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Today is saturday morning, and I arrived on monday morning. Time flies and the number of new impressions is amazing. As to be expected I got a sore throat and a bit of an upset stomach but nothing to major. The air quality here in Hanoi is terrible. People cooking on coal on the street, and an amazing number of motorcycles buzzing around. We've heard 3 dharma talks by Thich Nhat Hanh (www.plumvillage.org), and they've been very interesting. The talk yesterday talked about the hunger of young people here for wealth and goods. But he was telling them that even some of the Fortune 500 CEO's who have come to retreats having told him about their unhappiness and misery. The talks are very well visited, with upwards of 300 people, many of them professors, embassadors etc. But also plenty of 'normal' people, that know his name from before he left in the 60's or through the underground movement, since his teachings were banned here by the communist. It is quite strange that when we where our grey delegation robes (see pics), lots of people are bowing. But they are not bowing to us personal, but to the greater delegation.

Tomorrow morning at 4am we are leaving for Halong Bay, where we'll be till monday night. I've added some pictures to the previous set
posted by Christian on Friday, March 25, 2005, 1 comments