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The hills of Dalat will come alive with flowers, flags, and fireworks during a flower festival carnival from December 18 to 25, 2004. Dalat Flower Festival 2004 aims to introduce the Tay Nguyen City's rich botanical resources as a vital component to its continued growth.
The festival's centerpiece will be a five-part street carnival - Hues of Dalat Flowers - from Hoa Binh Street to Dalat Square. Blending culture with botany, the carnival will begin with a parade of hundreds of actors, dressed in plant and flower costumes as well as the traditional dress of the ethnic minorities who built up the city. The second part Flower Legends - will see vans, filled with roses, daisies and wild sunflower, cruising along the city's main streets.
Topiaries, modeled around vehicles like trains, strollers, bicycles, motorbikes, cars and cranes, will take to the streets during the third stage, Improvised Floats. As the festival coincides with the wild sunflower season, the carnival will be awash in gold and the fourth part - Sunflower Memories - will incorporate the natural symbols of the city. A photography show and a flower and bonsai fair will also run during the festival at the Dalat Flower Park on Le Dai Hanh Street.
Set up in flower gardens, the exhibit - Da Lat: the Golden Moments of 2004 - will feature over 200 photographs of Dalat since its establishment in 1893 by French doctor Alexandre Yersin as a colonial hillside retreat.
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