Photo of the Day Archive for August 2005

by Albert Wen, Nov 15, 2006 | Destinations: Vietnam

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Van Mieu, or the Temple of Literature, was founded in 1070 as Vietnam's principal Confucian sanctuary and to honor Vietnamese scholars.

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