(VOVWORLD) - The 19th Southern Fruit Festival will open next Thursday at Suoi Tien Theme Park in Ho Chi Minh City and will run until the end of August.
 The Southern Fruits Festival's press conference (Photo: hcmcpv.org.vn) |
The event will feature a variety of activities such as specialty fruit markets, cooking, and fruit carving contests and artistic performances.
In addition to southern fruits, this year's event will also feature rare and exotic collections of fruit varieties from around the globe, but they are grown locally in Suoi Tien farms such as American figs, Indian pomegranates, Indonesian black sapote, Brazilian cherries, and Japanese Shine Muscat.
The Vietnam-ASEAN, Vietnam-India, Vietnam-Indonesia, and Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Associations will host art performances showcasing the close relationships between Vietnam and other countries.