After catching up on sleep, having our first local breakfast of pho bo (a beef noodle soup) and the first of many banana pancakes we went in search of the crashed B52 shown in top gear. Supposedly it was in a small lake in the North of the city, but after finding the lake empty we discovered that the plane had been removed to a army compound nearby. We were rapidly ushered away from the entrance by a woman in uniform, then ushered in by some locals and then ushered out again by two men in uniform. Not sure if this qualifies as a successful venture but at least we found it!
Later we made the mistake of visiting the Ho Chi Minh museum (only westerners pay to go in). This turned out to be some weird artistic interpretation of his life featuring many of his pens and a stone he apparently used to scrape of leaches. We used this place to shelter from the first tropical rainstorm- it was useful in that respect.
After a couple of days of exploring and jet lag recovery, we made our way to Cat Ba Island.
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