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Home to the tallest wooden pagoda in the world or something like that...

In 1990, most of the streets were muddy tracks covered in the garbage chucked from the adjacent homes for the pigs to forage around (and crap) in.  Very unsanitary, particularly as there were street vendors showing off their wares from the very same filthy surfaces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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