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Travel Tips
Traveling Vietnam During Tet: What You Actually Gain and Lose
Tet can be the most memorable or most frustrating time to visit Vietnam. Here's an honest breakdown of what actually changes — and how to plan around it.
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Food & Drink
What's in the Glass at Tet: Drinks, Toasts, and Welcome Rituals
From sticky rice wine to lotus tea, the drinks at a Tet visit follow their own quiet logic — here's what gets poured, when, and why.
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Travel Tips
Tet for Travelers: What's Open, What's Closed, and When It All Comes Back
Traveling Vietnam during Tet means navigating a country that briefly goes quiet — here's a day-by-day breakdown of what shuts down, what stays open, and when normal life resumes.
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Travel Tips
Tet Gift Culture: Li Xi, Lucky Money, and Family Visit Etiquette
If you're in Vietnam for Tet, you'll almost certainly be handed a red envelope — or expected to give one. Here's how the tradition actually works.
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Destinations
Dong Ho Painting Village: Folk Prints, Woodblocks, and a Craft Fighting to Survive
An hour from Hanoi, Dong Ho village has been carving woodblock prints for centuries. Here is what the craft actually involves and how to visit without wasting the trip.
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Travel Tips
Vietnamese Gift-Giving Culture: What Foreigners Actually Need to Know
Gift-giving in Vietnam has its own unwritten rules — get them right and you build real goodwill. Get them wrong and you won't even know it.
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Travel Tips
What to Bring When You're Invited to a Vietnamese Home
Showing up empty-handed is fine in some cultures. In Vietnam, it isn't. Here's what to bring, what to skip, and how to hand it over without causing awkward silences.
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Itineraries
Vietnam Over Tet: A 10-Day Trip That Uses the Closures Wisely
Tet shuts down half the country — but plan around it right and you get flower markets, empty beaches, and pagodas full of incense smoke and zero tour groups.
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Food & Drink
Banh Giay: History, Variants, and Where to Find the Real Thing
The round white rice cake that pairs with banh chung in Vietnam's founding myth — a guide to what banh giay actually is, how it's made, and where to eat it.
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