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Amazing International Flower Festival opens in Thailand’s Khon Kaen

Visitors were attracted to Khon Kaen over the weekend to view a display of 100,000 flowers planted in Bueng Tung Sarng park, which is ready to host an international flower event.
Amazing International Flower Festival opens in Thailand’s Khon Kaen ảnh 1Illustrative photo (Source: NNT)

Bangkok (NNT/VNA) – Visitors were attracted to Khon Kaen over theweekend to view a display of 100,000 flowers planted in Bueng Tung Sarng park,which is ready to host an international flower event.

The park is hosting the Amazing International Flower Festival in Khon Kaen2018, from December 17 to January 3, 2019 but has already attracted a steadystream of visitors from within the province itself and from across the country.The fair is presented over 15 zones featuring a range of different flowersarranged in attractive displays.

Khon Kaen Mayor Theerasak Teekayuphan announced that the festival’s theme is“Castle of Flowers” and that among the 15 zones is a flower archway, a flowercastle, a terrace of flowers, vertical plants and a fountain, as well as zonesfeaturing flowers formed into animals and dinosaurs. The festival has collectedover 100,000 different plants for the exhibition of flowers.

Sanya Niltaraj, a traveler from Sakon Nakhon, said on Sunday that he decidedto visit the festival after hearing about it during a recent visit to KhonKaen. He remarked he looks forward to seeing the flowers once they are in fullbloom.

Supakit Sritanan, a student from Khon Kaen University, said that he expects tovisit the festival once again duringits run to take more photos to post online. – NNT/VNA
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