ColleenK

Colleen Kennealy

Female

Minnesota, USA

About ColleenK

Member since 7th Sep 09

Citizenship: USA
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Insurance
Hobbies:

Photography

Favourite places:

Moss Garden in Kyoto, Japan
Lake Palace in Udaipur, India
Stained Glass in Chartres, France
Li River at Guilin, China
Strolling through the Cardo in Jerusalem
Sunset in Monterey, California
Nitobe Japanese Garden in Vancouver, BC

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Latest Blog Entry

Cao Dai Temple and Cu Chi Tunnels

Posted by ColleenK | 21st October 2009

Wednesday's tour began with a drive out of town to see the Cao Dai temple service at noon. It is a relatively new religion, founded in the 1920s--a combination of Buddhism, Confusianism, Christianity, and Taoism.

Quite an impressive prayer service with incense, traditional Vietnamese music, and members of the community in long robes, mostly white, but some red, yellow, and blue.

We had lunch along the way and I spoke to a young woman in our group who is from Indonesia. She works in community relations for an Australian gold mining company operating in her country. She lives on the job site and works for four weeks straight, then gets two weeks off, so she travels quite a bit with good deals on AirAsia.

Our final stop was for a visit of the tunnels at Cu Chi. Apparently, they were originally started during the war against the French in th

Continued | Colleen's Travels