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Recent Posts
- Rural Cambodia
- Banteay Chamaar – the middle of nowhere.
- Preah Vihear – beauty in a war zone
- KOTO restaurant Saigon
- Dong Khoi old and new – the streets of Saigon
- Free the Bears at Phnom Tamao
- Phnom Penh for a weekend
- Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens – a mixed bag.
- Vung Tau on a Sunday day trip
- Vietnam news stories
- Long Tan on Vietnam Veterans Day
- Koh Ker – a remote Angkor temple in the middle of land mines
- The streets of Saigon – Le Quy Don
- The kids of Kontum
- Kontum – the rites and rongs
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Kontum – the rites and rongs
The Central Highlands in Vietnam is a raised area of plateaus and rivers, mountains and jungles in the southern central area of the country, on the borders of Cambodia and Laos. Traditionally it was a very poor area, but the realisation … Continue reading
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Chua Giac Lam and Chua Giac Vien- temples of Saigon
Religion in Vietnam is unusual. The most common form of religion is ancestral worship mixed with some elements of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, if all of that is indeed a religion. Perhaps for this reason, there are fewer splendid … Continue reading
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