Hanoi streets are awash in colourful flags,
flowers and new year decor as thousands hustle about making last minute
preparations to usher in the Year of the Monkey.
Hanoi streets are awash in colourful flags,
flowers and new year decor as thousands hustle about making last minute
preparations to usher in the Year of the Monkey.
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
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