En route to the Perfume Pagoda
Incidents of Travel > Northern Vietnam > Ha Long

Being rowed upriver to the Perfume Pagoda from My Duc, about 60 km southwest of Ha Noi.

The Perfume Pagoda is actually a famous complex of Buddhist temples and pagodas built into the side of Huong Tich Mountain (Mountain of the Fragrant Traces). The culminating pagoda is actually a large cave.