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  1. The Royal Palace in Bangkok, seat of the Thai royal family. The palace complex overwhelms the visitor with a shimmering combination of gold leaf and colorful mosaics that cover all the buildings within the palace walls.


  2. A spirit house in Bangkok. Representing the survival of pre-Buddhist religious beliefs, such houses are commonly seen in the region today.


  3. Typical house with wash and TV antenna on a canal in Bangkok, Thailand.


  4. Temple of the Dawn, one of the many Buddhist sites in Bangkok.


  5. Sheets of rubber lying in a factory in Malaysia. From here, the sheets will be exported to a factory in Europe, where they will probably be processed into rubber tires.


  6. The interior of Shwedagon pagoda in Rangoon (today, Yangon). The temple was constructed in the fifteenth century, and the massive central stupa is covered with gold leaf.


  7. Lavishly gilded, the towering Shwedagon pagoda presides over Yangon, Myanmar. Many sacred relics of the Buddha are reputedly enshrined inside.


  8. Nineteenth-century colonial railroad station at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reminiscent of Mughal splendor.


  9. Replacing rubber plantations with palm oil trees, Malaysia is envisioning more lucrative agricultural returns as palm oil finds new use as automotive fuel.


  10. Statue of court official at the mausoleum of the nineteenth-century monarch Tu Duc at Hue, Vietnam.


  11. Imperial Palace at Hue, with communist flag flying overhead.


  12. An eclectic religion which selected elements from different world faiths, Cao Dai became popular in South Vietnam early in the twentieth century.


  13. The Cu Chi tunnels were an elaborate network of underground passageways and rooms constructed by the Viet Cong to hide from U.S. military operations. Shown here is a minuscule entrance.


  14. Theravada monks in a Khmer community in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam. About 300,000 Khmer live in Vietnam as the remnants of the old Angkor civilization. While most Vietnamese are Mahayana Buddhists, the Khmer follow Theravada.


  15. This boat, complete with TV antenna and dog, serves as home to a Vietnamese family.


  16. Turtle Island, set in the center of Returned Sword Lake in Hanoi, symbolizes the soul of the old Vietnamese city.


  17. Tai chi, as performed by these women in Hanoi, is an ancient Chinese form of exercise to control both mind and body, and is now quite popular in Vietnam,.


  18. Young woman selling Christmas decorations in Hanoi. There are over 3 million Catholics living today in Vietnam.


  19. This motorcycle, transporting an entire family in Hanoi, demonstrates one consequence of Vietnam's recent opening to the outside world.


  20. Ho Chi Minh's schoolroom in a village in central Vietnam. His father was a Confucian scholar and taught neighborhood children in this room to make a living.


  21. Although Ho Chi Minh requested to be cremated and have his ashes distributed over all three major regions of Vietnam, the government in Hanoi erected this grandiose mausoleum in the Soviet style to showcase his embalmed body.


  22. With over 75 million people, Vietnam has tried to encourage population control, as expressed on this billboard in Hanoi.


  23. Colorful Asian markets, such as this one in Hoi An, abound in fresh produce and gossip. Hoi An is one of the early trading posts in central Vietnam.


  24. Children the world over play soccer, regardless of the serious nature of their playground. Shown here is a match in an ancestral temple in Hoi An.


  25. Dancing girls on a wall at Angkor Wat, the Hindu temple in Cambodia. In dress and mannerism, the dancers are reminiscent of classical dancing in Southeast Asia today.


  26. The ruins of a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. After destruction at the hands of the Thai in the fifteenth century, the city was taken over by jungle growth.


  27. Posters attacking Pol Pot in Phnom Penh. After the removal of Pol Pot in 19 the new Cambodian government sought to destroy his reputation among the local populace.
   
 
   
 
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