Construction and decoration of the annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street are ongoing before it opens between January 27 and February 2 to celebrate the Tet Lunar New Year Festival.
The 2025 Nguyen Hue Flower Street, Themed A Beautiful Homeland, a Joyful and Peaceful Spring, features 109,000 flower baskets of various varieties and many other decorative items arranged in themes including unity, transformation, and development. These baskets symbolise Vietnam's key historical milestones.
At the street's entrance, visitors will see a pair of giant snake mascots, a male and a female, measuring 25 and 42 metres in length. Their bodies form three intertwined loops, creating a base over 11 metres wide and six metres high. Around 70% of the materials used to craft these mascots are eco-friendly.
The image of the city's first metro route, robot AI, and other images are also displayed through different miniatures and flower arrangements on the street, showing the city's readiness for robust development.
Another highlight of Flower Street is the forest canopies, crafted from steel, foam blocks, and bamboo trellises. They offer a unique blend of natural and modern elements.
One section of the flower street will feature terraced rice fields recreated alongside decorative totem poles adorned with traditional patterns, representing the culture of people from northern mountainous regions.
Truong Duc Hung, General Director of Saigontourist Group, the organiser of the flower street, said that they are co-ordinating with local departments and agencies to construct and decorate the flower street under the direction of the municipal people's committee.