rjadelsonourlife: Vietnam , off we go

GOOD MORNING. VIETNAM as Robin Williams said in a movie
We stayed at the Atlanta airport at a hotel when you can park and leave your car. 4 1/2 hours drive. 15 hours from Atlanta to Korea. 2 hours at airport. 5 hours to Vietnam.
I watched three movies. The Martian, Room, Learning to Drive. All that I had not seen in the movies.
We are flying Air Korea. Super jet. We fly coach. 600 passengers. The food is good. Stewards are thin, pretty and as sweet as can be. They all wear the same bright red lipstick. They have white skirts and powder blue different tops. With a powder blue bow in the hair. The coach is about 1/2 Korean and the other from Vietnam. With a few of us, while people. Very polite, quiet group of people.

The country does not have heat in their home , business, museums, Resturant. We had heat in our hotel. But most of the day I was cold. I did not bring a heavy coat. So I am wearing many layers of clothes. Tea shirt, shirt, shirt, thin jacket and a rain coat. Five layers today. In two days we head south and it will be warm, and hot.

Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh.

Our guide. Duy (duyie). Or we can call him Sunny. Very elegant man.

President palace.

Mo Chi Minh house. He lived very plain. Like a normal man. Bed had no mattress. Slept on a mat.

Single stone pillar.

Flay of Vietnam

Bonsai tree

Confucius at the Temple of Literature. 1070 AD.

Hao Lo Prison. Or Hanoi prison when our American soldiers were held.

This is a map of the area. It is very large. We may saw a very small part of it.

Terrible place. I do not want to even explain how the people were treated here. Depressing for me.

John McKain was held here for I think six years. How he could have survived, I do not know.

The mode of transportation is motor scooter. Everywhere are masses of people carrying large boxes, trees, etc. in the back of their scooters.
We had a rainy day. They must wear a helmet. Most of the people obey.
The people wear a face mask. They do not want to get a tan. Pollution. And I feel the air was not good. I could feel a bit of asthma coming in my chest.

We went to a water puppet show. There is a pool and people behind a screen move the puppets with poles. A band and women singing. Show lasted about 45 minutes. Definitely a tourist money maker. We could have missed this.
Our dinner was quite good. Cauliflower and chicken soup