HCM CITY — The HCM City's annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street attracted nearly 800,000 local and foreign visitors during the Tet holiday (Lunar New Year), organisers said.
After it opened on last Monday, the flower street welcomed more than 100,000 city residents as well as visitors from neighbouring provinces and foreign countries each day, said Tran Hung Viet, deputy general director of Saigontourist and head of the 2011 Tet Festival organisation board.
This year's flower street, in its eighth annual edition, was themed Tam Cao Moi (New Heights), reflecting the city's aspiration to post greater socio-economic achievements.
Apart from floral bonanza in different spring themes, highlights this year included the 5m-high Cau Mua (Worshipping for Good Crops) Flower Tower that visitors could climb and get an overview of the whole street.
The flower street was closed for clearing on Sunday and reopened to traffic yesterday. — VNS