NDO – Going to spiritual places in the first days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday has become a familiar cultural activity of many Vietnamese families. This year, due to the complicated development of the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of people travelling into temples and pagodas was not as large as in previous years, while epidemic preventive measures were strictly implemented. 

NDO - On the first morning of the Lunar New Year, the weather in Hanoi is pleasantly cool, the air is fresh, and the streets are peacefully quiet. 

NDO – Hanoi was flooded with golden sunshine and bustling shopping atmosphere on the last morning of the lunar year. 

NDO – In the days leading up to Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival, people in Nhat Tan peach blossom village in Tay Ho District, Hanoi, have been rushing to harvest blossoms to serve the market. 

NDO – As a customary act, on the 27th-28th days of the last lunar month, police officers from the Fire and Rescue Police Team (belonging to Hanoi’s Bac Tu Liem District Police) gather to make chung cakes at their unit to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. 

NDO – The ritual “Tien Xuan Nguu” (The ceremony of offering an earthen buffalo in Spring) of the Le Trung Hung Dynasty (16th to 18th centuries), a unique rite in the old court has been re-enacted at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in Hanoi. 

NDO - Living mainly in the northern mountainous region and also in the Central Highlands, the H’Mong ethnic minority people have their own language and traditional cultural identity. The 12th lunar month is considered the most exciting season in the year. 

NDO – In addition to mai anh dao (Prunus Cerasoides), cherry blossoms on O Long tea hill in Sapa, especially in Bac Ha town, in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai are blooming, creating an impressive spectacle. 

NDO – As Lunar New Year 2021 marks the Year of the Buffalo, gardeners in Tu Lien Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, are providing shoppers with kumquat bonsai trees placed in buffalo-shaped pots. 

NDO – The Tet flower market on the street of Hang Luoc, Hang Ma, is a unique fair each year, held once a year on the occasion of the traditional Tet holiday as a familiar beauty for Hanoi people in each spring. This is the flower market of the people in Hanoi’s Old Quarter in particular, and Hanoians in general, open from January 27 to 20:00 on February 11 (from 15th day to 30th day of the last month of the lunar month). 

NDO – In recent days, information on the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam has become the main focus across all publications in the press. In order to achieve this, hundreds of reporters and technicians have been working hard to bring readers onstream with all the updated official information. 

NDO – Forests in the Central Highlands region are entering their most beautiful season of the year when leaves on trees are changing to brilliant colours of red and yellow. 

NDO - The Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) has begun allowing the public to visit the S1 Station and a train of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line. 

NDO – During early spring, on top of Ba Na Hills, bell-shaped peach blossoms begin to bloom. This unique flower blooms only in the spring, when the cold season passes through each street, visitors can give themselves a quiet space to contemplate life in their company at the top of the Ba Na Hills.