Daily Times

Vietnam is expected to hold the largest-ever rose festival from March 3-8 in capital Hanoi.

The festival taking place in a park in downtown Hanoi will draw participation of over 300 rose species, reported local Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) online newspaper on Thursday.

During the event, the whole park will become a “rose island” with an area of some 6,000 square metres.

Visitors will have chance to enjoy beauty of large rose bushes in antique European-style domes, as well as various rose masterpieces like “Castle of Love,” “Dating Wall,” and “Love’s Garden of Roses” among others.

A series of activities will be held in the event, including a street festival, a contest to choose “Rose Queen,” a street demonstration of circus artists and flora floats among others.

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world’s 14th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976.