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The entrance to the cemetery. Very impressive. A
stone figure of their hero,
Vu Thi Sou, in the same area she was shot by the French in 1952. |
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The French used it as a graveyard for their prisoners from 1930 till 1954
when the South Vietnamese took over the running of the place.
The main monument. |
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Martin in front of the main
obelisk. Another simple stone for an unknown
soldier or prison inmate. |
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Offerings to Buddha, even
cigarettes. And a pig. Buddha don't mind pork. |
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One gravestone for a known soldier
or inmate. The markings for the unknown dead. |
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One big shot got his own special
grave. People are coming from all over Vietnam
to worship
Vu Thi Sou. They make a very nice mixture
of religion and politics. |
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Vu Thi Sau,
heroine of Vietnam.
Martin is having a rest. With his compulsory facemask. |
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memorial tree taken well good
care of. Martin having a rest. He is too old and
too fat for much walking around. |
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Funeral fire where they burn
offerings in paper form like dummy money. It is for the dead to use in the
afterlife according to their religious believes.
The fire itself. |
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Lighting things up.
Row upon rows of unknown dead. |
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A rain water pond.
More graves. |
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Phuong and Martin on
the way out. These signs are very informative
telling a little about the graves you see. |
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More grave information.
Phuong and Martin leaving the cemetery.
The monument in the background. |
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Martin doesn't know
what this is. Here in front of whatever it is. |
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Off to our last stop, a
temple on a mountain top. Martin tried, but it
was too many steps and turned around. |
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The steep stairs up,
numbers unknown. Martin leaving. |
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Phuong is on the top.
A normal temple. |
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Phuong on the top. Here you find a female
Buddha. |
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She looks lovely.
Phuong in front of it. |
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Con Son Quan restaurant
we visited later that day. Our driver that took
us around in his electrical car. Very convenient. |
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Bacon stew in a
traditional Vietnamese clay pot. Martin and
Phuong at the restaurant with very nice wooden chairs and tables. |
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The bacon was 70% fat
that Martin took out. He is fat enough. Phuong
with her two water bottles on the way back to the hotel. |
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This building looks
very old and overgrown from the hotel window, but it is not. A lot of
construction is going on.
This building is, on the other hand, overgrown. |
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In the evening, Martin
watched how they were shipping beer around. Amazing it works well. |
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