Posted in Central Vietnam, Experience and Tips, Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam

Vietnamese Tet holiday

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Each time spring comes, we are happy to celebrate 🎉 Tet holiday, normally it happens in the end of January or February according to the lunar calendar.

Although this year is a special case cause Corona virus, we still try to prepare some unique things in our holiday as flowers, sticky rice cake, fried spring rolls, and also buy something news to replace old ones. Tet holiday is also the occasion to express the respect and gratitude to our parents, our grandparents.

The traditional Tet festival lasts for three days. It is considered a time to begin new stuff, to discard the problems of the past year and start all over. People buy new clothes and often change jobs or switch careers. During the last week of the old year, they sweep away all the bad things that have accumulated in the previous 12 months with a thorough cleaning of their homes and gardens, especially including altars that honor gods and ancestors.

This festival is our biggest vacation yearly, we have 5-7 days to celebrate it with all members in our family and including our relatives, our friends, certainly all companies and restaurants, coffee shops close to allow their staffs go back their hometown.

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Posted in Hanoi - the capital city, Hanoi food, Northern Vietnam

Don’t waste one day in Hanoi

If you come to Hanoi, our capital, how do you spend the time to discover?

Actually, you could visit all places and taste all kind of unique foods in Hanoi, so I would like to introduce some specific ones then you could explore and understand about our city, our culture by shortest way.

Almost people know Hanoi as a traditional city with maintaining ancient places or local people’s lifestyle.

Let’s discover Hanoi with me one day.

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Hanoi - the capital city, Northern Vietnam

Traffic jam whenever it is rainy in Hanoi

Traffic jam

Hanoi, when rainy comes, all streets are traffic jam at the rush hour. As your seeing my shot here, each person, each group rides motorcycles, rides cars to follow each other. I must take 2 hours from my office to my apartment though only 10 km, that’s a frequent issue whenever it is rainy.

Posted in Experience and Tips, Hanoi - the capital city, Northern Vietnam

Vanphuc silk village

There are a lot of ancient handmade village in our country, in which we have Vanphuc silk village where is the famous silk village of Hanoi to contemplate the genuine traditional silk-making industry.

The way to enter the village
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Posted in Mountains, Ninh Binh, Northern Vietnam

Ninh Binh – where mountain and river touch each other

We decided to discover Ninh Binh promptly, and that place welcomed us by a peaceful afternoon.

Traveling always expands our horizons.

Ninh Binh is about 90 km away from Hanoi, it is not too far, and easy transportation, where has forests, a diverse system of fauna and flora, The topography encompasses plains and the mountains of Vietnam northwest mountain range, and the river goes through mountains to create some amazing caves.

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Food and Drink, Haiphong food, Northern Vietnam

Food-tour in Haiphong city

Hai Phong is a famous city with phoenix flowers along 2 sides on almost streets, and especially, that place has a lot of scrumptious foods. Also due to loving foods, I booked a bus to visit Haiphong city for 2 days with a long list of street foods. That’s awesome, I loved it.

And, now I would like to share some famous foods of phoenix city and hope you could come and enjoy them.

Crab fried roll
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Posted in Experience and Tips, Hanoi - the capital city, Northern Vietnam

Lotus – Vietnam’s national flowers

From childhood , we have known by heart the folk song and the lotus flowers are alike to Vietnamese people’s symbol.

” Trong đầm gì đẹp bằng sen,

Lá xanh bông trắng lại chen nhị vàng,

Nhị vàng bông trắng lá xanh,

Gần bùn mà chẳng hôi tanh mùi bùn”

In English, we can temporarily translate as below

In the pond, the lotus flower is beautiful

Green leaves, white flowers, yellow stamens

Yellow stamens, white flowers, green leaves

Near mud but it does not stink like mud.

(Copy)

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