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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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Laos – the things that surprised us…

On Thursday January 26th, 2017Wednesday January 25th, 2023 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, Burma/Myanmar & LaosTagged Buddha Park, capital, Chao Anouvong Park, cheap, COPE, Don Det, Don Khon, food, French, Hilux, jedzenie, karaoke, Lao, Laos, Luang Prabang Vientiane, Mekong, motorbike, Pak Beng, Pakse, Patuxai, people, Phonsavan, Sikaset Museum, Southeast Asia, temple, That Luang, Toyota, transport, Vang Vieng, whiskey, whisky3 Comments

Previously we knew Laos only from stories. Firstly, we heard that this is an extremely cheap country. Secondly, that we would easily be struck by poverty as it is the case in Cambodia or Myanmar.. Hmm, we started to doubt it as soon as we arrived there and noticed Toyota Hilux vans and other cars of leading automotive brands passing the roads here and there, even in small villages. There are very few old cars on the roads, the rest of them look like brand-new ones. What’s more? We also heard that Lao people are extremely open and communicative (resembling Sri Lankan people in this way).. Hmm, well, and here again we have a doubt .. So how does it really look like?

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