So, its nearly time for TET 2015 and I get one week off work!
As I said before, TET is like Vietnam Christmas so there are lots of lights around the city and lots of stuff going on. Near my house is a big shopping mall with a lake. Its the same lake where they had the big inflatable duck a year or so ago which cause lots of traffic chaos.
Anyway, this time they had a big TET market in the same area with lots of stuff going on. Apart from the crowds it was pretty good. Its only a 15 minute walk so wisely we left the motorbike at home. The river was really nice, they had made some mock houses of famous buildings in Vietnam. One is Benh Thanh market in district 1. The second is a temple in Hue and finally the last one is the building on the big lake in Hanoi.
As you can see above it looks good and it has 'Chuc mung nam moi' in the set up which is Vietnamese for 'happy new year'
Next there was lots of rice fields made up which also looked pretty cool. It was actually real rice too. It was very nice to look at and presented a good opportunity for taking photos.
Also there was an enormous flower and clothes market. Now this place was very busy as I hope the photos below show. Didn't enjoy this part as much as I'm not much of a shopper and even less of a fan of crowds.
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| Lots of flowers and people |
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| Queue for parking - I'm glad I left the bike at home |
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| The river area - lots of people |
Anyway, off to a nice small Island for TET in a few days. Will let you know how it goes.
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