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The traffic in Hanoi is pretty intense.
Cars and motorbikes share the road. It is a constant rush of traffic.
Motorbikes crowd to the front at stoplights and take off ahead of the cars.
It seems as if the whole country gets around on motorbikes.
Bikes park everywhere.
A few people still ride bicycles but they are in the minority.
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is everything that a connoisseur of Communist-style places of dead leader worship could ask for.
Huge promenade where people undoubtedly march past on certain holidays.
Ho Chi Minh usually rests inside there. When we visited, his body was in Russia for conservation.
Supposedly this house was used as a meditation place.
It sits atop one leg.
Along Truc Bach Lake we found a flock of forlorn swan boats with creepy eyes and eyelashes.
So many swan boats!
Some strange floating restaurants. They were all closed due to winter.
A few swan boats out on a dock for repair.