HCM City will ban vehicles from entering Nguyen Hue Street from February 5-12 (December 27, 2015-January 5, 2016 Lunar Calendar) for the annual flower festival according to the local Department of Transport.
All kinds of vehicles will be banned from 7pm February 5 to 10pm February 12 when the festival is held.
Surrounding streets including Le Loi, Nguyen Thiep, Ton That Hiep, Mac Thi Buoi, Huynh Thuc Khang, Ngo Duc Ke, and Hai Trieu will also be party blocked to make way for the festival.
Decorations for the 720-metre flower street have started with the theme HCM City, Peace, Prosperity and Growth.
The street begins with a monkey family holding Tet specialties like Chung cakes, pork pie, fruits as good greetings to welcome the Year of the Monkey.
The typical images of the southwest region throughout coconut trees, colourful flower baskets as well as famous flowers from Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, are also brought to decorate the street.
