Visiting the HCM Mausoleum (Stuart as guest blogger)

Yesterday morning we attempted to see the almighty "Ho Chi Minh".

First we had to drop off all bags, water, cameras, and mobile phones at the entrance then wait in line for 10 minutes and pass through the security scanner and after being asked 5 times if we have a camera (which we didn't because we had sand stuck in it)we walked into an area that looked like a lobby. We had no reason to stay there so we walked into another line and slowly creeped our way slowly closer to the building. 25 minutes later we finnaly got to the entrance. Before we went in we saw the white guards with their rifles marching in a way where when they go to step they point their toes as far as they can. After what looked like a dance routine we went in.

My first thought was "brrr it's cold". we had to stay very quiet and climbed the stairs to "the room". There lying in the bed in the center of the room was the body of Ho Chi Minh. He looked very plastic and was porrly lit by a dark orange light making it less amusing to look at. About 1 minute later and we are pushed out of the mausoleum and I couldn't belive we waited in line for 45 minutes for just a glance at him.