We decided to spend a day doing a city tour. Our bus driver was craaaazy. Not only was he obsessive about honking that horn, but he would go through those intersections as if he were the only car in the road instead of one of hundreds trying to make their way in every direction. There were many times when all the passengers gasped in unison, our lives flashing before our eyes as we went hurtling through an intersection with a wall of motorbikes screeching to a halt as our driver completely disregarded traffic going in the cross street. I think even for Hanoi standards, our driver was one of the more dangerous, erratic ones, which is just who you would want driving a bunch of tourists.
First stop was Tran Quoc Pagoda that was built in the sixth century.
Next, we visited Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. No pictures were allowed inside. Ho Chi Minh was nicely preserved inside.
We visited the museum of ethnology, which features various ethnic minorities in Vietnam. There was also a water puppet show.
Lastly, we visited the Temple of Literature, which is the first national university of Vietnam. It was built in 1076.
After the tour we celebrated surviving another day of Hanoi traffic with ice cream. Drew got coconut, and I got taro.
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