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Published: 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 ceremony, the whole works. The line to view his body streches for blocks most days, but moves along. We had to wait about half an hour.
After that, the day was filled with temples and pagodas galore. The shopping is also quite an experience as most stuff is as cheap as anywhere else we've been. We need to be disciplined though because our luggage was already overweight in Thailand.
Henry
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Nicole and Christopher Blake
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Received beautiful postcard
Thank you for the wonderful postcard and great blogs. We're enjoying reading about your adventures, especially our Mom!!! Lydia, we miss you and can't wait for you to get home!