Dear Travellive readers,
For the upcoming Tet holiday, the year of the goat, you will have a chance to contemplate the spring flowers, the simple but royal apricot flowers in Hue and the orange mandarins in bountiful orchards of Dong Thap province in the south, along with Binh Dong wharf, the only floating market in Saigon, selling a variety of flowers every Tet occasion. Meanwhile, the North is bustling with traditional festivals, which respect the strength and chivalry spirit of Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese traditional Tet is so impressive that a foreigner is enchanted. This Rusian expert of Vietnamese studies will share her interesting view points about apricot flowers, peach blossoms, lucky money, Chung cake and other symbols of Tet.
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