 271 - Now this sounds interesting! |
 272 - Armed guards kicked me out of there almost immediately! |
 273 - The sekret buildings back in the zone (military defense bunkers). |
 274 - I have to ask my dad if this plane looks familiar. |
 275 - The military museum citadel towers over the restricted zone. |
 276 - Try as I might, I can't come up with a better caption than "some guy". |
 277 - This is the main thoroughfare to the Ho Chi Minh shrine. |
 278 - People are already lined up to see Uncle Ho. |
 279 - The entrance to the museum grounds. |
 280 - Ho Chi Minh museum, I'd visit that briefly later. |
 282 - The line out of the mausoleum after they gave me my camera back. |
 283 - HCM's presidential palace. It's good to be president! |
 284 - The presidential guest houses. |
 285 - The presidential pond. |
 286 - The building where Ho Chi Minh lived before the palace was built. |
 288 - Ho Chi Minh's study. |
 290 - Ho Chi Minh's big green gourd fruits. |
 291 - The palace gardens, very pretty. |
 292 - By the way, this mausoleum contains the preserved body of HCM on display. Kinda strange. |
 294 - The Ho Chi Minh museum entrance. |
 296 - Back into the city to arrange transport. |
 297 - Off across the countryside, our destination -- the famed Perfume Pagoda. |
 298 - Rural Vietnam on the way to the pagoda. |
 300 - Honored ancestors are buried in the fields so they can be close to the family who works there. |
 301 - Cool houses in the middle of a swampy pond. |
 302 - I think we must be there soon! |
 303 - Encounter with dangerous animals, part one. |
 304 - Encounter with dangerous animals, part two! |
 305 - This one wasn't dangerous! |
 306 - The dock from which the odyssey to the Perfume Pagoda begins. |
 308 - Fabled mountains rise in the far distance. |
 309 - Hardly another soul was to be found on this desparate journey. |
 310 - Lush verdania beckoned me ... |
 311 - Onward, to the doom shared by the ancient ancestors! |
 315 - This guy looks happy because his mom took over rowing the boat. |
 317 - A tribal fisherman hard at work. |
 318 - Me, posing as a tourist. |
 321 - Anyone want to ... "go direct"??? |
 322 - These peaks look like they'd be fun to scale. |
 323 - The descent into Hades... I mean the pagoda. |
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