The Perfume Pagoda
January 3rd 2008 The visit to the mountain caves of Chua Huong was just as much about the journey there as the pagoda itself. After a two hour drive we arrived at the Song Yen River (or 'stream' as they called it. In Australia it would be a 'mighty river'). We were rowed up the river for an hour and a half by a Vietnamese girl who must have had arms of steel. She rowed in what seemed an awkward manner, facing the
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