"From Hanoi to Chiang Mai" Windwalk's photos about Chiang Mai, Thailand

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Chiang Mai, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Windwalk titled "From Hanoi to Chiang Mai" Windwalk's travel blog entry: "First of all we managed to be one day ahead of a typhoon. Now we have managed to beat the Bangkok airport shutdown by a few hours! But before we write about that, a little more about what we've been up to in Hanoi. We ended up really enjoying our time in Hanoi. Once we got used to the complete craziness, it sort of grew on us (especially once Carol found an excellent coffee shop, after 2 weeks of instant coffee!!). We spent a day going to some really interesting museums. First we went to the Ho Chi Minh museum, or at least we thought that's what we were going to do, but didn't realize that it was part and parcel of the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, where Uncle Ho is perfectly embalmed. There were masses of people -- (think the opening parade of the Beijing Olympics) in long lines and we all filed silently past the body. Then we went to the museum, which was fabulous, really interesting and innovative. Instead of just telling the story of his life and of Vietnam, it was very artistic with a lot of symbolic representations of different aspects of society and culture. In the afternoon we went to the Museum of Ethnology, which represents all the different peoples of Vietnam. Inside the building are exhibits and outside in the grounds are reconstructed houses, tombs and longhouses, which were just fascinating. That ...



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