Tết is a celebration of Spring!

Tết or Lunar New Year is a big holiday in Vietnam. People spend a lot of time cleaning, decorating and getting ready. Then they travel to visit their family. The whole thing can last up to 10 days. Lots of businesses close, even shops close for a few days, at least 3, sometimes up to 6, not like the single day for US holidays. This year it is Jan 26.

This is the year of the water buffalo. People feel that it's going to be a tough year, and that you'll have to work as hard as the buffalo have to to be successful.

This display is a temporary display, currently placed down the middle of one of the main boulevards in Saigon. They build the little brick wall and everything, and it all gets taken down a few days after Tết.

Street sweeper and typical traffic

Chinese Money - represents wishes for wealth

Calligraphers - represents wishes for knowledge and learning