The Perfume pagoda (Chua Huong Tich in Vietnamese) is a shrine in a cave on top of a mountain, about 60km southwest of Hanoi. The pagoda is accessed either by walking from the Den Trinh temple or by taking the cable car from the Den Trinh temple. The cave itself, i.e. the shrine, contains a number of altars and statues and is accessed via a staircase from the hill station of the cable car.
01 Huong Tich mountains 02 Huong Tich mountains cable car 03 Staircase to cave 04 Conical stalagmite 05 Temple bell
06 Cave with shrine 07 Main altar 08 Altars 09 Statues 10 Cave opening
11 Statues on altar 12 Vietnamese man in traditional costume
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