I and my colleague, Roy Jones, whom I've known for years had an opportunity yesterday, Sunday, to stroll around this city and came across some lovely gardens in the heart of town - not far from the Sanouva hotel where we're staying. I was surprised to see so much greenery in Vietnam's largest and possibly most congested city, but it took us an hour and a half to probe its delights and, perhaps being a Sunday, it was crowded with families, children's groups, and overseas visitors.
Someone perhaps practising martial arts.
There were heaps of kids who looked like boy scouts or girl guides all kitted out in similar uniforms and we got the possibly mistaken impression that some jamboree was taking place.
We came across this lovely Buddhist temple after having just visited a lovely Hindu temple - more about that later.
This looked like a replica of a sacred Hindu mountain we had seen earlier. While, in the next picture, I posed at some structure of apparently religious significance.
A pile of motor bikes!
The park had many sculptures like this one - believe it or not an image of Beethoven, although his name is misspelt!
Here's a tiger prowling the lawns.
And this guy was playing his saxophone beautifully!
Inside it was a great delight with ornate images of a constellation of gods around the walls, people praying to various divinities, images of sacred mountains, and so on. We were allowed to wander around with our shoes on and parts of our bodies exposed provided we did not enter the really sacred bit behind some pillars.
I've been around many Buddhits temples in Japan, but I cannot remember previously being in a Hindu one.
AS
Someone perhaps practising martial arts.
There were heaps of kids who looked like boy scouts or girl guides all kitted out in similar uniforms and we got the possibly mistaken impression that some jamboree was taking place.
We came across this lovely Buddhist temple after having just visited a lovely Hindu temple - more about that later.
This looked like a replica of a sacred Hindu mountain we had seen earlier. While, in the next picture, I posed at some structure of apparently religious significance.
The park had many sculptures like this one - believe it or not an image of Beethoven, although his name is misspelt!
Here's a tiger prowling the lawns.
And this guy was playing his saxophone beautifully!
Here's the Hindu temple I mentioned earlier - a mixture of the plain and exotic externally.
Inside it was a great delight with ornate images of a constellation of gods around the walls, people praying to various divinities, images of sacred mountains, and so on. We were allowed to wander around with our shoes on and parts of our bodies exposed provided we did not enter the really sacred bit behind some pillars.
I've been around many Buddhits temples in Japan, but I cannot remember previously being in a Hindu one.
AS
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