Cu Lao Gien (12/30/2012)

Still Sunday, December 30, 2012
After lunch we had a few hours of cruising. Passed brick factories:

Boys swimming:

Children waving:

A ferry with motorbikes:

Bridge construction pile driver:

At 16:30 we stopped for a shore excursion, being transferred in a water motorcoach:

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We would be going to church after all this Sunday. Cu Lao Gien is an island in the Mekong with a former convent established in 1875 by the French nuns of Saint Paul de Chartres. The majority of inhabitants are Catholic.
Someone's nativity scene:

Homework?

Family:

Barber:

Market poultry:

Foosball tables:

The parish church (completed 1889, renovated in 2003):

Interior:

Oh, they turned on the lights!

The church's nativity scene in a boat:

The cemetery:

Altar servers prepare for Mass:

Another nativity scene:

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This young man held his rooster so that it would not attack us as we walked by:

Bathing is done in the waterways:

Instead of pictures of Ho Chi Minh?

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Men on a Sunday afternoon:

At last, a Vietnamese nail salon:

Artocarpus heterophyllus/Jackfruit Tree:

This is great! (Great)Grandpa in a hammock while rocking the baby in a hammock:

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Yard decorations:

Basket weaving, but using longer-wearing plastic:

"Monkey" bridge:

Averrhoa carambola/Starfruit Tree:

Tamarindus indica/Tamarind Tree:

Rooster feeding:

Everyone is weaving baskets:

Heading back to the RV Indochina:

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Sunset:

A demonstration of Khmer traditional dress:

Tomorrow, Sa Dec 1 Brick Factory.