Friday, September 17
We have now arrived in Hanoi at. 5.00 in the morning. From the start we got a room that Mona and Niels got. Fairly soon, there was a room more to Folmer and Annelise. We made a little walk around the Hoa Kiem Lake. After breakfast there were 2 more spaces available. Now we had all the rooms. Kien Anh arrived at. 8.00. We had been briefed that on 17 / 9 was a great festval. From 17 / 9 for it all culminated on 10/10. It is 1000 th anniversary of the capital Hanoi. 1000 years ago moved the capital from Hoa Lue to Hanoi. Hanoi was named Thang Long. Kien Anh sped through town. It was hard to follow, but he stopped at every turn. The village where she has company was represented with a workshop. There were so many people in great festive costumes. Many workshops and big parade. There was indeed much to photograph. Although we took many pictures were taken several pictures of us. You would think we were the center. TV was also there. Annelise was interviewed for TV. I also reached to make a feature. We also met Kien ANH sister who took many pictures. An incredibly nice morning. We invited the 2 sisters for dinner on evening. At "Little Hanoi" after lunch came Thuy with my clothes. She would at her sister's behalf to invite us to dinner the evening, but we had already invited the 2 sisters for dinner. I told Thuy. The problem was that Sun had started to cook. Now I had to call Kien Anh whether we could move the dinner to Saturday. We had 2 taxi home. A home with 4 floors, elegant and beautiful. Besides us there were 7 Danish Thuy, her father and mother, daughter and Thuys party nivĝ. Sun has a girl from the university to help with food and cleaning. A festive evening, which was the first day in Hanoi.
Dinner at Sun
Thuy and Link
Trang, mother and Kien Anh
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Saturday, September 18
We started from the hotel at. 8.00. We should have seen Ho Chi Minh mausuleet. But Ho Chi Minh was in China to be inspected. So we had to settle for seeing mausulĉet outside. We saw only the one-legged pagoda. The one-legged pagoda was built 1049 by Emperor Ly Thai Tong. Pagoda resembles a lotus flower and a thank you for he had one son.
legged pagoda
legged pagoda
We went to Ho Chi Minh museum, which is an amazing museum. It is very modern in design. Next stop was the old university also called "Litteraturmusĉet". You meet many people here. On the way home from Litteraturmusset we bought tickets for Water Theatre and advance began at 16th and lasted an hour. Vietnam's famous water puppetry originated hundreds of years ago in a pond in a village. The scene of Hanoi's famous Water Puppet Theatre still water surface and dolls placed on an ingenious system of bamboo poles of puppeteers who stand in water for life. How is a well kept secret. There was no more time. We should have seen the Army Museum. Tonight we went to Sapa. Since we do not stay overnight, we must out of the rooms at. 12.00. We ate lunch at Little Hanoi. Afterwards we walked around the streets. I went to the hairdresser and other went shopping. We also ate dinner at Little Hanoi. Cl. 20.40 Khoa came with a car to drive us to the station. We had plenty of time it normally takes 20 minutes, but traffic was so heavy that it took more than an hour. It was good that we was in good time. We had 2 Kuper: Poul Erik, Annelise, Niels and Mona. The next Khoa, Folmer, Annelise and me. We had a good trip to Lao Cai. The start was slightly delayed because of traffic, we arrived 10 minutes before the train left. We had a good night in the train and was in Lao Cai at. 6.15.
Ho Chi Minh mausuleum
Ho Chi Minh Museum
More about Ho Chi Minh
tables of stone by literature museum
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Literature Museum
Water Theatre
Little Hanoi