I’ve never missed a year since 2010 to see the flower displays in Nguyen Hue St. in District 1.

Who doesn’t love flowers?  Well, except if you have allergy of course.

But there’s just something magical about looking at flowers — you slow down, take in the surrounding, and yes, you smile.  The experience is the same for me when seeing a rainbow.

And every year, I always ready myself to be in awe at the beautiful flower displays.I just can’t imagine the work, the hours, and the love put in to come up with such a long stretch of beauty.  It’s indeed a lovely TET 2013.

Sharing with you just a few of the photos I took this year.

We arrived at past 7 am in Nguyen Hue and you can’t imagine the number of people already! So it was really difficult to take photos.

Everybody was fighting for space to pose and photographers were trying to get people out of the way to take shots with no people.  It was sort of a nightmare.

But honestly though, I kinda liked that we were in the thick of things because it felt like a celebration — kinda like Christmas.  I haven’t had that feeling since my last Christmas in the Philippines. 

I think there’s more variety of flowers last year though compared to this year. 

But of course, I still loved the whole display. 

I wish I could have spent more time taking photos but the throng of people was just unbelievable! 

It got worse as the day progressed.  You can hardly have any shot with no strangers around you. 😛

Here’s an interesting display which reminds me so much of the Philippines —

These red columns were hard to miss —

There was a display of the different Chinese zodiacs but I was only able to take the photo of the Rats.  Can you imagine the work put into these two furry creatures?

I love how this rattan-structure made things interesting —

The pillar of mums has somewhat become a staple every year.  Still festive nonetheless.

And since it’s the Year of the Snake, you’ve got to throw these into the whole picture.  The body—

and of course the heads —The flower display in Nguyen Hue ends tomorrow.  I hope you get to swing by and enjoy the scene.

Happy TET Holiday everyone!

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