Over 9,000 pots of lotus flowers are currently displayed in various locations across Macau for “The Scent of Lotus Perfumes the City of Macao – the 26th Macao Lotus Flower Festival”, which kicked off on Friday.
Organised by the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM), the festival also features a series of exhibitions and activities.
Themed “Lotus Filling Macao with Joy”, this year’s Lotus Flower Festival will run until 17 July, featuring the thematic flower, the beautiful and elegant Nelumbo nucifera ‘Xingfen’, whose peach-shaped, pink buds vary to a light pink hue edged with bright red upon blooming, as well as more than 20 other species of lotus flowers placed in different districts, creating an immersive space for residents and tourists to appreciate the refreshing glamour of lotus flowers.
The main exhibition venue – in Avenida da Praia, Taipa – has a multi-layered landscape with visual guidance, combining elements such as bamboo ribbon-looking structures and artificial stone sculptures.
With the nobility and purity embedded in lotus culture and the character of Macau as a city blending Chinese and Western cultures, the venue offers a summer tourist and cultural experience for visitors to enjoy photo-taking, strolling, flower viewing, and unwinding, which conveys the vitality of Macau as a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure and facilitates the integration of lotus culture with urban tourism, according to IAM.
Meanwhile, to complement this year’s Lotus Flower Festival, IAM has recently hosted six planting activities in the main venue, attracting more than 100 student participants to learn about how to grow plants as well as the scientific knowledge about natural and ecological conservation.
Source and Photo: IAM
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