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Full Moon festival in Hoi An

Reply from: ACwiklinska@gmail.com
Date: 01 Apr, 14:59
Hi

could anyone help me with the dates of the full moon festival in Hoi
An in April? All the websites just say that it is 14th day of the
lunar month...

Many thanks
Adriana

Reply from: Gerald Oliver Swift
Date: 01 Apr, 15:27

<ACwiklinska@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1c43ee97-8a54-4f1c-bc05-42cf4e7abcdd@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> could anyone help me with the dates of the full moon festival in Hoi
> An in April? All the websites just say that it is 14th day of the
> lunar month...

http://wikitravel.org/en/Hoi_An states that Hoi An's Full Moon Festival, aka
Old Town's Night - held on the 14th of every lunar month, one night before
the full moon, when the Old Town becomes even more festive than usual (which
is saying something). Usually starts around 6:30pm.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=95&month=4&year=2008&obj=moon&afl=-11&day=1
gives the full moon in Vietnam as falling on April 20th this year

Finally, http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/amlich/vncal_engl.html
confirms that the 14th day of the Vietnamese lunar month in April this year
actually falls on 19th April.

So April 19th it is - have fun!
Gerry






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