Revellers ring in Lunar New Year across Vietnam
Friday, 07:16, 31/01/2014
(VOV) - Vietnamese people from across the country on January 30 took to the streets to welcome in the Year of the Horse. Let’s tour around Vietnam on New Year’s Eve through pictures.
Praying for good health, happiness and success at Hanoi’s Van Nien pagoda |
A fireworks display lighting up Danang sky |
Offering incense to ancestors of a family in Berlin, Germany |
A fireworks display in Hanoi |
Watching fireworks displays in HCM City |
A fireworks display over the Xuan Huong lake in Dalat |
Millions of revellers waiting for sparkling fireworks displays |
At a floating stage on Tau hu – Ben Nghe canal in HCM City |
A New Year’s Eve art performance in Kon Tum City in the Central Highlands |
Hue resident gathering in front of Phu Van Lau |
Hanoi revellers converging on Hoan Kiem Lake |
Local residents took to the street in Buon Ma Thuot City in the Central Highlands |
Le Tu Phuong was happy after giving birth to a baby in Hanoi |
Da Lat city in Lam Dong province at 21.30 |
Policemen on duty to ensure security for Tet celebrations |
An art performance for ethnic people in Son La province in the North |
People packing both sides of the Han River in Danang |
At Hoan Kiem lake in capital Hanoi at 21.00 |
A New Year’s Eve party of a Vietnamese family in Berlin |
Hanoi people going to Tay Ho Temple |
Doctors on duty at the Hanoi Paediatrics Hospital |
Thanh Hoa city decorated colourfully to welcome in the New Year |
Making Banh Chung, a special savoury Tet cake, in Taiwan |
Preparing a special party on New Year’s Eve in Taiwan |
Offering incence to ancestors on New Year's Eve in Hanoi |
Enjoying the party altogether is a fine tradition of Vietnamese people on New Year's Eve |