Phu Dinh lantern market – a special cultural area in Ho Chi Minh cities is very crowded each time of Mid – Autumn. For tourists in Vietnam travel this time, this is the place not to be missed.

Admire colorful lanterns in Phu Dinh lantern market - Vietnam

Although there is nearly a month until Mid-Autumn day (the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month or September 12), this market in Ho Chi Minh city’s District 5 is crowded already. The market, located in between the four streets of Tran Hung Dao, Luong Nhu Hoc, Phu Dinh and Nguyen An, has been a special cultural area of Cholon (China Town) in Saigon since the 1960s with its sole product of lanterns for Mid-Autumn day.

Nowadays, this venue is a popular place not only for children but also couples and tourists in Vietnam travel to take photos and admire colorful lanterns in diversified shapes and styles.

A Vietnamese girl takes her foreign boyfriend to visit the lantern market

on Luong Nhu Hoc Street in District 5

A couple choose a plastic battery-run lantern for their daughter. This new type of lantern with a light and music and also cheaply priced has replaced the traditional lantern made of colorful glossy paper and bamboo frame for the younger generation

Source: The Sai Gon Times

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