Everything's coming up roses in Dalat
The hills of Dalat will come alive with flowers, flags, and fireworks during a flower festival carnival from December 18 to 25, 2004. Dalat Flower Festival 2004 aims to introduce the Tay Nguyen City's rich botanical resources as a vital component to its continued growth.
The festival's centerpiece will be a five-part street carnival - Hues of Dalat Flowers - from Hoa Binh Street to Dalat Square. Blending culture with botany, the carnival will begin with a parade of hundreds of actors, dressed in plant and flower costumes as well as the traditional dress of the ethnic minorities who built up the city. The second part Flower Legends - will see vans, filled with roses, daisies and wild sunflower, cruising along the city's main streets.
Topiaries, modeled around vehicles like trains, strollers, bicycles, motorbikes, cars and cranes, will take to the streets during the third stage, Improvised Floats. As the festival coincides with the wild sunflower season, the carnival will be awash in gold and the fourth part - Sunflower Memories - will incorporate the natural symbols of the city. A photography show and a flower and bonsai fair will also run during the festival at the Dalat Flower Park on Le Dai Hanh Street.
Set up in flower gardens, the exhibit - Da Lat: the Golden Moments of 2004 - will feature over 200 photographs of Dalat since its establishment in 1893 by French doctor Alexandre Yersin as a colonial hillside retreat.
Southern Fruit Festival 2004
Southern Fruit Festival 2004 - Vietnam Travel Guide - Vietnam Travel Tips
Southern Fruit Festival 2004, which is chosen a tourism event in Ho Chi Minh City, will be launched on June 1st by the Ho Chi Minh City’s Departments of Tourism, Culture and Information, Agriculture, and Suoi Tien Tourism Area. It will run through until August 30th at Suoi Tien Tourist Zone.
On display will be a fruit market with 40 stalls, decorated like a floating market typical to the southwest, that will offer 45 kinds of special southern fruits including Long Khanh - Cai Be rambutans, mangosteens, and mulberry; Cai Mon durians and colocynth; Vinh Long tangerines, and Hoa Loc mangoes. They are sold 30-40% cheaper than regular market prices. An area will also be set up selling frozen fruits and pure fruit juices. In addition, bonsai, ornamental trees and stones, birds and unique fruits will be also displayed at a special area.Besides, there will be award for selling freezing fruits and original fruit-juice.
During the festival, contest on plastic arts in fruits will take place with the participants of 70 artisans. Also on hand for visitors will be 15 folk games, lion dances, music and a circus performance, as well as a host of gigantic fruits. The Festival is expected to attract 5,000 to 7,000 tourists a day.
Tea culture festival to draw tourists to Da Lat
The Tea Culture Festival 2006 will take place in the flower city of Da Lat, the Central Highland province of Lam Dong from December 21-24.
The festival will feature several remarkable activities such as Da Lat Travel Expo 2006 with the participation of more than 250 domestic and foreign enterprises in over 350 stalls, Da Lat Tourism Promotion Exhibition, Christmas Day, performance parade, and Street Painting Show.
On this occasion, local travel agents will launch tours to learn about tea culture, such as “One Day with a Tea Village”, “A Visit to Di Linh and Bao Loc Tea-Gardens”.
Vietnam province plans festival in celebration of tea
Vietnam’s largest tea-growing province will hold a festival in December gathering all the country’s famous tea brands, local authorities told the press Wednesday.
Lam Dong province’s Festival Centre for Culture and Tourism announced at a press conference the event would be held in Bao Loc and Bao Lam districts and the resort city of Da Lat.
The festival would celebrate the tea brands and feature music shows, parties, and other activities. It was expected to cost VND2.8 billion (US$174,340).
Lam Dong accounts for 27 percent of Vietnam’s tea output.
