As many as 18 programmes will take place during the Da Lat Flower Festival to be held in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from December 30, 2011 to January 3, 2012.

Major programmes will include an international flower exhibition, a street flower parade, a flower market-day, a cuisine and flower festival, and a seminar on flower.

A series of cultural and arts activities will also be held as part of the festival, including a flower road at the Palace Hotel and tours of flower villages, fields, valleys, hills and villas, a trade village fair, a gala night of street dances and flower balloon performances.

The opening ceremony of the festival will be held on the night of December 31, 2011./.