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Photo by TechnotrekkerTravel Blog Global roaming: overland from Sydney...Blog Entry Around Hanoi with Uncy Ho
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Nice pic - but stupid comment.
This pagoda has nothing - absolutely nothing -to do with uncle Ho
As mentioned in the blog entry, Uncle Ho did apparently stay in the stilt house on occasion later in his life. I think I picked this up in literature at the site but cannot verify it on the web. If he didn't, so be it. Title was intended as a joke zapp, get a life.
It is actually called the One Pillar Pagoda, built in the 11th century, destroyed by the French in 1954 and rebuilt again in 1955 (by Uncle Ho's communist government).
The stilt house and the One Pillar Pagoda are two different buildings. The wooden stilt house is modeled after the rural stilt houses of one of the ethnic minorities. We saw them in Mai Chau Valley. In Hanoi, these structures are not far from one another, but unrelated. The Pagoda is purely for worship.
me parese una pagina estupenda