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Beside the business of transportation of pilgrims, local people also work on their rice paddies that filled with water up to abdomen, or fishing. In this picture, the fisher was lighting up the lantern, getting ready for her night-shift trapping of eels, starting by sunset from a cave under the limestone mountain alongside Yen Vy River..

Every year, from 1st full-moon till 3rd full-moon (between February and April), Perfume Pagoda Festival draws hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country. We arrived during the first few days of the festival — a very popular place and event for young couples to meet and it is also a place where many budding romances are formed. During this time of the year, Ben Duc is packed with thousands of row boats used for shuttling visitors coming for the annual pilgrimage of Buddhists. Although there is a road from the pier to the base of Perfume mountain, most people choose to use row boats on the little river, which is by far the more romantic and scenic route to Perfume Pagoda.



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