Phap Van Temple

It's amazing how a structure is made to bring peace and harmony to its people. Phap Van temple is centrally located in the bustling city of Ho Chi Minh City.  While here, I practiced mindfulness, meditation and stretching exercises (yoga). This is the same temple dharma teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, held his first demonstration to protest the Vietnam War.  This is the same temple where five of his followers were shot and killed by the South Vietnam Army. The South Vietnam Army thought Hanh and his followers were communists. The Viet Cong thought Hanh was an American puppet.   Eventually, Hanh was exiled. Just recently, he has been able to visit his homeland again in 2004. 

Morning exercise.  And no, that is not a shower curtain pole.

Fieldtrip to Taipei, Taiwan

Everybody looks bored and miserable. Except for the tourist who insisted that her daughter, Tiffany to take a picture of her and the Taiwanese children. 

The Turning Point

…for my stomach was in Taipei, Taiwan. Thank you for the gourmet airplane food China Airlines. Thank you for giving me the weakened opportunity to become sick  because of your airplane food. 

Our tour guide, Sal Woo taking a picture of our group. 

This is me two hours prior to becoming sick.

China Airlines Food

How do you say "Not" in Chinese?

 As in "This congee rice soup with imitation peas accompanied with a  dehydrated bread bun is  delicious!" 

"NOT!"

First thangs 1st

Keep tabs on me where ever I go! Well no, not really. I'm going to record my travels on this mass media thingy since everybody keeps telling me to jump on the blogging bandwagon. O.K. fine, I've jumped. Now what do I do?