Sunday, May 4, 2008

Perfume Pagoda

We have been gone the last 5 days and so are finally catching up. It's good to be back in Hanoi!

Wednesday was Reunification Day, so Bill and I took took the day to visit the Perfume Pagoda -- a two hour bus ride, one hour boat ride, short hike, and cable car to the top of a mountain.


There are thousands of boats and the families have a lottery to decide who gets to row tourists.





There were hundreds of little shops set up on the way to the pagoda, but it was the last day of a three month festival and they were all getting ready to go home. These animals were hanging outside one of the restaurants -- I guess as advertising.




This boat was taking some families and their merchandise. The other nine months of the years, most of these people farm.




The Pagoda is in a cave and beautiful. The Dali Lama visited last year. I really admire him for making this journey at his age.

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