Day 7 HaNoi take 2

When Kim and I were here last, before we went off to Halong Bay, it was during the TET holiday. Now that is over and the city is transformed. All the closed businesses are now open, and the busy traffic we had seen is a weak pale pittance compared to the life or death game of frogger that you play with every street crossing. We are calling it the Hanoi Shuffle. ..it's a upright purposeful walk with as much ego as you can muster and you step off the curb and just walk steadily despite the insanity...only speeding up or slowing if its a cab coming at you...because,well,you know. ..cabbies the world over...

A busy day of tourist sites:
Left to right
1.A small piece of the view from the breakfast room on the 7th floor of the Aranya hotel where we are staying.
2.Ho Chi Minh Museum dedicated to the father of the communist regime here in Vietnam
3.His larger than life statue in the center if the museum
4.Temple on the grounds of the Museum/Masouleum in front of the...
5.One Pillar Pagoda (replica of the most ancient Buddhist pagoda)
6. Ho Chi Minh's Masoleum
7.Part of the oldest and first ever Vietnamese University founded by Confucious and his diciples. On left and right were many large tombstone like slabs with the oldest records and writings.
8.Inside with the statues of Confucious (yes Kim is fully a head taller than everyone....pretty normal here)
9. Stopped for Bun Cha lunch...yum!
10. Herbs and lettuce, bun noodles, dipping sauce with bbq bacon and sausage and spring rolls on the side!

And that's only half the day...no wonder I have a blister on my toe!