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  South East Asia III  
       
       
  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.  
       
  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.  
       
  This boat, complete with TV antenna and dog, serves as home to a Vietnamese family.  
       
  Turtle Island, set in the center of Returned Sword Lake in Hanoi, symbolizes the soul of the old Vietnamese city.  
       
  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,.  
       
  Young woman selling Christmas decorations in Hanoi. There are over 3 million Catholics living today in Vietnam.  
       
  This motorcycle, transporting an entire family in Hanoi, demonstrates one consequence of Vietnam's recent opening to the outside world.  
       
  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.  
       
  With over 75 million people, Vietnam has tried to encourage population control, as expressed on this billboard in Hanoi.  
       
  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.  
       
  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.  
       
  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.  
       
  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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