Thap Rua or "Tortoise Tower"
Originally uploaded by bastchild.
This is one of the islands in Ho Hoan Kiem or "Lake of the Restored Sword". There is a Vietnamese legend that is similar to King Arthur and Excaliber and the sword emanating from the Lake. Instead of a maid of the lake, it was a tortoise that took the sword back, so hence the name of the lake. Interestingly there have been a couple giant tortoises sightings. A speciman of "Rafetus leloii" was almost 600 lbs and six and a half feet long.
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