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This was strange. First of all, I felt like I was doing something wrong by visiting this "monument". It was probably because I served in the Army under guys who had fought in Vietnam. Second...it was just wierd. Lines of foreign tourists stand silently in a cold (40 degrees) room and look at a body. The body does not appear real. Locals say that it is not real, but rather wax. It looks like wax. Around the body there are uniformed soldiers whose only job is to shush onlooking tourists. You get your brief look and then file out. The rediculous thing is: Ho Chi Mihn did not want to be on display like Lenin, he wanted to be buried.
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Directions: Ba Dinh District
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This is approx 200 meters from the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum. It was originally build in 1049 by King Ly Thai Tong. The King had a dream of the Godess of Merc leading him to Lotus flower. It is said that the Pagoda was buit in the shape of a lotus blossuming onto its stem. If you and your wife pray to the One Pillar Pagoda, you will be blessed with a male child just as the King was.
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Recently this site was restored. The elders in the city advised that it was used as a public toilet for quite some time. They laugh at the tourists that wlk in and out and take pictures. The elders remind me of the old Kosovars that have no appreciation for the historical landmarks that shaped there nation into what it is. The Universtiy was used to educate Mandarins, or the Kings advisers and governors. These were the Vietnamese people that had the power of knowlege and dicated the actions of the Kings.
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