Some Food Photos from Vietnam

Hanoi: The One-Pillar Pagoda, the Thang Long Citadel, and the Temple of Literature

Today is our last day in Vietnam. Trying to maximize the value of time we started the day with the Ho Chi Minh complex, which hosts Ho Chi Minh himself in a mausoleum. The queue was too long, we didn't have a personal appointment with him, and I realized how much I loathe personality cults so we decided to skip him. His body is flown to Moscow every year for conservation. They have vast experience with this anyways. While Ho Chi Minh is continuing to fly to Moscow even long after his death we took a closer look at the One Pillar Pagoda which is located in the same park.

Sometimes looks more like a grocery store:

We've found the devil in the details. It's blue:

After a short walk we reached the Thang Long Citadel. The citadel was the government building complex from the 11th until the 19th century. From 1954 to 1975 the North Vietnamese military headquarters resided here.

After an extremely slowly served lunch we visited the Temple of Literature. This is a temple of Confucius built in the 11th century by the Ly dynasty.

Da Lat and the Crazy House

We went for a European breakfast today and ended up bumping into the same lady who was yesterday a guest at the Japanese restaurant we were in. She is running this cafe and serves excellent breakfast.
We were walking around the city and paid a visit to the Crazy House. Heavily influenced by Gaudi, the Crazy House is really crazy.
Here is a taste of it:

Some shots from all around the town:

Look, they rebuilt the Eiffel Tower!:

Electric chaos:

From Buon Me Thuot to Da Lat

We are learning from our own experience. This time we didn't let the hotel book a bus for us, we rather booked it on our own. We carefully picked a company running on the Da Lat line based on seat reservation option and based on images of the bus on Google. It worked! We were picked up at our hotel and were transferred to the bus stop. After a couple of minutes the bus showed up and we left just on time. The bus had really comfortable seats, which were assigned to the passengers. No one sat on the floor. Most people took off their shoes while in the bus and put it in the plastic bag which was given to everybody.

Dalat is the coldest city we have visited so far. I even had to wear my jacket, for the first time since in Vietnam. After checking in to the hotel we went for lunch and for a visit in the Chua Linh Son temple.

Dray Sap and Dray Nur Waterfalls

Today we took a day trip from Buon Me Thuot with a private driver. For the sake of change we had a big air-conditioned SUV for the whole day. We visited two waterfalls and an elephant conservation center's tourisic part.

Lunch:

Chicken-Bus to Buon Me Thuot

Riddle:
- How do you make a bus full with people?
- Let seven people get off.

Then you get this: