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We are now in the Ancient City of Hoi
An, Vietnam. Tonight is their famous
Full Moon Festival this festival, also
known as the Hoi An Lantern Festival,
is held every month on the night of the full
moon. It is celebrated with tons of people,
boat rides, performances, delicious food,
and most noticeably, the beautiful lanterns.
To give any indication of just how excited
we were to celebrate this holiday we spent
seven hours on a motorbike and 16 hours on
an overnight train just to make it in time.
Full Moon Festival or Lantern Festival depending
on what you want to call it falls on the 14th of
the lunar calendar so it's different than
our normal calendar. Today is actually the
11th but it is the full moon tonight and
so we're celebrating with a lot of lanterns
the festival is really a night festival because
it's the full moon and there's lanterns everywhere
so it starts around dusk which is right when
we got here and once the sun sets it gets
super super busy and I think it goes until
around 10 p.m which is way past our bedtime
since Buddha was born on and attained
Enlightenment on a full moon it is considered one
of the most sacred times on the Buddhist calendar
it seems is the time of transformation kind
of like a new year but it happens every single
month so you'll see lots of people meditating,
offering shrines to their family shrines, and
worshiping ancestors and of course because we're
in Hoi An which is a very touristy part of Vietnam
you don't see a lot of the traditional stuff
instead what you see is lots
of street food, street art,
those light up things that fly into
the sky, and making wishes in the river
and you'll notice we are on a street
without motorbikes which is a rare
sight to be seen here in Vietnam
but it's because they closed down
all these streets for pedestrians
only for the full Moon Festival
as we've been walking around we've seen
various street performances including Bai Choi
it's a full game that includes poetry acting
and music we didn't totally understand what
was going on but the crowd really seemed
to be into it and enjoying themselves
oh my gosh look at this line oh my God so
there's a traditional Hanoi (*Hoi An) dish
that you have to try and Hanoi (*Hoi
An) this place serves it and there
is a massive line so we're gonna get it
from this place but hopefully it serves
fast it's a really long line hello hi
how many uh yes uh can we get Cao Lau
yes okay sit inside okay
thank you thank you look for this
presentation I know it's beautiful
I don't know what this leaf is but it looks nice
is this a lotus flower honey beautiful cheers
for the most famous drink in this entire area
it's delicious
it's so good at this I said Cao Lau right
and I knew there was cinnamon in this tea
this dish is found only in Hoi An and because
it's a port city it is a mix oops it is a mix
of cultures in a bowl the thick noodles are like
udon noodles from Japan the crackling is like rice
crackers from China and these spices that are
blended in are Vietnamese in nature red pepper
chili sauce actual chili not doing that again
sorry I'm gonna delay this one chopstick skills
cheers
like all Vietnamese dishes is there's always
like a lot of different meats it's not like
a lot of meat it is but it's a lot of
different meat like this one looks like
there's like three different meats like this
and I don't I don't know what a single one is
fantastic both agree that is our favorite
dish so far in Vietnam and for 110 dong
you cannot beat that now we're heading back
to the river to try to secure a boat it's
still very very busy but they are letting
motorbikes back on the road it looks like
thank you this happened so fast but it was 150
dong for two people to get on a private boat
so romantic and there's still a lot of boats
out here there's an extra 50 for two lanterns
and we are off we are off it wastes no
time from ticket sale to boarding the boat
tradition goes that you put the lit
candle into the river as a wish for
good health and good fortune
we need both of those things
did you make a wish yeah will you marry me yes
the reason that Hoi An has the full Moon
Festival opposed to many other beautiful
cities here in Vietnam is because this used to
be a really popular Trading Post and since there
were so many foreigners visiting here back in
the 16th and 17th century there was a lot of
Japanese coming and they brought the lanterns
with them the lanterns used to be on everyone's
homes all times of the year but in 1998 the
local authorities deemed the full moon as
the perfect time to bring out all the lanterns
and have a big celebration and it's been going
on ever since and there are a ton of people who
travel from all over to be here in three two one
as we've been walking around we've seen various
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