Tet Festival

Month : January/February
Place : Vietnam
Famous For : Traditional Festival
Attractions : Food, Drinks, Blooming Flowers, Firecrackers, Public Parades and Carnivals

Tet Festival holds recognition as Vietnam's biggest event on social calendar. It'is celebrated in late January to early February throughout the whole country as a colossal event. Grand celebrations include people going all out in the most lavish of manners in order to celebrate the annual coming of Chinese New Year. This festival of Tet kicks off the Chinese New Year with a communal bang.

Major Attractions

The Tet Festival is a time for all loved ones to indulge in food and drinks. It's, predominantly centered on family and friends where they get together and pay respects to dead ancestors. The main highlights to attract you towards Tet festival include an ocean of blooming flowers, bursting with fresh, watery colors, as flower shows and stalls are a distinctly Vietnamese characteristic, and are displayed to symbolize the coming of spring throughout the country. Other attractions include public parades and carnivals which engulf the streets of Vietnam throughout the period. Dashing firework displays are also a major highlight of tet festival. It is believed that the loud bangs scare off evil forces from the coming year, thus the lighting of firecrackers provide an experience of extreme splendor and enthusiasm.