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This is part of the HCM 'complex' that includes the mausoleum and his 'modest house on stilts.' Ok. After the hushed and reverential tone of the mausoleum, this place comes as sort of a shock. There are tons of people everywhere, people aggressively trying to act as your 'guide,' (well, they do have offical badges, and say they'll take donations at the end.....) and busloads of school kids. It's interesting, and, as you might imagine, a bit, well, what should we say, um, 'one sided,' in its presentation of the man and his work. You can't help but be a little impressed though. There are great displays and tons and tons of text. Unfortunately, I didn't really have the patience to read though much (if any) of the explanations, but figured it was just as well. While it's not a 'must see,' you may as well stop by since you're in the neighborhood. Leave a Comment Directions: Ba Dinh District
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| | | | Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum: Mausoleum, Museum, and Grounds | Tip Rating: | | | | |
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is adjacent to a large park that includes the HCM Museum, the Presidential Palace, the house in which Ba (Uncle) Ho lived the final 15 years of his life, and the famous One-Storey Pagoda. Though I declined to visit the Lenin Mausoleum on my visits to Moscow, I gladly waited and trod in the line to see the mummified remains of little man who fought the French, the Japanese, the Chinese, and the Americans for his country's independence. Despite land reform excesses early in his rule of "North" Vietnam, Ho was a humanitarian compared with such Communist monsters as Pol Pot, Mao Tse-tung, Stalin, and -- yes -- Lenin. He lived simply, unlike Mao and Stalin, and -- also unlike them -- conducted no massive purges. (Lenin ordered the Tsar and his family murdered; Ho allowed Emperor Bao Dai to leave Vietnam for a sybaritic exile in the south of France.) A short distance behind the mausoleum is the impressive HCM Museum, with interesting displays from Ba Ho's life as well as his and his countrymen's struggle for independence. One of those displays is a small memorial pagoda (pictured below). The clock in the left foreground is stopped at the hour and minute of Ho's death in September 1969, nearly six years before his dream of an independent and united Vietnam was finally achieved. (Lonely Planet claims photographs are not permitted in the museum. That is not true.) Leave a Comment Directions: Ba Dinh District
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| | | | Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum: Uncle Ho's final resting place | Tip Rating: | | | | |
I've already written about this a bit on my intro page. It is an interesting place to go and its a real bit of history. Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890 in the village of Kimlien, Annam in Central Vietnam. Like his father, he protested against French colonial rule and would eventually become the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle for independence. He helped to found the Communist-dominated independence movement, known as the Vietminh, when Japan occupied Vietnam in 1941. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh, as he was now known, became president. War with France followed for eight years until the French surrendered in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. With just the north under the communist state, conflict returned in the 1960s as the DRV fought against the US-supported regime in Saigon. Ho Chi Minh didn't see the end of the war as he died of heart failure in 1969. He apparantly wanted to be cremated but because he was so revered he got embalmed instead. Some tips for visiting, go early. It opens at 8am and can get very crowded. Be prepared to get herded like cattle and if you are a westerner you will get searched many times. You will have to leave you bags and cameras before you go and will have to collect them at a different palce on exit. You will be given a chit- don't lose it! Leave a Comment Directions: 5 Pho Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
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