World tour of communism

Just in case we had forgotton who makes the rules in these parts, we were rudely awoken at 8am by a megaphone outside our window blaring out the latest goings on and internal affairs.... we were imagining all kinds of propaganda talk, and apparantly the government likes to keep it's people informed of the news at all ungodly hours...

And to continue our world tour of stiffs, we made the pilgrimage to Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body. After queuing for a very, very long time (about 1km), we were ushered around the body in the space of about 25 seconds, fighting back the giggles (how mature) as I'd been told off once for talking and then once again for having a jumper tied around my waist! The Vietnamese take the trip to see Uncle Ho very seriously, and bow their heads in reverence as they file past him. It was very similar to our experience with Lenin in Moscow, but the Russians have long since given up their religious worship of their once leader.

Still no pics I'm afraid - although I would have been on the receiving end of a nasty looking bayonet if I'd tried to take a pic in the mausoleum! Will sort out the backlog after our sojourn up to the highlands...