Decin, Czech Republic News

For the Czech Republic, the loss of Vaclav Havel is reminiscent of the mourning for Lincoln in the U.S. To mourn Abraham Lincoln, there was the famous funeral train that carried his body for two weeks from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1865.

The flowers that people had brought to the coffin of former Czech president Vaclav Havel were thrown in the Labe River after their three-day voyage along the Vltava and Labe rivers yesterday.

A pontoon towed by a boat carrying the flowers that people brought to the coffin of former Czech president Vaclav Havel set out on a three-day voyage along the Vltava River amid sunny weather and great public interest in Prague Saturday.

As the shock of Vaclav Havel's death slowly wears off, Czechs are considering the best possible ways to honour his memory and uphold his legacy for future generations.

The imaginary life journey of the first Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died earlier this month, will be symbolically closed by a boat voyage along the Vltava and Labe rivers on December 31, Sabina Tancevova from Havel's office told CTK yesterday.