[Photo series] The flora of Tet: from kumquat trees to peach blossom

Tet Nguyen Dan or Tet holiday is the biggest, brightest and most blooming brilliant festival in Vietnam: a time to feast, look ahead to the new year and wear your best clothes, not to mention buy, sell and decorate your home or business with as many pretty flowers and plants as possible. At this time of year the city is positively alive with color. It’s enough to make the soul soar.

If you are lucky enough to be in Vietnam during the Tet Holiday, you would be well advised to spend some time in the heart of a flower market, but if you haven’t fear not for Chào has done it for you.

Here are a few of our best shots on a recent visit to a Hanoi flower market.

Alongside the peach blossom the most popular decoration you will see across Vietnam is the Kumquat tree, which can be seen everywhere pretty much everywhere.

Here at Chào, we very much hope you are enjoying the city’s trees and flowers as much as we are. Chuc mung nam moi!

All photography by Arina Vuu and Kieu Anh.