October 2009

I wrote an entry on my foodie blog before about eating in Hanoi. I would love to eat authentic Vietnamese food again. After our stint in the Museum of Ethnology, we went to the Temple of Literature. I took several pictures inside but most of them were lost. This temple of Confucius was the first national university of Vietnam.

I hope one day to visit the several courtyards of the temple again, take pictures and make sure to store them in a safer place.

It was late in the afternoon when we walked to a park where we found several folks exercising. The place had a relaxing atmosphere with trees and fountains. The picture below that I took before crossing the busy street near the park was also posted on my tumblr blog.

We rode a taxi to the city center where I took a snapshot of a pagoda. We were not able to watch the puppet show, but we capped off the night by eating in a Vietnamese restaurant overlooking a busy Hanoi street. I would definitely visit this city again someday.