Hoi An and TET

We made it to Hoi An in time for TET, yeah! Hoi An is a UNESCO heritage site,and the Old Town is a showcase of old Japanese and Chinese influenced homes, temples, and assembly halls. We spent the day wandering and taking in the sights, Cam very much admiring the woodwork and droning on about the beautiful teak :-)

TET is the most important holiday in Vietnam, and is a mix of our New Year and Christmas. There are 3 days of public holiday, though most people take more. Families travel home to be together, there are big meals, TET cake is eaten daily, and offerings are made to the gods. New Year's Eve is celebrated similarly to home--people seemed to be with their families for dinner, and then out with friends for the evening, and there was a big fireworks display that went off at midnight.

Chinese Assembly Hall

This is what happens when Cam is irritating by repeatedly asking me to "be a dragon, be a dragon!"

Awkward as a man posed us in a series of about a dozen photos around this temple, of course obligating us to give him money afterwards. Don't know how we gave him our camera in the first place!

Hoi An makes beautiful lanterns, and they were displayed everywhere for TET

We slept in on actual TET day, Cam came down with a cold (sorry!), and we went for our usual coffee and noodles in prep for a big blog update!