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.
Peach blossom- a traditional Tet flower. Photograph: Arina VuuPeach blossom flowers in close lens. Photograph: Arina VuuPeach blossoms can be diverse in color, with different shades of pink. Photograph: Kieu AnhPhotograph: Kieu AnhPhotograph: Arina VuuPhotograph: Kieu Anh
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.
Kumquats signify luck, prosperity and good health. Photograph: Arina VuuA variety of vibrant flowers in Quang Ba Flower Market. Photograph: Arina VuPhotograph: Kieu AnhPlum Flowers. Photograph: Kieu AnhRed Azaleas (Do quyen do). Photograph: Kieu AnhSunflowers. Photograph: Kieu AnhChamelaucium (Hoa Thanh Lieu). Photograph: Kieu AnhHydrangeas (Cam tu cau). Photograph: Kieu AnhChrysanthemum (Cuc vang) and orange daisies (Cuc cam). Photograph: Kieu AnhFlowers often are wrapped in bouquets for commercial buyers. Photograph: Arina VuuA seller having a quick nap during lunchtime, behind her flowers. Photograph: Arina VuuVintage Tet, replete with aged Honda. Photograph: Arina VuuPhotograph: Kieu AnhA biker stops by looking for a peach blossom branch. Photograph: Arina VuuBoth sides of the street fully decorated with Tet trees and flowers. Photograph: Arina VuuVietnam’s answer to Barack Obama or the smile of a Kumquat garden owner in Tu Lien Market? Photograph: Arina VuuBeautiful woman. Beautiful blossom!
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!
