moments in SE Asia
Remains of the Day.
The three of us got up early in the morning and took a taxi into town to view Ho Chi Minh' s body (so strange). They wouldn't let us in at first so we walked around a bit and tried going in by another way. After a few minutes of ambling aimlessly about, we found ourselves walking towards the mausoleum with a large group of suits (we didn't know if they were employees or Party members). As we walked in that private procession, with little confidence that we would actually make it to the deceased dictator's body and every confidence that we would soon be found out and rudely rushed either to the nearest exit or the nearest Vietnam prison, :) the suits looked quizzically at us and we looked innocently (and a bit sheepishly) back at the suits, and amazingly, we moved on. With the rising sun in our faces and curious thoughts in our mind, fully dressed military men with impenetrable stares and impeccably white uniforms guarding the entrance and exits, and the "bearer of light" awaiting us all, we found our way in and up three flights of stairs to where Ho Chi Minh's body lay...
The three of us got up early in the morning and took a taxi into town to view Ho Chi Minh' s body (so strange). They wouldn't let us in at first so we walked around a bit and tried going in by another way. After a few minutes of ambling aimlessly about, we found ourselves walking towards the mausoleum with a large group of suits (we didn't know if they were employees or Party members). As we walked in that private procession, with little confidence that we would actually make it to the deceased dictator's body and every confidence that we would soon be found out and rudely rushed either to the nearest exit or the nearest Vietnam prison, :) the suits looked quizzically at us and we looked innocently (and a bit sheepishly) back at the suits, and amazingly, we moved on. With the rising sun in our faces and curious thoughts in our mind, fully dressed military men with impenetrable stares and impeccably white uniforms guarding the entrance and exits, and the "bearer of light" awaiting us all, we found our way in and up three flights of stairs to where Ho Chi Minh's body lay...
posted by Prague at 11:02 PM
3 Comments:
that's amazing.
so you saw it? still very preserved? WHY?
anyways, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR, GONG XI FA CAI!!
hey, you got your profile to appear on your page...way togo!.... so I want to hearthe restof the story, what's the body like? how in the world did you get in?!gudetimes... see you guys soon..
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