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Traditional festivals in Vietnam
Most Vietnamese festivals are
fixed by the
lunar calendar: the majority take place in
spring, and the days of the full moon (day one) and the
new moon (day fourteen or fifteen) are particularly
auspicious. All Vietnamese calendars show both the lunar
and solar (Gregorian) months and dates (Please check
with our staffs for the exact date. Visitors may
experience difficulties during this period as shops,
restaurants and public services close and prices tend to
go up in the few shops that remain open.)
Tet Nguyen Dan , or
simply Tet (Festival), is Vietnam's most important
annual event; it lasts for seven days and falls sometime
between the last week of January and the third week of
February, on the night of the new moon. This is a time
when families get together to celebrate renewal and hope
for the new year, when ancestral spirits are welcomed
back to the household, and when everyone in Vietnam
becomes a year older.
Festivals of interest to tourists
include the Water Puppet Festival held at
Thay Pagoda, west of
Hanoi; Buddhist festival at the
Perfume Pagoda , west
of Hanoi and
Trung Thu Festival,
also known as Children's Day, when dragon dances take
place and children are given lanterns in the shape of
stars, carp or dragons.
See
Vietnam lunar calendar
Public Holidays in
Vietnam
January 1: New Year's Day (one-day holiday)
April (on the 10 of 3rd Lunar month): Ancestor
Worshipping Anniversary (one-day holiday)
April 30: Saigon Liberation Day (one-day holiday)
May 1: International Labor Day (one-day holiday)
September 2: National Day of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam (one-day holiday)
Vietnam Traditional Lunar New Year Festival - Tet Nguyen
Dan (four-day holiday). The holiday begins on the last
day of the last
lunar month and lasts through the first
three days of the first
lunar month.
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Source: Vietnam Nation Administration of Tourism |
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