27th October 2014
Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum |
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 Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum |
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 Guards in front of Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum |
 Workers assembling scaffolding |
 Newly-opened parliament house |
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 Back of Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum |
 Guard and Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum |
Presidential Palace area |
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 Map of Ho Chi Minh’s “vestige” in the Presidential Palace area |
 The Presidential Palace |
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 Tree bases painted to protect against insects and to increase visibility during war blackout |
 Ho Chi Minh’s bedroom in house no. 54 |
 Bust of Lenin in workroom in Ho Chi Minh’s house no. 54 |
 Workroom in Ho Chi Minh’s house no. 54 |
 Sweeper |
 “Uncle Ho’s fishpond” and house no. 54 |
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 Stilt house and “Uncle Ho’s fishpond” |
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 Christine and the stilt house |
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 Meeting room under the stilt house |
 Buddha (or cypress) tree roots |
 Gardener |
 Guard at the stilt house |
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 “Uncle Ho’s fishpond” |
 Old women with then-fashionable black teeth |
 Locals and visitors; LtoR: Julie, Polly, Sally, Hoi, Pauline, Christine, Fiona, Dan and Greta |
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 Guards |
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 One-Pillar Pagoda |
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