day five (november 16)

i'm going to cover some of the iteneraries we visited together.
firstly, the Hoa Lo Prison and the Temple Of Literature.
the rest of the itenararies would be covered by my buddy for this trip, yuhkae.

the Hoa Lo Prison was a prison to contain the vietnamese opposing nationalists.
the statues and artefacts in the prison and some sources of both pictorial/written depicts the prisonal lives of the anti-french politicians.
snapped quite a number of photos which include the prison cells that the nationalists lived in during the period of time.
we also looked through some punishments which our tour guide Mai explained to us.

next up. the Temple Of Literature. we visited it during the late afternoon,
which in Vietnam time is where the evening darkness of Singapore comes in.
the Temple Of Literature is where scholars go there for blessings.
It is a huge 'temple' in which is divided into different sections.
as usual, artefacts and different sources were there to let us better understand the usefulness of the Temple Of Literature at that point of time.

and after that, we went for a shopping 'spree'.
notice that ' ', because the things were all of almost the same kind or doesn't suit us.
but we managed to get a taste of 'bargaining.'
nope, not for fishes in the wet market.
but for clothes in the night market,
we were advised to first slash the prices down by 50%,
we tried that but obviously it wouldnt work.
and so we tried and tried, to get a better price.
we did, we bought, and we left.

thats' almost all. the rest of the iteneraries would be covered by yuhkae.

-nicholas.