Hanoi Vietnam
© From the photo album of Linda Young
Upon arrival in Hanoi, we inspected the Temple of Literature, the site of the oldest university in Vietnam where the Mandarins of Vietnam were educated and where 2313 doctors graduated between 1076 - 1779. We also visited the beautiful Hoan Kiem Lake (The Lake of the Restored sword ), the site where King Le Loi is said to have been handed a sword by a turtle which was later used to vanquish invaders before the turtle took the sword back and returned to the depths of the lake. We rode a cyclo (bicycle pedaled by someone else) through the Old Quarter where we saw even more amazing things piled on top of bicycles and women with baskets suspended from their shoulders full of wondrous things. There was also a delightful water puppet show that originated in Hanoi, or at least in the rice fields around Hanoi.
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