SECOND DAY IN HANOI / DEUXIEME JOUR A HANOI

Unfortunately, the weather did not allow us to visit Halong Bay so we came back from the airport and continued visiting Hanoi. We saw the National Museum of History and in the afternoon, the  magnificent Temple of Literature. 

Le mauvais temps, helas, ne nous permit pas de visiter la Baie de Halong donc nous revinmes de l'aeroport et continuames a visiter Hanoi. Nous vimes le Musee National d'Histoire et l'apres-midi, nous allames voir le magnifique Temple de la litterature.

Celebre Hotel Metropole
Famous Hotel Metropole

We bought plastic raincoats
 very useful!!!
Nous achetames de tres utiles
impermeables!!!

Musee historique
History Museum

    

Then we went to see the Temple of Litterature, where all students passing exams go to pray even nowadays.

 

Puis nous allames voir le Temple de la Litterature ou tous les etudiants passant des examens vont prier, meme de nos jours.

Tres ancienne tablette 10e siecle
d'un etudiant ayant reussi
les examens imperiaux
pour devenir fonctionnaire.

          

   

 

Diplomes venant remercier les dieux
Graduated students thanking the gods

Then we saw from outside, Ho Chi Minh mausoleum and we visited his former house.

Ho chi Minh Mausoleum

 
 Mausolee de Ho Chi Minh

                 
Maison de Ho chi Minh / Ho Chi Minh Home

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House of the French governor in Hanoi which became later the Vietnam President House. Ho Chi Minh lived there for a while but later chose other smaller buidings in the park as his residence.

Maison du gouverneur francais a Hanoi qui devint ensuite le palais presidentiel vietnamien. Ho Chi Minh y vecut un temps avant de preferer divers batiment de taille plus reduite pour en faire ses maisons.

First small house of Ho Chi Minh
premiere maison de Ho chi Minh

                              

 

 

Derniere maison sur pilottis que Ho Chi Minh se fit construire dans le parc
Last house on stilts that Ho Chi Minh had built for him inside the huge park

shelter against bombing
abri anti bombardements

 

Ho Chi Minh adorait les pamplemousse et en fit planter dns le parc
Ho chi Minh who loved grapefruits had them planted in the park

Next to the Ho Chi Minh complex was the lovely One Pilar Pagoda originally built in 1049.

   

 

  

Then back to the hotel, dinner in a near by Vietnamese restaurant and an ice-cream in a trendy but very simple place where young people gathered to eat ice-cream while standing and chatting under a crude and week light.

Puis retour a l'hotel, diner dans un restaurant proche et glace dans un endroit a la mode mais tres basique ou les jeunes se reunissaient pour deguster des glaces en bavardant debout sous une lumiere blaffarde.