Each March, as Bali prepares for the eerie silence of Nyepi, grotesque effigies of demons and witches are paraded through the streets before being set aflame. Yet not all are consigned to fire, some escape their ritual death and find a resting place in the Ogoh Ogoh Museum, a shadowy graveyard of towering statues where the spirits of chaos seem forever frozen in time.

Perched at the edge of Hanoi’s scenic West Lake, Quán Thánh stands as one of Vietnam’s most venerable Taoist temples. Believed to have been founded during the reign of Emperor Lý Thái Tổ in the 11th century, the temple was originally built to honour Trấn Vũ, the feared & revered Taoist deity known as the “Guardian of the North".