Nguyen Hue Flower Street to shine for “Dawn of Spring”

The theme for flower street of Nguyen Hue, HCM City, this lunar New Year will be “Dawn of Spring”, announced the Saigon Tourism Corporation (Saigontourist) on January 11.
From there, the flower road will be divided into six sections and decorated based on various themes.
Saigontourist, which is responsible for decorating the street and organizing the Tet Festival in HCM City this year, said the Uncle Ho Statue Park area would be themed “Sunshine” and the area from the willow tree roundabout to Mac Thi Buoi Street would be themed “Spring of love.”
The theme in front of the Sunwah Tower will be “Converged Dawn”. The theme for the section from Huynh Thuc Khang Street to Ngo Duc Ke Street will be “Power of Solidarity”. Other names include “A corner of the fatherland” for the road from Ngo Duc Ke Street to Hai Trieu Street and “Directing towards Thang Long” for the section from Hai Trieu Street to Ton Duc Thang Street.
With the theme “Sunshine,” the Uncle Ho Statue will be decorated with a dozen of rare apricot and yellow Mokara orchid pots and flowers in red and yellow. They will be arranged in the shape of circles and squares to symbolize Vietnam’s traditional banh chung and banh giay (square and round glutinous rice cakes).
Images of tigers will be appear in several materials including wood, bronze, and tree bark and displayed on the street along with other popular images, ancient stamps, and linen.
With the first day of the Lunar New year this year also being Valentine’s Day, February 14, Nguyen Hue Street will also have huge hearts, flower shoes, and spring roses.
In addition, the organizing board will display a giant flower-made pair of hearts and a huge rose-made pair of shoes in Nguyen Hue Road.
Flower street will be constructed from February 3-11 to serve the public between February 11-16 or December 28 to January 3 in the lunar calendar.