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Ho Chi Minh City is currently bustling with activities for
Christmas and New Year and for the coming Tet holiday season.
The “Shining welcome for New Year” program will feature thousands of colorful
lights along main city streets like Dong Khoi, Le Loi, Nguyen Hue and Le Duan in
District 1 from December 26 to February 3, 2012.
The City has planned firework displays in the Thu Thiem area of District 2 and
Dam Sen Park in District 11 on New Year’s Eve. In addition, an out door music
performance will take place on Nguyen Hue Street from 9 pm-12 midnight on
December 31.
The much awaited annual flower display on Nguyen Hue Flower Street titled
“Vietnam, my country” during the coming Tet Lunar New Year will open from
January 20 until January 26 (December 28 - January 4 on the lunar calendar).
Another festival, the Banh Tet (cylindrical glutinous rice cake) festival will
take place from January 16-20, 2012. Started in 2004, the Banh Tet festival is
celebrated every year with a focus on poor and needy people of the city and
helping them to enjoy a warm and joyful Tet. The event will open with a Banh Tet
cake making competition, in which 10,000 cakes will be baked and then
distributed to poor families and disadvantaged children in HCMC.
An outdoor music performance on Nguyen Hue Street from 9pm-12midnight on January
22 (December 29 on the lunar calendar) and firework displays in several
locations around the city will ring in the New Year.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport announced a plan to temporarily
halt traffic construction works and repair of roads and drainage systems during
the period December 31-January 1 and from January 8-30, 2012.
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