Monday Blogcrawl

Vietnamese access to Facebook remains a mystery to me. Occasionally I will receive a flood of likes and comments from friends in Vietnam, and then nothing. Someone tells me Facebook is blocked, someone tells me it isn't. Anyway, this week I had a heap of posts from my VN friends, including lots of pics which made me so happy and so  homesick. Here are some stories about Vietnam that I stumbled upon over the past week:

 

The temple on Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, from Buried in Cliches blog.

• Vinh Nghiem Pagoda (the obsucre small one in the North, not the huge one in Saigon) has had its ancient woodblocks recognised by UNESCO. I seem to have posted about this story a million times - has it been an incredibly long and drawn-out process?
• The Bangkok Post tells Thai business people to start taking Vietnam seriously.
• An ultra-cool hotel in Dalat. I love Vietnamese architecture.
• They grew too much coffee in Vietnam. Again.
• The turtle found in Hoan Kiem Lake is one of the world's 100 most endangered species.
• Vietnamese sculpture enjoys a renaissance. And Pham Thai Binh looks kinda hunky.
• A great retro recording of David Halberstam, chronicler of the Vietnam War.
• Vietnamese authorities tell people not to trust Chinese fruit & veg.
• Some crazy was keeping children hostage at a kindergarten in my neighbourhood at Ho Chi Minh City!