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Where to visit this Tet
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VietNamNet recommends places to go for the lunar New Year Festival (Tet).


Da Nang: The Spring Flower Festival will open at the 29-3 Park from February 12-20. The festival will introduce 1000 special items like artworks made of stones, orchids, rock-gardens, ornamental trees and fish.

The festival will also have exhibitions of Dong Ho folk paintings, landscape paintings, Cham potteries, calligraphic works, parallel sentences and games, besides singing competitions and shows.

The festival will have spaces for Kinh, Cham and Cotu culture, where they will introduce the life and the culture of these ethnic groups.

Hoi An town (Quang Nam province): On New Year’s Eve, fireworks will be let off at three sites, the Song Hoai square, the Cua Dai bridge and the Cu Lao Cham bridge.

The lantern festival and the New Year Eve festival will open on February 13 evening. From February11-19, many traditional cultural activities will be held in the ancient town to celebrate the New Year.

Hue city: Many folk festivals will be held in the city’s centre and neighboring areas. The My Loi rural market will open in the morning February 14 in Vinh My commune, Phu Loc district, around 40km from Hue city, introducing local specialties.

From February 14, another rural market will open on the Thanh Toan bridge in Thuy Thanh commune, Huong Thuy district, around 5km from Hue city, where folk songs of Hue people will be performed.

The swinging festival will also open on February 14 in Phuoc Yen village on the bank of the Bo River in Quang Tho commune, Quang Dien district, around 7km from Hue city. Another swing festival will be organized in The Chi Tay in Dien Hoa commune Phong Dien district and Sia town in Quang Dien district the next day. This is a special event where pairs of youth and elderly people join swinging competitions.

A traditional festival of fishermen will take place on February 19 in the Lang Co Bay, with boat racing and folk games. A wrestling festival will be held in Thu Le village, Sia town on the same day.

HCM City: a special circus show will be introduced at the HCM City Circus for the first time from February 14-18 (two shows at 9am and 8pm). The show groups up the best animal tamers in Vietnam with circus acts performed by 11 species and animals like bear, monkey, dog, wolf, goat, cat, bird, snake and crocodile.

The Youth Cultural House and the Street of Ong Do (Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Pham Ngoc Thach) will have various activities from now to February 19: cai luong shows, human chess, fashion and music shows, sepak takraw competition and martial arts festivals.

The Suoi Tien Park has inaugurated new entertainment centres, including an adventure game called “space shuttle”.

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