Dec. 25, 2012 - Hanoi, Vietnam
Today I am on my own. Alene and Gavin have taken an early flight to Hoi An to they can see as much as they can during Gavin's 2 week visit. Liz is on her last day of the Halong bay tour due to possible food poisoning from food eaten on the first day. She had to take the tour a day later.
I ended up meeting up with our two new boat friends. They planned to walk around Hanoi to see things that I hadn't yet seen, it was perfect. I met them first for pizza in the old quarter then we headed off towards the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. This is were they keep the embalmed remains of Ho Chi Minh himself. Unfortunately, he goes for repairs in Russia annual this time of year. We only got to see the grounds and the outside of the Mausoleums.
We then walked another good bit to West Lake to see the pagoda out there. This was a free sight and was definitely worth seeing! It was a huge red tower stretching out into the sky.
This was followed by the Army Museum. This contained a lot of Vietnam's military history. It even had a collection of downed American aircraft and tanks that they had bombed, shot down, or overtaken during the Vietnam war. Interesting.
Liz arrived back at the hostel that night and we soon after hopped the night train to Sapa for two days.
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