It is forecast that this number will increase sharply in the following days when the North will be sunny and have warm weather from now until close to Lunar New Year.
Check-in space with “million likes”, shopping to your heart’s content
Despite the cold weather last week, social networking sites are still filled with pictures of people checking in and doing busy Tet shopping at the Ocean City Spring Fair. Possessing a “huge” scale spanning 3km with more than 400 stalls, a record in Vietnam, along with elaborate investment in grand decorations and experience spaces, Spring Fair 2024 “The market is more fun than Tet”. “The street is more crowded than the festival” has become the focus of this year’s spring festival, attracting a large number of people in the Capital and tourists from neighboring provinces.
Participating in the Fair, young people have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cheerful and bustling Spring atmosphere with dozens of miniature landscapes and photo spots that both feature the characteristics of traditional Vietnamese Tet and contemporary colors with mascots. symbolizes peace, happiness, fortune, luck… Every street corner in Ocean City is bright with spring colors and has become the favorite check-in “film studio” of thousands of young people.
Besides the lively miniatures, there are 400 specialty booths from regions and craft villages across the country, selecting all high-quality OCOP specialties, meeting standards of 4 stars or higher from all 63 provinces and cities.
Cleverly and impressively designed with the inspiration of the Tet countryside market, the Spring Fair recreates a traditional Tet market with indispensable specialties such as dried bamboo shoots, buffalo meat, sausage, and braised fish. Vu Dai village, Quang Ninh yellow flower tea, Gia Lai dried beef, Ben Tre wax coconut candy, Nghe An tamarind sausage… or exquisite handicraft decorations.
In the cold cold of the winter days in the North, the 2024 Spring Fair becomes even more attractive with hot snack stalls, bringing visitors back to their childhood with rustic gifts such as grilled corn, sweet potatoes, and sweet soup. tea…
Right from the moment it opened, the 2024 Spring Fair has always been crowded with visitors, of which the most popular place here is the flower street with 17,000 ornamental plants, Tet flowers of all kinds… Interspersed with bright pink colors. of rare ancient peach pots in Son La or high-class orchids are the graceful images of colorful ao dai. Son La ancient peaches and yellow apricots are especially sought following by customers.
“It’s really great to walk among the bright spring flower streets and admire the precious flowers, feeling the spring atmosphere become even more bustling and exciting,” Ms. Thu Quynh (Hanoi) shared.
The “train” takes tourists back to the old Tet
Not only creating a meeting space between traditional beauty and impressive modern colors, the 2024 Spring Fair in Ocean City is also the place for many artistic performances and young, creative community interactions. center, bringing the old Tet closer to the younger generation. Rarely do Hanoi’s youth have the opportunity to enjoy the traditional Tet atmosphere with performances of Xoan singing, peach singing, betel singing, ao dai performances or excitedly participating in interesting folk games such as tossing con. , stilt walking, tug of war, mandarin umbrella, capture the flag…
Spring visitors, especially children, also showed great interest in free workshops with artisans wrapping banh chung, banh tet, making lucky money, making decorative baskets for Tet…
Mr. Nhat Long (tourist from Hai Phong) said: “I am very impressed with the 2024 Spring Fair. Even though society has developed with many shops, convenience stores, and supermarkets, the Tet markets contain Unique traditional cultural beauties are always the soul of Vietnamese Tet.”
After a series of “blockbuster” festivals, the 2024 Spring Fair “The market is more fun than Tet, the street is more crowded than the festival” continues to affirm its position as the newest and most attractive cultural destination in the East of Hanoi through activities Impressive experience, fully recreating the unique culture of the old Tet but still not lacking the modern sound of integrated life.
This is also one of the reasons why the 3km long “Pho Hoi Tet Market” in Ocean City was recognized by the Vietnam Records Organization as the largest Spring Fair in Vietnam in 2024. The event will last until the end. February 8, 2024 (December 29), is expected to attract millions of tourists from the Capital and neighboring provinces and cities to have fun and shop for Tet – especially when the weather in the North is sunny and warm. gradually.