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Fruit ladies of Hanoi, Vietnam (2024) photog. Trung

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Hanoi. Credit to Nang Nguyen.

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Hanoi, Vietnam - 1954

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From left to right: portraits of Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Georgy Malenkov are posted on a wall. From a LIFE magazine article detailing the communist takeover of Vietnam.

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[thegreatdenden]

Day 3 and 4: Lost in the Streets of Vietnam, One Coffee Cup at a Time ☕🍜

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streets of hanoi

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[huyensgoingsomewhere]

điều làm mình yêu Hà Nội nhất chính là: "mùa nào thức nấy."

bạn ăn món ăn theo mùa; uống đồ uống theo mùa; mặc trang phục theo mùa; cắm những bông hoa, bày những loại trái theo mùa.

Winter in HaNoi.

Trịnh coffee.

photos by huyen&T

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Good Morning Hanoi!

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[dreamgarden]

Mùa đông Hà Nội những ngày này, đêm và sáng sớm mưa phùn ẩm ướt. Sáng nào mình cũng dậy sớm đi làm, trời còn chập choạng tối, đường sá vẫn chưa đông đúc. Cái ẩm ướt có thể làm nhiều người khó chịu, còn mình thấy thành phố thật đẹp khi tất cả được phủ bởi làn mưa mỏng manh dưới nền trời màu xám. Cảm thấy như bầu trời gần mặt đất hơn rất nhiều.

Ngoài trời lạnh, trong văn phòng phòng ấm áp hơn, hoa đào đã nở hết rồi.

Peach blossom in my office.

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Top 5 places to visit in Vietnam

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[southeastasiadiary]

Day 4: From Literature to Egg Coffee, Interrupted by a Cyclo Ride

I mentioned on Day 1 that one of the reasons I have long wanted to come to Vietnam is that Hanoi is home to the Temple of Literature, a name that I find absolutely fascinating. Well, today I got to visit the Temple of Literature. (Check off one major life goal accomplished.)

Constructed in the eleventh century, this complex contains a temple to Confucius, Vietnam’s earliest university, the site of national exams for scholars in feudal times, and basically everything that you can imagine in terms of glorifying higher learning. As far as I’m concerned, if there's a heaven, it must look something like this.

The centrality of education to Vietnamese culture is apparent from the fact that the site is featured on the back of the 100,000 Vietnamese đồng banknote.

After spending much of the morning at the Temple of Literature, our next stop was far more sobering: the Hanoi Hilton, also known as Hoa Lo Prison (“Fiery Furnace Prison,” so-called because of the pottery kilns that were on the site before the prison was built). The French, who built the structure in 1896 when they were still trying to turn Vietnam into a French Colony, simply called it the Maison Centrale, an oddly quaint name that belied the horrors that occurred there.

The exhibits at the prison surely don’t pull any punches with regard to brutalities that occurred there or the impact of the American war of the 1960s and 1970s. The futility of that conflict seems inescapable. The stated goal of American involvement was to prevent communism from coming to Vietnam and then to all of Southeast Asia. Well, communism came anyway, but now Vietnam is one of America's closest allies, and even Ho Chi Minh’s complex has its own, very capitalist-oriented gift shop (as does the Hanoi Hilton, for that matter). So, what was all that suffering for, again?

After lunch, the tone grew lighter once more with an hourlong cyclo ride through the Old Town.

Seated basically on the front of a tricycle without seatbelt or helmet can be an interesting experience as cars and hundreds of motorbikes all seem to be coming toward you at once. (If the video below doesn’t play automatically, be sure to click on it to make it start. You need to see it as a video to get the full effect.)

Many streets of Old Town are devoted to individual trades, like the bamboo, market, the fish market,

the flower market, and so on.

The ride ended at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, built by the French (when, apparently, they weren’t building prisons) from 1882 to 1886. Most Vietnamese just call it “the big church,” and it’s easy to see why.

We then walked partly around Hoan Kiem Lake (only partly around because some heavy rain showers came through late this afternoon). The name of the lake means the “Lake of the Returned Sword," because of a legend that a magical sword once used by the most revered heroes to defeat the Chinese Ming Dynasty had to be returned to the Golden Turtle God of the lake. What is it about kings and the magical swords they so often receive from figures living in lakes?

The day ended with a stop at Cafe Dihn, a tiny (and very crowded) coffee shop on the second floor of a building adjacent to the lake.

There Tony introduced me to egg coffee, which sounds unappetizing but is actually amazing. First developed at the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi, the inventor’s daughter then founded the Cafe Dihn, which has been serving it ever since. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like cappuccino but even thicker and creamier. Its taste is sweet and chocolatey, more like a dessert than just a cup of coffee. Certainly a wonderful way to end a marvelous day.

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Hanoi, Vietnam. Credit to Đức Nguyễn.

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[thegreatdenden]

Days 5, 6, and 7: An epic whirlwind of adventure. Left me speechless and my heart brimming with gratitude! Until we meet again, my dear Vietnam. 🌟🇻🇳

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December 2022

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