First day in Vietnam
July 22nd 2007 We spent our first day here touring the usual Hanoi sites. The most interesting was probably Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, where the revolutionary leader has been preserved since is death in 1969. (sorry, no pictures allowed) The irony is that he specifcally said that he wanted his resting place to be modest and without fuss. I now has a huge building and courtyards, with a changing of the guard cerem
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