Year of the Monkey energizes, revitalizes Hanoi
VOV.VN - Hanoi city 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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Hanoi this time of year is – oh so beautiful – says Mrs Nguyen Thi Huong of An Phu environment architecture. |
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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. |
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Commercial centres are also abuzz with happiness, harmony and jubilance and festively decked in holiday style. |
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Artistic street overhangs like this one at Thanh Nien Street greet passers-by with the traditional welcome "Chúc Mừng Năm Mới" (Happy New Year). |
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Kumquat trees are indispensable to the New year Holiday and are sold on seemingly every street corner throughout the city. |
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Ho Guom (Sword Lake) |
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Ly Thai To Monument |
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Traditional symbols of Hanoi overhang Dien Bien Phu Street |
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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Phan Dinh Phung Street |
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Tran Duy Hung Street |
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Hanoi Opera House |
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State Bank of Vietnam. |
