Hanoi, this feels familiar

Jan. 17, HUE

Yesterday I spent the day visiting Hanoi's main sights. Hopped on the back of a moto and criss-crossed this huge, chaotic, smoggy city.

First stop was the Museum of Ethnology. Covered a basic overview of Vietnam's different tribes and their customs. The Viets make up 86% of the population. The rest are smaller tribes of Khmer, Thai origin along the Mekong Delta and of Chinese up north.

Confucious says.. pic below is at the Temple of Literature, a little oasis in the heart of the city. It is where Confusious and other Vietnamese scholars, well, philosophized.

Next to the Temple of Literature was the Fine Arts museum. It's in an inconspicuous yellow building and I managed to walk in from an unguarded door. This painting caught my eye... it must've somehow escaped censorship.

Next hop was the Ho Chi Mihn complex. A tribute to the life and death of Vietnam's leader and a hero-worship place for drones of Vietnamese folk. This area of Hanoi felt eeringly familiar. The Albanian followers of this blog may have the same feelings of recognition.

Plaza in front of Ho Chi Mihn Musoleum, final resting place of Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body. (Sheshi Skernderbeut)

Main boulevard leading up to the complex. (Blvd. Deshmored e Kombit)

Ho Chi Mihn Museum. (Piramida Enverit)

Now off to get some much needed beauty sleep.

EK