DRUSKININKAI, Lithuania, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From April 22 to 24, the Festival of Daffodils was held in Druskininkai, a spa town located in southern Lithuania.

Besides the spectacular view and fragrance of the blooming daffodils in the city's Vikyuniel Park, ambient music and light shows were also presented, making it an intense and unique experience for visitors from countries such as Poland, Latvia, Estonia as well as other regions of Lithuania.

Antanas Urbonas, the organizer of the festival, told Xinhua: "This year's daffodil festival applied lasers, music and digital technology to expand the visual space of the daffodil fields, creating fantastic video and audio-visual effects."

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, this unconventional idea came out to maintain the cultural tradition of the daffodil festival and to attract more tourists. This year's festival has been expanded on the basis of last year's practice.

"The main reason for people to see the daffodils in Druskininkai is that daffodils come together with spring," Urbonas said. "After a long winter, people can't wait to see something beautiful."

During the festival, Druskininkai also hosted a large market in the city center, where tourists could buy traditional Lithuanian goods such as food, clothes, accessories, jewelry.

In 2011, Druskininkai planted the first 130,000 daffodils in Vikyuniel Park. Today there are more than 500,000 daffodils in the park.