Hanoi decorated for Tet

The central streets in the capital and around Hoan Kiem Lake are luxuriously decorated with flowers and multi-coloured lanterns to welcome the coming Lunar New Year 2013.

In recent days, many streets near Hoan Kiem Lake have taken on          a festive air with luxuriously colourfully decorations. Ba Trieu  and Hang Khay streets are decorated with diamond-shaped lanterns.

Trang Tien Street is full of pink peach blossom-shaped lamps

Peach flowers and yellow apricot blossoms are displayed  at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

At the August 19 Garden, workers are rushing to complete  the decorations.

In the area around the Ly Thai To Statue, welcome plates are                                         created out of flowers.

Around Hoan Kiem Lake

Flowerpots are displayed at Cua Nam intersection

A flower gate is created near Ngoc Son Temple

Vincom Trade Centre

Artificial flowers decorate the Dien Bien Phu – Chu Van An             traffic circle, in front of the headquarter of the Ministry                                           of Foreign Affairs.

It is less than a week until the Lunar New Year 2013