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PILGRIMS

After theTet festival many Buddhists go to the Perfume Pagoda (about 80km from Hanoi) in order to make offerings to Buddha and to purify themselves.

The journey to the pagoda is on a rowing boat. It takes about an hour. About
40 000 pilgrims a day take the metal flat bottom boats in My Doc. The boat journey lasts about one hour and you can see temples, rice fields, banana plantation as well as lots of egrets.

At the height of the festival there can be 5000 boats on the river.

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