Happy New Year!!

At the moment, Vietnam is celebrating Lunar New Year! This year it's the year of the Goat. So everything is nicely decorated, flower markets are basically everywhere and everybody seems to lose their minds...

Since it is custom to give presents for Tet, I was visiting a lot of customers during the last 2 weeks. You normally bring a typical gift basket with some snacks, wine and other foodstuff. Once we visited as well a little candle factory. A very manual work:

Before Tet, traffic is getting worse and worse here in HCMC. In certain districts, traffic is so dense, that even walking is basically not possible anymore...

At the moment all streets are more or less empty. Most of the people went to their families in their hometowns. Meaning, most of the people living here, someday moved to HCMC for work, similar to China.

Point now is, that for the days during Tet, most of the shops and restaurants and business are officially closed. So, you should be prepared and fill up your fridge in advance with food.
But it's a good time to calm down a bit, clean up the desk and take some rest. Still have to figure out the GoPro video software and edit my first video. Might take another few days :)!