Ho Chi Minh – Travels in Vietnam

81. A Spirited Stroll in Central Hanoi

Vietnam’s capital city serves up history and religion on a walk past West Lake to the Ba Dinh district.

“The fog comes on little cat feet,” American poet Carl Sandburg once famously wrote. Covid-19, it seems, has a similar agenda.

Hô Chí Minh may be a villain in the Western world, but in Vietnam, he’s the greatest patriot in the nation’s history.