Hanoi

I didn't do much in Hanoi, just chilled. I saw Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum, visited the Hanoi Hilton, and ate lots of French Toast. The Half of the Hanoi Hilton is ironically now gone and is a huge hotel. The rest of the prison is a museum showing how the French used it to torture Vietnamese revolutionaries. There are two rooms showing some of the American pilots' gear, and pictures of them enjoying life in the prison; playing basketball, doing arts and crafts, and eating 'square' meals. The captions said that even though they were in prison, life was generally good for the prisoners and they were about as happy as they could be in captivity.