The 2025 Nguyen Hue Flower Street, themed "A Beautiful Homeland, a Joyful and Peaceful Spring", will feature three sections: Unity, Transformation, and Development, symbolizing Vietnam's key historical milestones.
This year marks the 22nd edition of the flower street, organized annually during Tet, Vietnam's biggest and most important holiday, celebrated as the Lunar New Year. Held in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, the event has grown into a cultural hallmark of the city.
The flower street drew over 1.2 million visitors during the last Tet, including many foreigners.
Nguyen Hue Flower Street will open from 7 p.m. on Jan. 27, two days before the new lunar year, to 9 p.m. on Feb. 2 (the fifth day of the new year).
Vietnam will have a nine-day Tet break from Jan. 25 to Feb. 2.
After 12 years, the snake mascot makes its return, with the entrance area featuring an impressive design of a serpent couple. This year’s mascots are larger and more intricately crafted than those showcased during the Year of the Snake celebration in 2013.
The snake couple measure 25 and 42 meters in length, with their bodies forming three intertwined loops that create a base over 11 meters wide and six meters high. Around 70% of the materials used to craft these mascots are eco-friendly.
The snakes' heads and underbellies are covered with compressed boards, while their upper bodies are adorned with handcrafted mica pieces, which reflect light to enhance their appearance. Each snake features 2,700 and 3,600 mica scales, respectively. LED lights run along both sides of their underbellies, adding a vibrant and dynamic element to the design.
The flower street will feature around 90 snake mascots, including a striking sculpture of a female cobra representing southern Vietnamese women, adorned with a scarf and conical hat.
Modeled after a king cobra, the sculpture is posed with its head raised high and is covered in vibrant green hues, symbolizing strength and grace.
The head of the cobra is crafted from foam, mesh, steel, and fabric, while its body is adorned with nearly 3,000 painted foam scales arranged in two loops.
The sculpture is surrounded by intricate decorative landscapes, enhancing its visual appeal and blending it seamlessly with the overall design of the flower street
The centerpiece of the main section showcases thousands of woven bamboo panels, intricately designed as open latticework for ceilings and columns. Standing approximately 8 meters tall, this impressive structure spans nearly 1,000 square meters, creating a striking and expansive display.
This design evokes an abstract perspective, resembling both a beehive and a cave, blending natural inspiration with artistic creativity.
A miniature landscape integrates vibrant flowers with the image of a train, symbolizing the inauguration of Ho Chi Minh City’s metro system on Dec. 22 of the previous year.
Another highlight of the flower street is the forest canopies, crafted from steel, foam blocks, and bamboo trellises, offering 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.
This year’s flower street is set to utilize an impressive volume of flowers, with an estimated 109,000 flower baskets of various types.
