Turns out Hanoi's flooding has considerably subsided. We had to get off the train a stop early when arriving tho as there was still flooding on the tracks and get a rail replacement bus service. That was an experience with all the pushy Vietnamese trying to get their suitcases on the bus before you in the pouring rain!
Hanoi is Vietnam's capital city. Its divided into 3 main quarters:
1. the old quarter which looks exactly the same as Phnom Phen - Cambodia's capital - but without the stinking rubbish
2. French Quarter - looks very colonial and quite posh
3. Ba Dinh District - with all the state buildings and memorials in it.
The first afternoon we looked around the Ba Dinh District. The most interesting section of which was the musoleum Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body is housed in (closed in November for re-embalming!). Behind that was his two houses he used to live in. To look like he was one of the people, he lived in a stilt house (but inside a compound). Was very cute looking.
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