I wish I had taken more photos of this place. Half of the museum was very depressing and the other half wasn't as bad. The original prison was huge but its been reduced to a small percentage due to the bombings from the fighting.
Taxi-ed to the city's largest lake. Our taxi driver was flirting non-stop to someone on the phone. Awkward. This lake is also known as Lake of Mist and Big Lake. There are 2 legends about the lake. Legend 1: The lake was created when the Dragon King drowned an evil 9-tailed fox in the forest. Asia loves their 9-tailed fox stories.
HCM Mausoleum: The iconic building that I'm sure you've seen.
It houses remains of Ho Chi Minh. After checking in my camera at a checkpoint,
lined up with a bunch of elementary kids on a school trip (kept staring at us
b/c we were speaking English, not different from Korea after all. lol), went up
a few stairs and finally got to the room where HCM's body is.