A Thousand Years of Culture
We've done our best in the past year and a half to explore a thousand (or more) years of Vietnamese culture and take pictures of as much of it as we can. And we've wanted to expose these young missionaries to the culture, as well. Allen remembers being in Japan as a young missionary, and wanting to spend as much time as possible learning about the culture and seeing the sights, as a way to learn to love the Japanese people. We feel the same about Vietnam and its people, and we're trying to indoctrinate these missionaries with that same feeling. Hence, another trip to Thanh Chuong's Viet Palace which, to me, is an amazing collection of Vietnamese cultural artifacts all in one beautiful, compact location. If you feel like you've seen some of these pictures before, you very well may have! I stopped wondering if I had taken a picture of something already and, if I liked it, just took another picture. ...