1.07.2011

Paying Respects: Graves, Shrines, and Temples

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The brave adventuresses before the voyage to Myloi.


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Rain is no impediment to mopeds, just throw a $2 parka over the rider, bike, and any passengers and away we go. In the background flies the yellow star on red.


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This was the "large" one lane road of the highway, with steep shoulder into leech infested waters of unknown depth.


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The front gate of Uan's childhood home as seen from the porch


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The aforementioned porch


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Yes that's a banana tree just off to the left of the column.


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The familial shrine


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Paying our respects


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"Is that a ball of string?" — Lan


"No, sweetie, that's a dead spider." — Mike


Spider moves


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Lan's paternal great grandparents


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Lan's paternal grandfather


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Enjoying drizzling tranquility


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Foreground, my beautiful wife, inadvertently in the background the Nguyen family temple


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The Land of the Dead


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Uan pays respects at his grandfather's grave, in the background lies his grandmother's resting place.


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Paying respects at Lan's great grandfather's grave


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Grandfather's grave: the family pays their respects.


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On the path to meet some extended family on her father's side.


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Before the Nguyen family temple


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No I'm not wearing black latex pants but rather really wet brown khakis.


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The porch "antechamber" to the family temple, unfortunately the temple proper was barred to us as the caretaker wasn't home during our visit.


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The Lady and the Dragon


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A view from the temple "porch"


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A miniature mountain island situated on the temple grounds with miniature figurines symbolizing an idealized life.


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A water buffalo pulling a load past the house


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Driving down narrow streets, just wide enough for the van.


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Two fathers have coffee with their daughters



2 comments:

  1. It's good to show the Origin, where they came from. It remind me a lot about my chilhood too.
    Thanks for sharing your thought

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