A short video of the river at the Perfume Pagoda today.

It's the start of the Perfume Pagoda Festival for 2007, so the place was packed with Buddhist pilgrims. The pagoda itself is a series of shrines in a limestone cave, at the top of a mountain. To get to the pagoda you take a boat up the river, and then climb up the path to the top of the mountain. The river was packed - visiting the pagoda during the festival is especially auspicious.

We arrived at the boat landing and decided to take the cable car up to the pagoda - it was raining and I was in flipflops! The queue for the cablecar was sooooo long, and there was lots of crazy pushing involved. Needless to say I made it to the front before Michael - who patiently waited until he was carried through by the masses. I am a professional queue pusher.