Hi everyone, I’m back in Hanoi with the crazy traffic, the unfriendly Vietnamese people and the buzzing feeling. And I’m not alone for the moment, Bertrand (who I met in Malaysia last month), joined me for 5 weeks to visit Vietnam and that’s really nice to travel with someone. One of the things to see in Hanoi is the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh. Small history lesson (from Wikipedia): Hồ Chí Minh (1890 – 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc or Uncle Ho was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1955–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)
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