Here are some pictures from a short trip I took with Sias at the beginning of December.
Cool drum tower downtown:
Not so roomy inside...
And steep stairs...
Red Flag Canal, outside of An Yang, was built in the fifties by workers from the area. They did not have the modern machinery that we use now, so many people died. One of my students from An Yang told me her grandfather worked on this canal.
From hiking trails around the canal:
This dragon reminded me of Smaug, from The Hobbit:
And a short clip of us climbing through one of the mountain trails at the canal: