"I would like to buy some incest"

This is our amazing tour guide we had today who took us around the chinese sector in town. He showed us several pagodas, where we lit spiral incense with a wish attached to it that burns for seven days hanging from the ceiling of the pagoda, took us through the largest market in Ho Chi Minh, where you weren't allowed to buy one hat, you had to buy 10 at least there were insane quantities of everything there, and showed us the museum of traditional medicine, where we tried out different types of teas and natural oils. The best thing about him was that he was actually a monk from Cambodia. He decided at one point that he wanted to be a tour guide and in order to do that he had to leave the country because apparently as long as he lives in Cambodia, he remains a monk. He had incredible knowledge about buddhism and at one point he ripped off a leaf off a tree and gave each of us one. These were buddha leaves that will bring luck to you so I've carefully stored mine... Wouldn't want to mistreat a lucky leaf given to me by a monk... I'm pretty superstitious as you may guess.

This picture was taken at the first pagoda where he showed us this tree that had flowers resembling the mouth of chinese dragons. Great last day.

Oh and the title of the blog is something my mom said to the tour guide at one point. She was trying to say incense... She didn't know what incest was, I really hope the monk didn't either.