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Vietnam: what things disappointed us vs. what made us want to come back for more!

On Wednesday February 8th, 2017Thursday May 3rd, 2018 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged beach, Bitexco Financial Tower, bread, cau lau, cheat, Chinese, Coconut Tree, Da Lat, Dalat, French colony, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoa Lo, Hoi An, hot pot, kaszanka, lampions, Lunar New year, market, mountain, Museum, noodle, pancake, paradise, Phu Quoc, pierogi, prawn, prison, pristine, roll, rubbisg, Sapa, soup, temple, Tet, tourist, Vietnam, Vietnamese, yellow bird8 Comments

Before going to Vietnam we kind of couldn’t wait for this experience counting the days until we got there. We heard a lot about Vietnamese cuisine considered to be one of the best in Asia, we heard about friendly and hospitable people we were going to meet there and we hoped that it would be less touristy than Thailand. We got a little disappointed by some situations and people and we thought that at some point Vietnam turned out to be jinxed in our case (especially we had the impression that we had bad luck with people that we were coming across during our journey). Later we changed our minds a little bit and found some pluses in regards to people, tourism and Vietnamese cuisine.

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Vietnamese New year – how is it celebrated in Hoi An?

On Tuesday February 7th, 2017Sunday November 19th, 2017 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged 2017, altar, Anbang, ancestors, Banh Tet, beach, cau lau, Chinese, ciasto, colonial, Da Nang, death, dziedzictwo, French, gifts, gio lua, Hoi An, holiday, homestay, karaoke, kleisty ryæ, Kwiatkowski, lampions, lampiony, Light Festival, Lunar calendar, Lunar New year, mandarin, Marble Mountains, Mickey Mouse plant, New Year, ochna integerrima, palenie banknotów, Rok Koguta, Rooster Year, sajgonki, spring rolls, sticky rice, styl kolonialny, style, temple, Tet, tree, UNESCO, vietnamese sausage, Vietnam, Wietnamski Nowy Rok, wishes, world heritage12 Comments

Tet Nguyen Dan (known as ” Tet ”) is the most important Vietnamese holiday. This is the period when the Vietnamese celebrate the Lunar New Year (the date is taken from the lunar calendar). It is a movable feast, which falls at the end of January or in early February – at exactly the same time as the Chinese New Year. This year the Vietnamese have celebrated the New Year on January 28. It is said that the celebration lasts normally 3 days, but in practice we saw it continued up to 1 week and it significantly differed from the typical New Year celebration in Europe. There are no grand balls and parties, it rather resembles the Polish Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when gifts are handed in to relatives who gather together at a big table covered with lots of nice food. Let’s have a closer look at it then 🙂

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