October 11 Friday Hanoi
Lovely hotel breakfast with beautifully displayed fruit including dragon fruit slices, pho, and very fine coffee, grown here in Vietnam made in a French press. Soon afterwards, our college student guide arrived, we piled into a cab, off to the Ho Chi Minh museum,
then to the thousand year old literature museum, five ancient courtyards, statue of Confucius (not the dog, the real deal),
burning incense, newly graduated university students in traditional dress milling about, with bouquets of fresh flowers, taking pictures of each other and celebrating. Another cab back to the clean feel of the air condition and a bit of rest until we met with a friend of Netsy's colleague who has been living and working here for four years. He let us know some of the sad economic, political, social situation here and then grabbed our map and rattled off some must see attractions.
then to the thousand year old literature museum, five ancient courtyards, statue of Confucius (not the dog, the real deal),
burning incense, newly graduated university students in traditional dress milling about, with bouquets of fresh flowers, taking pictures of each other and celebrating. Another cab back to the clean feel of the air condition and a bit of rest until we met with a friend of Netsy's colleague who has been living and working here for four years. He let us know some of the sad economic, political, social situation here and then grabbed our map and rattled off some must see attractions.
A long walk to the night market brought us to an impossibly congested endless street of tchotchkes looking a little like a Broadway street fair. Dinner on a second floor outdoor patio and a long, hot, tired walk got us back to the hotel. Gnite.
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