Tet escape 09

so there you go another posting after a brief pause. So Tet has finished for around 2 weeks now. Tet the VN new year where 90 million people will follow a thousand year ritual of clebrating the new zodiak calendar year. This year it will be the year of the buffalo, it means the buffalo meat will soar..hic hic my favorite meat.

One of the features of Tet its family based so being a Tay or foreigner its not applicable at all to sit around and clean the house , pray to the ancestors and eating Banh Chung, a reasy sticky rice cake filled with undefined meat and green bean.I ll leave that to them to galvanise..

Here you see the break out of Tet country and went to lovely Cambodia to enjoy the south coast with Sihanoukville , the Rabbit Island and Kep,the Khmer Rouge devastated French resort town.

Another lovely town is Hoi An, surely a rare highlight of beautiful architecture and Chinese preserved culture.

not too far away from Hoi An is the My Son. the capital of the Cham people who used to rule the Central and parts of the south of Vietnam. They flourished from the 7 th century till the 13th century when wars with the Khmer and Dai Viet proved too much.Sadly the masterful architecture has been destroyed by the invading Viets and from the few legacies you really can enjoy is this site.

Work is evolving at the moment and plans are to set up another blog to promote the school and inform our supporters.A facebook site has been created to reach out to the increasing popular social network site.Join our support network on facebook if you have an account of course.

To wrap things up , when i came back the Tet sphere was still around.it meant that shops were still closed.Awaiting the lucky date assigned by the fortuneteller. others took their chance or risks and opened up a week after Tet.Still they could get away with a drum band banging a beat like Timbaland!!AHA!

Tet 09