So this is kind of two trips squished into one blog, made to seem like one trip but just go with it ☺️
The first thing we did in Hanoi was take a cab to the Ho Chi Minh Museum. It's basically a shrine to Vietnam's favourite revolutionary- the Che Guevara of Vietnam. He was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, he was both the prime minister and the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). He was on the ground floor in the formation of the DRV, the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. The museum to him was really, really crazy. Full of artifacts from his life, slips of paper he had written on, his spectacles, the cabin he had lived in was moved onto the museum grounds. Jared kept expecting to turn the corner and find toilet paper he had used :S
The outside of the museum
Uncle Ho himself
And his spectacles
This is his mausoleum, his fully embalmed body resides here but spends one month out of the year in Moscow being refurbished......whatever that means. We weren't there at the right time to view him so we missed out on the opportunity to see Ho Chi Minh preserved. Not too sure how I feel about that.
After lunch and a few Vietnamese coffees (picture half coffee, half sweetened condensed milk) we took a tour around the Old Quarter. There are an insane amount of scooters here, by the way.
Walking around the Old Quarter was quite a treat. We probably covered our tracks 5 times over, but it seemed like a brand new place when approached from a different angle. So much going on, so much food, I was in heaven!
The outside of the museum
Uncle Ho himself
And his spectacles
This is his mausoleum, his fully embalmed body resides here but spends one month out of the year in Moscow being refurbished......whatever that means. We weren't there at the right time to view him so we missed out on the opportunity to see Ho Chi Minh preserved. Not too sure how I feel about that.
After lunch and a few Vietnamese coffees (picture half coffee, half sweetened condensed milk) we took a tour around the Old Quarter. There are an insane amount of scooters here, by the way.
Walking around the Old Quarter was quite a treat. We probably covered our tracks 5 times over, but it seemed like a brand new place when approached from a different angle. So much going on, so much food, I was in heaven!
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