Vietnam: Tet (Vietnamese New Year) celebrants at the entrance to Tran Quoc Pagoda, Ho Tay, Hanoi. Hanoi’s oldest temple, Chua Tran Quoc, sits on a tiny island just west of the causeway at Ho Tay (West Lake). The pagoda’s precise origins are unknown, but according to legend it was originally established by the banks of the Red River during the reign of King Ly Nam De (544-548) in a brief interregnum during the millennium of Chinese occupation. Vietnam’s greatest national holiday is Tet – more properly, Tet Nguyen Dan, ‘Festival of the First Day’ – coinciding with the first day of New Year.

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