Post lunch the tour continued with a cyclo ride around Hanoi and the 2nd photo is of the poor, poor guy that had to cycle Andrew round for an hour, although he did look very dapper in Andrew's hat!
Next we were off to The Temple of Literature, which was built in 1100 a.d. as a university and now honours the scholars who taught the Kings and family at the time. We also enjoyed a live performance of traditional Vietnamese music whilst there.
We then went to West Lake and saw The Tran Quoc Pagoda, which is what the following photos are of. Can't acually remember if it is for worshipping any particular god, but it looked very nice all the same.
Then we went to Ngoc Son Temple on Hoan Kiem Lake, which honours a turtle.... yes a turtle! The legend has it that a very good Vietnamese general returned the sword he had won all these great battles with, to the goddess of the lake, who appeared as a turtle to reclaim it from his hand. Stanger still; they have a giant stuffed turtle on display in the temple, which was recovered from the lake in the 60's.
Right, that's it, lesson over.
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