These peacekeepers from the Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 2 of Vietnam are hurrily wrapping chung cakes, decorating apricot and peach branches and rehearsing art performances.

PANO would like to introduce some images of the preparations.

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Hanging the national flag, an indispensable part of Tet celebrations in South Sudan
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Without fresh peach blossoms, Vietnamese peacekeepers make their own peach branches to ensure a cozy spring in a place with scorching weather 
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An altar worshipping Late President Ho Chi Minh with a tray of fruits, including a green papaya planted by Vietnamese peacekeepers
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Preparing banana leaves to wrap chung cakes because there are no phrynium leaves in Bentiu. Banana leaves were found and cut in Bentiu
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Ingredients for a chung cake, including green bean, glutinous rice is brought from Vietnam. Meat is provided by the UN
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Wrapping chung cakes in a distant country helps the peacekeepers feel closer to Tet in the homeland
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A warm Tet with comrades around the pot of chung cakes
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Tet atmosphere in Bentiu
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First batch of chung cakes brings traditional Tet to Vietnamese peacekeepers

Translated by Mai Huong