Yesterday we took a two part tour from Saigon and started at the Cao Dai temple. Cao Dai is a combination of Catholicism, Buddhism, Confuciousism, and Taoism. The temple is described by Graham Green as the Disneyland of the East. With bright colored walls decorated with brilliant flowers and lion-like dragons. The front of the temple has a carving of Confuscious, Buddha, Jesus and Moses. Victor Hugo is a follower of Cao Dai, and is supposed to be finding the third connection between God and Man. The joke just kept getting bigger - but it was an awesome sight to see all the followers, men in red, yellow and blue robes and the women in white file in to pray and bow - Muslim style.
Very interesting religious experience something akin to seeing the Magic Kingdom for the first time.
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