Presidential Palace

This relic complex has become a place to connect and remember Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh's life and work for Vietnam.

President Ho Chi Minh strikes me as the "Nelson Mandela" of Vietnam. People here love and respect him as the biggest Vietnam hero of all time. He was the chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1951. In September 1945 he read the Declaration of Independence , establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

He passed in 1969 but people can still go visit his embalmed body today, luckily this part of the complex is closed on Fridays so we did not have to look at some mummified body.

His face still appear on all the Vietnamese dong notes and they have named the largest city after him.

Interestingly enough the presidential palace looks 1000 times nicer than the average person in Vietnam's place. Thats one thing that political leaders have in common regardless if they are communists, tyron's or whether they were democratically elected they live it up!

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