Like many countries around the world, Vietnam has already celebrated the New Year on January 1. But there’s another one coming. The much more anticipated and much bigger event will upstage everything else, when we start a nine-day holiday to celebrate the Lunar Tet Festival, which this year starts on February 15. And yes, nine days. Festive …
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A leading online tourism magazine, Smart Travel Asia, has named Da Nang and Ha Noi among the Top 10 attractive destinations in the region this year. This is the second consecutive year that Viet Nam’s two cities have won spots on the list. The criteria included the quality and responses to tourism products, trademarks and …
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Preparation. During the week before Tet, some families visit the graves of parents and grandparents. Fresh earth is placed on top, weeds removed from around it and incense is burnt to invoke the souls of the dead from the other world to return to visit the family home. The Kitchen God (Ong Tao or Mandarin …
The sexual revolution was late to arrive in Vietnam; more accurately, it arrived during the sixties and promptly departed on the last American chopper in 1975. But the tag team of AIDS and the Internet sparked a new sexual revolution at the turn of the century. Young men and women suddenly had access to information …