(VOVworld) -Festive merry makers have gathered at the Hanoi metropolitan area to ring in the 2014 Christmas season with traditional holiday tree lighting ceremonies.

Some photos of the events:

More than 1.000 LED lights twinkle on a 32.5-metre tree at Vincom Royal City Mega Mall’s first tree lighting.

A wonderful glittering tree at the Lotte shopping mall.
A tree shaped like a lighthouse creates a canopy of light at the Vincom Centre on Ba Trieu.street

The lights of 100 LED screens shimmer and bounce wildly across this tree at the Vincom Centre on Ba Trieu.
LED light strips glisten at the Hanoi Indochina Plaza shopping centre.