| | Driving to the Civila Affairs Office with Elvin, our local guide. | |
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| | | Arriving at the office, with Maylin and gifts | |
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| | With Mei Yi a few minutes after her arrival | |
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| | Leaving Civil Affairs office, headed back to hotel | |
| | | Next day, visit to Six Banyon Tree Temple | |
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| | We've come for the Buddhist blessing | |
| | | Mei Yi checks out the bronze incense burner | |
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| | | Monks intones blessing before Buddha | |
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| | The blessing is complete, the girls get apples. | |
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| | visiting the rest of the temple complex | |
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| | offering insence to hoonor our ancesters | |
| | | learning how to bow and pray | |
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| | learning how to bow and pray | |
| | | learning how to bow and pray | |
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| | learning how to bow and pray | |
| | | One of the 3 enormous Buddha statues | |
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| | an kind old lady shows the girls a proper bow | |
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