The fabulous Museum of ethnology in Hanoi helps make sense of the mind-bending number of ethnic groups making up the population today. The museum consists of 2 separate buildings + they have tranported a number of authentic thatch and mud buildings to the site to see the different ways people have lived in rural Vietnam.
Great museum. Even the two museum shops are excellent. Take a Grab from the Old Quarter to get out there. We made a long hot walk from the museum to Tay Ho (West Lake), through a flower market and a street filled with aquarium shops. At the lake we stopped for Bia Hoi (local draft) and some lunch at a very Viet beer hall overlooking the lake. We were the only tourists there and some of the staff seemed pretty amused we showed up.
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Some very interesting looking musical instruments and carvings. And really amazing that they could move the mud huts. Lord knows how they were able to pick them up and move them without having them crumble…..The go board is also really beautiful. But what is going on in the bottom right section of the board? It appears that there are extra lines and that they don’t necessarily all continue from the lines in the section above. Is that some sort of optical illusion?
Yes it is an optical illusion