February 9, 2012
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Vietnam Part 10: Kickin’ it Old School.
Our next destination was to the Tu Duc Royal Tomb.
It starts off with a view of Luu Khiem Lake.
From there, you can take the bridge over to Xung Khiem Pavilion pictured above.
The Stele Pavilion. I just looked it up and it’s a little sad.
The NguyenBros with the Mandarins in the forecourt. Yeesh, I don’t know why I’m craning out from behind the statue so much.
I like this picture of my folks. This is why you take up photography.
Hoa Khiem Palace.
The nearby Tu Hieu temple.
Moss covering most everything out here.
It’s our first day in Hue and my dad wasted no time in visiting all his old schools. There were large gates to enter the school grounds and my dad would ask the gate guards if it was okay for an old man to show his family around the schools he had once attended. Fortunately, it was after school let out, so we were able to walk the school grounds.
This was his high school- one of the biggest of its day. They’ve since erected a statue of Ho Chi Minh in the square (the statue was inscribed with a different name- my parents explained to me that Ho Chi Minh gave himself several names), and my dad was mad that that man had nothing to do whatsoever with his high school and yet here was his statue.
It still felt really old as we walked about.
My dad attended an all-boy’s school. This was the equivalent all-girl’s school
