January 21, 2005

Hoi An, Vietnam

Silk Drying, Hoi An, Vietnam

Lantern Frames, Hoi An, Vietnam

One of the great handicrafts of Vietnam are the beautiful silk lanterns.

In Hoi An, shop fronts would be hung with many gorgeous lanterns of different sizes, colours and shapes, and you could peer through the darkness to the back of the shop where workers would be busily constructing hundreds of lanterns.

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Hanoi - The Temple Of Literature

Guard Statue - The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, Vietnam

Pete and I visited The Temple of Literature on Christmas Day, right after we had lined up and walked around a waxen looking Ho Chi Minh.

The Temple is the site of Vietnam's oldest university, there are pagodas, lily ponds and 84 stone stelae on top of turtles (which record the names of graduates of the University).

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