What Is the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival? A Traveler's Guide to Tet Trung Thu

Every autumn, streets across Vietnam fill with red star-shaped lanterns, the smell of fresh mooncakes, and the beat of drums leading a lion dance through the neighborhood. This is the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival — known locally as Tet Trung Thu, and sometimes called the Vietnamese Moon Festival by English-speaking visitors. It's one of Vietnam's festivals that first-time visitors often notice without quite understanding what they're looking at.

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