A median strip on a boulevard is filled with a rainbow of brilliant flowers, shrubbery and eye-catching centrepieces creating an amazingly beautiful landscape ablaze in a rainbow of colour. 

Flowers transform the streets and sidewalks into a carpet of red, yellow, and green as far as the eye can see in front of the Museum of Hanoi on Pham Hung Street.

Hanoi this time of year is – oh so beautiful –  says Mrs Nguyen Thi Huong of An Phu environment architecture.

Yellow daisies have become a popular pick for Lunar New Year floral arrangements and the markets are aflush with an array of holiday plants, flowers and consumers.

Commercial centres are also abuzz with happiness, harmony and jubilance and festively decked in holiday style.

Artistic street overhangs like this one at Thanh Nien Street greet passers-by with the traditional welcome "Chúc Mừng Năm Mới" (Happy New Year).

Kumquat trees are indispensable to the New year Holiday and are sold on seemingly every street corner throughout the city.

Ho Guom (Sword Lake) 

Traditional symbols of Hanoi overhang Dien Bien Phu Street 

In front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Phan Dinh Phung Street 

An overpass.

Tran Duy Hung Street

A globe in front of the Hanoi Opera House 

A globe in front of the State Bank of Vietnam.