Tet holidays coming up

Next week Vietnam celebrates Tet, the Lunar (Chinese) New Year. This week all preparations are being made. Meaning it is virtually impossible to get through anywhere. Roads are jam packed, with people rushing here and there to get "everything" done, all motorbike drivers are busy transporting giant cumquat (a kind of small orange) trees here and there, just as indispensable as a Christmas three back home.

Here nothing is too big for two wheel transportation.

Yesterday, Hana came home with some tratidtional Tet food - banh chung, which she hade made in school and proudly ate for snack: a giant piece of sticky rice with mung beans and meet, cooked overnight in banana leafs. Actually not very yummy at all.

This year we will try what Hanoi is like during the holidays - supposed to be a very special experience, and very important to make sure you have enough food at home, as absolutely everything shuts down.