I’ve been gone for a week now. It has gone by fairly quickly. About to go to bed for the 6th night, only 4 more after this one. But hopefully all of the best things are to come. Today was spent in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. We started my going to the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum complex. His body is there for viewing, except not on Mondays. So we didn’t actually get to see him. But we did see the presidential building and a couple of the houses he lived in. He highly respected here and from what they see does seem to have been a good guy. It wasn’t until after he died that they turned to communism, After that we went to what was called a literary museum. What is was an old Consufsus school, the first college in Vietnam. After another meal that was too long we went to the prison where John McCain was held/tortured for a few years, aka The Hanoi Hilton. Then it was to a water puppet show. Then it was an hour cyclo tour. That is where I sit in the carriage and some guy half my size pedals me around the old quarters. This was cool because it put us out in the street right in the middle of the crazy traffic. It rained in the morning and during the bike ride so for the most part that kept things cooler, which made the day much easier.
Tomorrow we will start with a 3 hour drive from Hanoi to Halong Bay, where we are going on a 24 hour cruise on an old junk boat. Not really old and probably not really a junk, just something made to look like one. Actually it is supposed to be fairly luxorious. Halong Bay is supposed to be a beautiful place. We’ll cruise around, stopping at a few caves, do some swimming and water activities, stay over night on ship. Then when that 24 hour voyage is over we drive back to Hanoi and fly to Siem Reap in Cambodia to spend the last two days touring Angkor Wat. Hopefully saving the best for last. I have taken about 150 pictures so far. The interest seems fast except when I try to post pictures. So I will probably wait until I’m home to post more. I don’t expect to have internet on the boat tomorrow. So it will probably be at least two days before the next post.
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