On to Ancient Rome

From the opulence of the Vatican to imagined opulence of Ancient Rome. It's hard to imagine constructing the Colosseum, especially without cranes. The interior must have been impressive especially when filled with spectators watching what ever games were occurring.




Approaching the Colosseum.




The interior.

From there I explored the posh residential district of the Palatine. This was where the emperors and high officials lived.




A little garden.

Then on to the Forum.


Looking down the Sacred Way.

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The Vatican with 27000 of my closest friends

Spent my first full day at thenVatican. The place is amazing. I think they most of the art of the world. The lines are long, but move fairly quickly. One can join a tour to decrease the wait, but I really wanted to see it at my own pace.


St. Peter's Square




In the museum




A fresco by Raphael





The main alter in the Basilica


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Halong Bay

Well I'm back at the Hanoi Hilton having spent the last three days in Halong Bay. Pictures don't really capture the place, but I'll add some here.










I'm going to save the rest for when I see you.

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Final Day in Phan Rang

The team finished the last day of surgery on Thursday and celebrated with the local nurses and OR help. It was a nice evening at one of the beach hotels with Keroke by the pool.


Some of our local hosts




The chief of ENT entertaining us.

We got on the bus for Saigon, where some returned to the US, some to Cambodia, and I went to Hanoi to spend 2 days on a junk boat in Halong Bay.
More when I get back to Hanoi.

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Dalat

For the weekend I decided that rather than going to a beach resort I would got to the town of Dalat, which is in the mountainous part off Vietnam. One does not think of Vietnam as mountainous, but much of the country is. We had a 4 hour ride up some rather steep roads with many switchbacks.




The road to Dalat

Once there we were treated to many interesting sights, including several Buddhist temples.





We also visited a large flower park and saw a beautiful exhibit of orchids.




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Food

They say an army travels on it's stomach, well so does a Resurge team. Each day we are given lunch made by a local woman. Today we had a lamb sausage, sweet potato, fried sticky rice and mango.

Our lunch
Just in case we hadn't enough, we decided to have "street food" for dinner. That meant we went to one of the local eating places that on the sidewalk. This one served a type of soup which had quails eggs, bean sprouts, peanuts and a type of ham as well as noodles in a broth.

My dinner.
Another place specialized in a sort of crepe. Hope to go there next week.

The crepes.
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Ytron

Ytron is an 18 month old child from one of the mountain villages. He was born with a cleft lip. When his mother heard a team was coming she walked for several hours and the took a bus, spending about 8 hours total time to get to the hospital. She arrived the day after we had clinic and the schedule was fairly full. The team decided that we would add him to the next days schedule even if it meant the day would run a little longer.




Before his surgery.




After his surgery.






With his Mom, nursing.

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