Thousands of yellow stucco buildings remain, including the Governors' Palace and government buildings. The boulevards are wide and lined with large, beautiful trees. The streets are clean and the place even smells good. I like this town. One of the first visits in this town was a temple which was all too familiar by this time.
Chinese Temples are repositories of the history of the people and for ancestor worship.
The fable is that the Stork didn't want to get its feet wet and the turtle couldn't reach the food it needed in the trees. The arrangement satisfied the needs of both and is an important teaching for this people about banding together to meet the problems of the world. Our leaders should have checked out such fables before doing war in this country. In the very middle of the city is the citadel, still an army base. It was here and in the many parks around the center of the city that the North parked and marshaled their stores of surface to air missiles and military hardware in complete safety for years, since we were not allowed to hit military targets in the city until 1972.