Vietnamese Pagodas

In Vietnam they call Buddhist temples pagodas (the term temple is reserved for worship of ancestors or heroes).  So today, during a typhoon, I visited a pagoda.

It got a little bit sketchy when on the way back during the hour long rowboat ride down the river the rain was so bad we had to scoop water out of the sheet-metal row boat using water bottles cut in half.  Oh Vietnam.....

But the pagoda itself was really cool.  It wasn't what I was expecting at all as all the shrines are in caves, the deepest being considered the most important.  The picture above is the view out of the biggest caves (none of the pictures I took inside the caves are light enough).  Really interesting place, just a shame it was so wet.

Luckily my plane is still on schedule for tomorrow, so by tomorrow night I should be in Mumbai, India.  Then off to Hampi for a month of bouldering.