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  • Day 23

    Marble mountain

    February 5, 2020 in Vietnam ⋅ 24 °C

    I think that you all should know that to pick only 10 pictures when you are surrounded by so much beauty is almost impossible. I have included two videos to show you a small portion of this extensive grouping of caves.
    Again we have to climb stairs, many stairs and this is after we take a elevator up five floors already! At one point our personal tour guide asks if we wish to take the natural (hard) way or the easy way...I will give you 3 guesses, lol ready please. Some of the steps made of marble were just big rocks which made the As we travel from cave to caves each step, statue and temple are carved out from the actual mountain. Some of the statues are so beautiful and others are in a high location in the caves. We can hear Vietnamese music in the background if the monks are not singing at that time. Afterwards we have a quick stop in the town at the base of the mountain and we can clearly hear the monks singing again from the mountaintop.
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