lovers – one can just take a stroll around the city and contemplate works of arts made of flowers to be exhibited across streets, parks and markets this December.

Dalat Flower Festival, a famous festival not only in Vietnam but also region wide, is an annual event to celebrate the colorful nature of the city. The event is especially enticing to nature lovers – one can just take a stroll around the city and contemplate works of arts made of flowers to be exhibited across streets, parks and markets this December.

A flower exhibition will be held on Ho Tung Mau and Le Dai Hanh Streets, alongside the Xuan Huong Lake, Ba Huyen Thanh Quan Park and Lien Khuong Airport. The Da Lat flower market, an international flower exhibition introducing famous flowers from the region will be displayed at the Da Lat Flower Park. Music events, fashion shows, an international trade-expo, a seminar on flowers and a night wine festival will also be part of the Festival.

There will be activities on the main theme of flowers such as honoring florists and flower production technology as well as tourism and sport activities such as conquering Lang-Bian Mountain

There will also be a flower road display at the Palace Hotel and tours of flower villages, fields, valleys, hills, villas and a trade village fair. A gala night of street dances and flower balloon performances will also be part of the Festival celebrations.

Dalat flower festival - Lam Dong Province

200,000 tulip baskets to be displayed at this festival. One of the highlights of the Festival will be a flower bridge, themed “Europe in the city of a thousand flowers”. For this, the Ong Dao Bridge will be decorated with flowers and installed with LED lighting. Organizers are hoping that the Ong Dao Flower Bridge will be recognized as “Vietnam’s most beautiful flower bridge”.

The festival encourages participation of the larger population to promote the cultural-social aspect of this event, introducing and honoring the city of flower as well as florists. Last year, Dalat Flower Festival took place in January 2010 and set to accentuate October 10th event - when Hanoi celebrated its 1000 years birth and prosperity.  

Renowned as the city of love in Vietnam, Dalat will sure appeal to most tourists for its irresistible beauty hidden inside the pleasant weather, the French colonial architecture, the poetic pine tree hills and above all the vast variety of flowers all over the valley.