Da Lat
Flower Festival kick-started
Six
months before the Da Lat Flower Festival, Lam
Dong Province held a press briefing in Hanoi
and initiated preparations for the festival
in Da Lat. All these efforts aim at raising
city resident’s awareness that they are
living in a city of flower festivals.
The image of a honeybee
watering flowers has been chosen as the official
symbol of the Flower Festival 2005. This year,
the Flower Festival will be three times larger
than Flower Festival last year. Backing for
the festival is pegged at VND15bil instead of
the previous VND5bil.
The province will invest VND
15 billion in organising the event compared
to last year’s VND 5 billion. The event
is expected to include 18 programmes in comparison
with last year’s six programmes.
During the festival, Da Lat
will be covered by various kinds of beautiful
and colourful flowers originating from different
localities in the country as well as foreign
countries such as Dutch Tulips, Bulgarian Roses,
and Thai and Chinese Orchids.
There will also be seminars
and workshops about flowers as well as flower
arrangement contests.
The Da Lat Flower Festival will
create a good change not only for this Central
Highlands city to introduce its beautiful flowers,
flower growing craft, topiary bonsais and so
on but also for farmers, flower companies to
explore the cooperation potentiality and sign
valuable contracts.
The festival program will also
include musical performances, trade and tourism
fairs, exhibitions and fashion shows. However,
the highest point of the Flower Festival 2005
will be street festival with the performance
of different carriages decorated by fresh flowers
of all kinds and colours.
These flower carriages will
parade in Da Lat streets in the animated atmosphere
of carnival music, forming a flower line 3km
long.
From the experience drawn
out from the previous Festival, Da Lat Flower
Festival 2005 will be held from December 10-18
to avoid Christmas holiday so as to attract
more foreign tourists.
(Source:
Vietnam News)
