(TITC) - From 1 to 9 June 2016, in Suoi Tien Culture Tourism Park (No.120 Ha Noi Highway, Ho Chi Minh City), Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Tourism in coordination with Department of Agriculture and Rural, Department of Industry and Trade, Suoi Tien Culture Tourism Joint Stock Company and related units will organize Southern Fruit Festival 2016.
This is an annual activity to contribute to promoting fruit specialties of Viet Nam and also the South to domestic and international visitors. This is also an opportunity for artisans to create unique fruit plastic products, contribute to preserving and developing fruit plastic art in Viet Nam.
This year’s fruit festival will have the participants of fruit processing enterprises, gardeners, agriculture import-export units, trade centres, supermarkets, small traders, and also domestic and international art troupes, such as India, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos…
Main activities in the Southern Fruit Festival 2016 include performances of domestic and international art troupes, ao dai show themed fruit, fruit fashion parade, fruit carnival, the 8th Southern delicious and safe fruits contest, process of bartending drinks from fruit…
In addition, the Southern Fruit Festival 2016 has many responding activities, such as the market of fruit and craft products (from 28 May to 30 August), introduction of cuisine culture (from 1 June to 30 August), display of ornamental creatures (from 1 to 9 June), Viet Nam’s Fruit Week (from 1 to 7 June), fruit plastic art contest (from 6 to 9 June)…
Along with fascinating culture and art activities, folk games (painting, sack jumping, crossing footbridge…) will also be held to create more attraction for the festival.
Thu Giang