Events and festivals
Vietnamese events worth planning your trip around — and the ones to plan your trip around avoiding.
Tet (Lunar New Year)
The biggest Vietnamese holiday — late January or early February.
Mid-Autumn Festival
Lanterns, mooncakes, lion dancing — the children's festival.
Hung Kings Day
National founding-kings holiday at Phu Tho temples.
Reunification Day
April 30 — marks the 1975 fall of Saigon.
Hoi An lantern festival
Old town candle-light night, every lunar 14th.
Da Nang fireworks
June international competition over the Han river.
Sapa love market
Saturday night H'mong courtship — and the genuine Bac Ha Sunday market.
National Day
September 2 — Ho Chi Minh's 1945 independence declaration.