Deja Vu... again?
The definition of deja vu is "a feeling of having already experienced the present situation", and while this week's p-day adventure was to the same place (our 4th time), each time has been enough different that it's not quite a deja vu, after all. This time, we hiked from the bottom of the Thanh Giong Monument (also the Soc Son Temple) and discovered that the area is being totally renovated, and in another year it will look like a completely different place, with wide paths and cultivated lawns and gardens surrounding the old pagodas. It is losing its rustic charm, I think. There was once a small, old cottage where a part of the legend of Thanh Giong took place, where his mother gave birth and raised him, and that cottage is no longer there. It has been razed to the ground to make way for what, I'm sure, they think will be a very attractive visitor's area. I'm glad we saw it when we did, for all 4 times. And Allen says there may well be another time in o...