Da Lat eyes high-quality market for flowers, produce (10-12-2005) DA LAT— Local flower and vegetable growers are getting help to meet demand from the fastidious end of the market. … [Read more...] about Da Lat eyes high-quality market for flowers, produce
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Da Lat – A Flower Festival City
Da Lat Flower Festival 2012 was held from December 30, 2011 to January 3, 2012. On the occasion of the event, the Prime Minister issued a decision to officially recognized Da Lat as "The Flower Festival City of Vietnam". It also meant that the Da Lat flower trademark had been increasingly honoured and affirmed. From the traditional floriculture Those who visit Da Lat will never forget the image of a romantic city with pine trees and beautiful flowers in different colours. Situated at an altitude of 1,500m above sea level and surrounded by high mountains, Da Lat has a temperate climate with cool weather all year round, which is very suitable for growing vegetables and flowers throughout the four seasons. The floriculture in Da Lat started in 1938 when people from the flower-growing villages of Nghi Tam and Quang Ba in Hanoi emigrated here. Realising that this area had fresh air and fertile land, they established Ha Dong Village and specialized in growing vegetables and gladiolus. … [Read more...] about Da Lat – A Flower Festival City
Da Lat preserves urban heritage
Con Ga Church is a famous heritage site in Da Lat City, located in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong (Source: VNA)Lam Dong (VNA)- Planning experts have urged authorities in the Central Highlands provinceof Lam Dong to preserve the special urban heritage of Da Lat city.Experts at departments, agencies, and universities discussed urban and culturalpreservation and development, particularly its French colonial-eraarchitecture, at a seminar held in Da Lat on December 27.Planning expert Le Quang Ninh said that hundreds of special architectural worksin the city should be preserved and promoted.Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports,and Tourism Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, spoke about the cultural value of Frencharchitecture, saying that it was necessary to preserve, upgrade or remove manybuildings constructed in the early or mid-20th century.Urban planning expert Ngo Viet Nam Son said that planning should include … [Read more...] about Da Lat preserves urban heritage
Flower fanatics prepare for Da Lat festival
The Hanoi Times - Thirty flower businesses will showcase their blossoms in the streets of Da Lat in early January. Bui Van Sang, the owner of one of Da Lat's most well-known tourist sites, the Valley of Peaches, and the son of late Da Lat flower artisan Muoi Loi who devoted his whole life to flowers, said his farm is preparing 100 peach trees to be displayed around Da Lat's Xuan Huong Lake during the 2010 Flower Festival to be held in the city on January 1-4. Sang is among hundreds of flower-growers that will join 30 flower business firms in showing off their flowers at the festival which is the first of a series held to welcome the millennial anniversary of capital Ha Noi, said Truong Van Thu, deputy chairman of the Lam Dong People's Committee, at a recent press briefing in Ha Noi. "The festival will be different this year. Instead of the flowers being displayed solely inside the city as previously, the displays will be expanded along the 25km from Lien Khuong Airport to the city … [Read more...] about Flower fanatics prepare for Da Lat festival
The forgotten Da Lat
A new photo book shows a simple, unobstructed Da Lat, before the days of tour buses and kitschy souvenirs.It was by pure chance that photographer Tam Thai stumbled across a dusty box containing hundreds of old photographs and film reels of Da Lat in the 1950s.It was 1976 and Thai had been searching private storage areas and public records in Nha Trang for materials about Dr. Alexandre Yersin as part of a personal research project. But the rare photos, showing an undeveloped and pure Da Lat, put him on another track.“I knew immediately how important this collection was,” said Thai. “I decided to track down the history of each photo.”The collection contained a vast array of shots and films, depicting the people of Da Lat and their everyday lives, as well as the stunning mountainous landscape of Da Lat and its views from atop the Langbiang plateau.Now, over 30 years later, Thai has put 150 of those photos, along with 150 of his own shots, into a new 230-page book: … [Read more...] about The forgotten Da Lat