A politician’s pagoda
August 17th, 2009
Cau Dong pagoda, one of Vietnam’s oldest religious sites, honours Tran Thu Do, a crafty politician who usurped control from the Ly Dynasty and founded the Tran Dynasty in the name of his nephew in the 13th century. Hang Duong is one of Hanoi’s oldest streets. As the names suggests, this was once where sugar [...]