Sorry fam that it is taking me a little more time to add new posts to my blog. Visited and had a guided tour of the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology. It was really nice. Our tour guide was actually a former student of our professor. He was working on the famed Highway 9, East-West Economic corridor exhibit. Really nice museum. A lot of this museum had information on the war and the UXO (unexploded ordinance) that was dropped during the American Conflict in Vietnam. Which is nice to see so that we can see some of the actual UXO that was dropped, actually helps one to imagine the magnitude of the devastation and despair within the region we are going to assist. All I can say is that it is pretty sad..
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Chua Quan Truoc (Quan Truoc Temple) “alleged” oldest Theravada Buddhist Temple in Viet
nam. Dep qua. While here there was a funeral going on, tree of enlightenment for Buddha. However, one of the coolest things we saw was the "John McCain Marker." Which means the place (lake) where he crashed and then subsequently rescued by the local people. Just think what would of happened if they would have let him drowned...
Famed Hanoi Vietnamese Water Puppet Theater. Traditional French style marionettes performing in water.
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Took a walk around Hoan Kiem Lake. Very interesting to see public parks used for mass tai chi exercises. Nice to see Viet people very active, especially the women… Even the men were lifting weights like it was Venice beach.
I thought about meditating…. And even running, but the humidity and heat is brutal… reminds me so much of Cuba.
Meet with Jodi Charles (UW alumn who works with VN CDC/Embassy) at Paris Deli.
Lunch at the famed Highway 4 restaurant, where we ate steamboat soup with tiger prawns, pigeon, crocodile and skewered wild horse, cua rang me (soft shelled crabs with tamarind), crickets with tamarind sauce, and many more...
Walking tour of the French Colonial Quarters in Hanoi.
History Museum, Vietnamese Communist Party Museum.
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