Ho Chi Minh Museum Hanoi

Well more like good evening Vietnam!!.....loads of hanging about in Vientiane airport, first they pushed the flight back, then they brought it forward!! Apparently Lao Airlines are notorious for this!!
2 hours later then normal, I arrived in Hanoi, but then had to wait in different queues to get my visa, then had to go through immigration, then …

Y partimos a Vietnam!...claro que la salida de China tuvo más de algún tropiezo....salimos de Guilin muy temprano, tipo 7am, hacia la estación de trenes. El hostel estaba cerrado y el nochero nos debió abrir la puerta...afortunadamente nuestros amigos taxistas no nos pusieron inconvenientes a la hora de hacerlos parar y llegamos al tren a la hora. …

After a nice sleep in, I realised that I had left all of my toiletries in Singapore – damn, not a good start to the day.

We spend quite a bit of time getting organised for the next few days when we hope to head out to Ha Long Bay then further south into central Vietnam. By the time we leave the hostel it is already early afternoon.< …

26. janúar til 3. febrúar
Síðustu dagana í Nanning eyddum við á öðru hosteli en við byrjuðum að vera á, hostelið sem við fórum á, Nanning City hostel, var mun betra en það sem við höfðum verið á fyrst í Nanning. Þarna vorum við komin með einka baðherbergi, sjónvarp og við vitum ekki hvað. Hittum Markús frænda á nýja hostelinu. Gátum ekki fengi …

I've been here in Hanoi for what feels like ages, but it's only been a couple of days. IT IS BOILING HERE! It's the hottest country I've been to so far, between 35 and 40 every day.Thank god the dorm in the hostel has air con. The routine tends to be; get out of bed at 8ish, free breakfast of bread roll and coffee, go explore, come back at 12, nap …

This blog entry basically runs right into the last one. We last left off at the train station in Hanoi station, tired and weary from battling with the less than pleasant Vietnamese family. "Where do you go?" and "Taxi!" were the first things we heard as we left the safety zone of the arrival area. We have heard this many, many times by now and we …

Today, we spent the day touring some sights in the city of Hanoi. We left our hotel at 8:00am and started our day at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Museum. Once we got to the Mausoleum, the regulations were very strict, no hats, no talking, no walking too fast or too slow, there were guards armed with bayonet guns all around the Mausoleum and the …

We seem to go about our commuting in a hard and tiring fashion! What looks to be only a 3hr flight direct, this 'good air-fare deal' turned out to be 20 hours of hot, sticky, uncomfortable exhaustion! As if the transition back to Kalibo airport seemed to be the hardest part, we had a 3 hour stop-off in Manilla, a flight to Ho Chi Minh City arriving …

Today we woke up at around 7 AM. We got ready then left with our guide to go on a city tour for the day in Hanoi. Our first stop was at the Ho Chih Minh Mausoleum. Ho Chih Minh is the man that liberated Vietnam from the French in the war. He is highly respected in Vietnam, and is an amazing inspirational man. At the Mausoleum, we learned about him …

30.07.2009

12:53 (GMT+6)

DAY 30: UK to Australia without flying

Train SE5: Hanoi to Nha Trang, Vietnam

Ok so it has been four days since I last wrote and on a journey like this four days is a long time. First of all my train from Nanning to Hanoi went well as per usual. Firstly I had a cabin to myself which was a …

... 26th July - Have breakfast before catching the 8am bus to Hanoi via Hue. Arrive in Hue at 1pm and take in the Ho Chi Minh museum before visiting a Contemporary Arts museum, which is closed! Back on the bus at 6pm for our overnight journey to Hanoi. ...

... to confirm this which he did. God i love the English sense of humour! 3, Statue of Ho Chi Ming - see attached photo 4, Ho Chi Minh Museum - again, a comical visit for Sarah, James, Nic and I. En-route we crossed a bridge over a pond. It began ...

... city. In this heat though it probably would have been a better idea to take one rather than struggle on foot over to the Ho Chi Minh Museum which by the time I got there I was just interested in finding some cool shade as I was still adjusting to this ...

... Diem won 98.2 percent of the vote. This led to a downward spiral to war with the U.S. and South Vietnam. The Ho Chi Minh Museum, amidst modern new exhibits and halogen mood lighting, was full of poems, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, and ...

... to say on the direction of their respective countries. Messed up So with our trip to Madame Tussaud's over we hopped over to the Ho Chi Minh museum. I'm not quite how to explain this one. If I wasn't aware it was a museum dedicated to Ho Chi Minh I ...

... in the thick of it. One day we hired  bicycles and cycled through the mayhem to the Ethnological museum and over to the Ho Chi Minh museum. It was a real thrill to ride in this traffic. You have to ride really aggressively and just bull your way in ...

... and taking in the view. It was a short but nice trip! The next few days were spent siteseeing around the city: Ho Chi Minh museum, Textile Museum, and the famous must-see Water Puppet Show!  Parry and I decided to devote our last full day in ...

... to the Army Museum, which gives the Vietnamese version of history of the country since the 1930s; the very modern no-expense-spared Ho Chi Minh Museum, which tells the story of the great man's life; Ho Chi Minh's bamboo house on stilts, which he built in ...

... modest, most probably because they didn't want them to be targeted by US fighters. On the other side of the Mausoleum was the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the One Pillar Pagoda. The museum was "surreal" as LP has put it. This was the most bizarre museum I ...

... of water-puppetry in a theatre by the lakeside in Hanoi. day3 Hanoi. Jumped on and off motorcycles, visiting museums, and temples. Ho Chi Minh museum and mausoleum very interesting. You can see the man's embalmed body for free before 11 am, but there ...