What I know about Hanoi

I've been to Hanoi, but I have not much time for this place, this time, I came to Hanoi in two days, I had an interesting trip, but by walking so I felt tired.
I arrived in Hanoi at 5pm, if you've ever been or heard of motorcycle taxi at the bus station in Hanoi, you can imagine how I could escape the crowd.
Here, I started looking for a place to rest. Only $12, I had a normal room at a hotel with air-conditioning, hot water and wifi.

I came here with a friend, we started looking for something for dinner. Close to where I stayed, there were many restaurants, I wondered, then I chose a suitable dish for me: it's bun cha (Vermicelli and grilled chopped meat). With $1,5/bowl, my stomach was filled and we began planning to explore Hanoi. Unfortunately, after dinner, I saw the weather was not favorable. It started raining, so we had to went up the room and did not forget to buy some snacks, wifi network here is very fast, I found a few places in Hanoi and went to bed.

The next morning, the weather was good, I prepared some belongings, got on a bus and came to Guom Lake. Fortunately, I have gps device so I could determine the location that I wanted to go.

Walking

He seems to be sad

In Guom lake, we found a breakfast restaurant, I pulled my friend into a noodle beef restaurant, Pho here was very good, only $2,5/bowl, I was able to enjoy a bowl of pho. After breakfast, we walked around the lake, Ly Thai To statue and took some shots as a souvenir, I realized that this place has a lot of foreigners are around the lake. What I see is impressive, it is wonderful.

Selling souvenirs shop at Hoan Kiem Lake

Ly Thai To statue - slightly underexposed image

Walked for a while, we came to Trang Tien ice cream shop $0.5/ice cream. We were both ate and went to the bus station and went to Ba Dinh Square where President Ho Chi Minh mausoleum of Vietnam located.

Waiting for a bus near Guom lake

I had met a street vendor and had bought some bread before went in Mausoleum.

Buy some cakes of peddlers

Take a long time for us to be able to walk to the gate, we had to sent the map and went through the security check area.

Luggage card before entering the Mausoleum

Go through gate security check before entering the mausoleum

 They inspected strictly, I went through a long path to be inside, so unfortunately prohibits shooting here so I could not take a picture of that. A long line connected to each other to see Uncle Ho's body, people did not say any sentence, a surprisingly quiet and I also felt surprised corpse of Uncle Ho. I'd take a picture but could not.

Photo taken outside the mausoleum

Went out, we kept walking through the houses on stilt, here is clean, according to what I know, this was where Uncle Ho lived, next, the fish pond, it known as Uncle Ho fish pond.

House on stilts - where Uncle Ho lived

Fish pond with interesting fish

The fish here are big, and they are not particularly afraid of people, you might even be able to touch them, which made me very surprised

Ho Chi Minh museum

Take a photo behind the mausoleum

Selling souvenirs area inside

Came to a shop, I bought a shirt with picture of Uncle Ho mausoleum. Noon came and I felt quite tired, I visited the museum, but unfortunately they had closed , I took some photos and went out, found a restaurant, I finished my journey. If get a chance, I will come back to Hanoi to explore many new things.