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| In the sharp things district...knives, scissors, shears, wire-cutters...a dozen shops like this all in a row |
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| Paint district |
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| The old-fashioned way, measuring tint powder |
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| Gallery district |
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| Up-scale district: bird's nest soup! |
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| Sewing machine district |
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| One of the few new/interesting buildings we saw in the old city |
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| Practicing on his bong |
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| A thing in Hanoi, among tourists anyway, is the people who live along the urban railroad... |
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| Thus |
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| And thus, the real thing; tourists are no longer permitted to wander along the tracks, due to several selfie-inflicted injuries |
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| Another thin building |
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| And another tree that has seen so much |
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| Monument to king Le Thai Do, who kicked the invading Chinese out way back in the day; or possibly someone else; the white pigeons really like this place |
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| Fancy-schmancy restaurant |
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| Power parking |
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| We skipped the Hanoi water puppet show, knowing we'd be forced to watch another one en route to Ha Long; OK, this is not the only reason we skipped it |
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| 90 years... |
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| Moving mannequins selling appliances Uncle Ho could never have imagined |
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| And there he is |
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| Just across from the Trang Tien Plaza, with its Ferragamo, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior, etc.; one wonders what the old-style Stalinist would have made of all this; actually, not |
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| Not to mention the nice Morgan and its owner |
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