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Cuu Long, the Dragon of Nine Heads
 
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Sue and Sarah woof crispy-fried grouper.

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What?

  

No, seriously.

What?

  

Near the Cambodia border, this mountainside temple whose name I forgot.

  

  

Jade takes photos on the terrace.

  

The Bearded Vagabond Bowling Buddha.

  

Sarah enters the spooky serpent cave of Buddhist Kitsch.

  

Near the Cambodian border is a large population of Cham people.

Since about 40 BC, the Vietnamese have been slooowly migrating south from China, pushing native populations out of their way.

  

At one point, the Cham fled to Borneo to escape genocide at the hands of the Vietnamese.  They holed up for a few generations,adopted Islam, and then came back.  Most Muslims in Vietnam are Cham.

  

Muslim school.

  

View from the back of the mosque.

I wish I had a better picture.  This scene is quite common.  Miles and miles of rice.

  

  

These floating houses sit atop huge house-sized nets.

Each house is a separate fish farm.

  

The fish business can be quite lucrative, but it's capital intensive.  You need to sink at least $100,000 for a year, before you see profit.

  

Plus, you have to REALLY like the smell of fish.

  

This guy operates his fish farm without a house.

  

  

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