Only biennially, the Dalat Flower Festival will provide you opportunity to take part during great November or December vacation. Apart from vibrant flowers with pleasant scent permeating the whole city, there are also several interesting events ready to surprise you.
Introduction about the Dalat Flower Festival
Dalat debuted Da Lat Flower Festival in December 2004 and successful commencing in 2005. The festival started to take place every two years under the theme "Dalat – Where colors of flowers meet."
When you visit Dalat during the festival, you will see several carefully chosen flower species. Participating lets you take advantage of a variety of events like floral car parades, flower seminars, and exhibits. Additionally there are unique nighttime activities including a love-themed festival, which presents excellent chances for striking gorgeous pictures.
A traveler enjoys the vibrant flower fields at Dalat Flower Festival
Starting with an amazing performance on a water stage at Xuan Huong Lake, the opening night of the Dalat Flower Event usually makes a great breathtaking performance. Every year the celebration draws more than 80,000 visitors from Vietnam as well as from all across the globe to Dalat.
Besides, the music night aims to revive well-known traditions about love and flowers like the LangBiang myth, the story of Ngưu Lang – Chức Nữ or legendary Than Tho Lake.
The end of 2024, the next Dalat Flower Festival seems to provide a fresh and interesting line of events. With a theme "Dalat Flowers – Symphony of Colors," the festival aims to highlight Da Lat – Lam Dong's culture, people, and tourism to both domestic and international visitors, cementing Da Lat as Vietnam's Flower Festival City, one of top 5 Impressive Festival Citie in Asia.
Beautiful floral exhibition at Dalat Flower Festival
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Highlights of Dalat Flower Festival 2024
1. The brilliant inaugural ceremony
The Flower Festival in Dalat starts in style with a ceremony that sets the tone for the whole event. As the main event of the festival, the opening ceremony features a wide range of acts, such as traditional dances, music, plays, and light shows. The stage turns into a blank painting where artists show off their skills in a visual and audio performance.
2. Flower parade in Dalat city
Each painstakingly crafted float in the flower procession represents a different subject, narrative, or cultural motif, carefully chosen to convey. These floats become moving pieces of art when used as mobile staging for works of art.
Viewers crowd the path of the procession as it weaves through Dalat's streets. Along with energetic music, traditional dances in vivid costumes, the air will become excited and playful.
Vibrant flowers, rhythmic sounds, and a happy atmosphere combined will produce a Dalat Flower Festival.
Dalat City Centre with many flowers
3. The exhibition of thousands of flowers
Roses, orchids, lilies, sunflowers, and many more are among the amazing displays of many floral species the festival features. You will see the amazing exhibition of thousands of brilliant flowers in vivid hues and intriguing arrangements at this Vietnam flower festival and which is among its tourist attractions.
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4. Lively flower markets
The city comes alive during Dalat Flower Festival with vibrant flower vendors. When you visit the booths loaded with fresh-cut flowers, potted plants, and complex floral arrangements, you can immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of colors and smells.
Apart from flower marketplaces, Dalat has several venues where one may appreciate floral beauty outside of Dalat Flower Festival. Among the well-known sites are Dalat Flower Park, Trai Mat Hydrangea Garden, Van Thanh Dalat Flower Garden, Dalat Lavender Garden near Tuyen Lam Lake, Sunflower Garden at Dalat Milk Farm, Thai Phien Flower Garden, Dalat Lavender Garden on Cau Dat Tea Hill, and Cau Dat Garden.
Creative flower arrangement at the festival.
When is Dalat Flower Festival held?
The Dalat Flower Festival 2024 is scheduled to be a magnificent festival spanning 25 days from December 6 to December 31, 2024. 10 main events and 12 supporting programs will be part of the festival.
The 12 supporting events span the "Dalat Fun Color - Music Festival'', the "Bao Lam – Legend and Convergence" Festival, the Korea-Dalat 2024 Music Festival, and other events. Apart from that, the event will feature interactive tourism experiences, art displays, and cultural preservation workshops.
A visitor holds a basket of hydrangeas at Dalat's colorful gardens
Besides, 10 main events consist in the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Flower Festival, a New Year's Eve 2025 Art Program and Closing Ceremony, floral locations, and an international conference on green travel and cultural sectors.
Other events include Bao Loc's unique art program, an OCOP product trade fair, and a Flower and Heritage Street Carnival including street art performances, fashion shows, and automobile parades adorned with flowers.
Along with a street carnival including a flower car procession, floral fashion shows, and street art performances, bringing Dalat's streets alive with creativity and color.
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