Annual Trip for BELTEI Management Team (Hanoi City).

Second Day: Hanoi City, May 14, 2016.

This photo of H.E. Ly Chheng and Lok Chumteav took at Vietnam.

In the early morning, the morning call rang at 6:30a.m. Mr. Kev Savuth, a Campus Director of BELTEI 8, and I got up at 5:30 a.m. because we have to be ready for the trip. Therefore, we left the room at 5:40a.m, and we were waiting for the others at ground-floor of the waiting room.

This photo took at the waiting room in the early morning.

All the luggage of Management Team kept on my right side before having breakfast. I was waiting friends until 6:30a.m. because some of my colleagues were still in the rooms because they needed to prepare everything and took bath before leaving their rooms.

I turned on my Ipad and connected with hotel wifi to posted some photos on Facebook in order to let my family knew what I was doing and going to go when I have tripped to Vietnam.

We were having breakfast at The Ann Hotel.

When my some of my colleagues went to the first floor, we went to have breakfast. The breakfast time is buffet. There were some kind of food such as Asian food and Europe food.

My favorite breakfast food is bread with steak and a cup of coffee. I didn't eat much breakfast because I did not want to have problem while I was traveling.

These people are Mr. Buth Dimang, Ged. Academic Managr, Mr. Kim Vireak (me), B13, Mr. Morn Samear, B11, Mr. Sunnaren, B14, Mr. Yeang Koeun, B10, Mr. Phoisda, Mr. B1, and Mr. Praseth, B4.

 In the breakfast time, we have also chatted about our trip that we are going to visit. It was the important time for us to have time to trip one time a year to abroad. We would like to say thanks for Your Excellency Director-General to give us chance to visit abroad also learn the culture shock which we have learned from the books only.

H.E. Ly Chheng and Management Team took photo outside the museum.

After having breakfast at The Ann Hotel, we were moving to visit Ho Chi Minh Museum where is one of the most resourceful museums in Hanoi and undoubtedly in the country, Ho Chi Minh museum is conveniently located in the Ho Chi Minh complex.  

it is opened everyday except for Monday and Friday, from 8:00-11:30 and from 14:00-16:30.

I took photo with Mr. Seng Hy, a Campus Director of BELTEI 12.

It can be combined in your day trip to visit Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, One-pillar Pagoda, Ba Dinh square and the War Memorial. The whole museum is a elaborate description of Ho Chi Minh’s life, with 8 chronological topics. The first one, from 1890 to 1910 modeled after his upbringing, hometown and youth. 

The second topic concerns the next ten years where Ho Chi Minh travelled the world to find out a way to rescue the country from colonialism.

The museum isn't much far from the gate, but all the visitors had to queue and walk to there around 1 hour. The guards weren't allowed us to talk or took photos in there. On the other hand, we were also not allowed to standstill in there. We just passed by the place where President Ho Chi Minh corpse was lying on his bed. 

I took photo with Mr. Buth Dimang, the Ged Academic Office Chief.

Then all Management Team of BELTEI Group took photos outside the museum for memory to be there on May 14, 2016.

We spent around 20 minutes to take photo with the beautiful garden. Then, the two tour guides, BELTEI tour guide and Khmer Krom tour guide to bring us to visit Ho Chi Minh's home.

Before vising Ho Chi Minh's home, we have watched the three cars of him which were given by France's government and Soviet Union's government (now Russia government). The tour guide said these three cars had never used although they are belong to Ho Chi Minh because he was very busy with his works and met his people at that time.

These are Ho Chi Minh's cars.

Around his home or his cabinet is surrounded a big lake with beautiful fishes that he fed them when he was alive. President Ho Chi Minh was always fed these fishes after he was free from work in order to relax his brain. 

Taking about 7 minutes to watch these three cars, we were moving to visit Ho Chi Minh's home and Ho Chi Minh cabinet which were made by woods.  

These cars are still new because Ho Chi Minh was rare to use them because of their busy works. The place where Ho Chi Minh lived with worked were simple but beautiful scenery and suitable to meditate or make the policies and strategic planning. 

Behind the photo is Ho Chi Minh's lake.

Then we moved to visit President Ho Chi Minh's lake. Mr. Khan Soeun, the Administration Office chief, and I took this photo for souvenir because we are rare to be there. We just saw it on Google or YouTube only.

Standing in front of the lake, there was cool fresh air blowing behind us to make our feel comfortable. It seemed we were in the high mountain. I tried to take deep breath fresh air into my lung.

Mr. Khat Soeun, who is one of my good friends, have worked for BELTEI for ages. He is a helpful man when people around him need his help. The important event which I have never forgot is the presence of him to attend my aunty's funeral and the first wedding of my elder son. I can say he is a good friend of mine.

This is a home of President Ho Chi Minh.

This is his cabinet and small library.

This is his bed room.

This long table with chairs are under his home.

Then we were moving to see the One Pillar Pagoda where is closed to the Ho Chi Minh. The photo which is behind me is the Pagoda. It is a famous ones in Vietnam, and it is also added in the Vietnamese General Education as well. The Vietnamese called "Chua Mot Cot".

I used to read it in the book in 1981. It is for Buddhism. We can see the Buddhist's flag is hanging behind my right side photo. It is not big but it has only one pillar.

In Vietnamese book, the column is in the middle of a small lake, and the lotus is under the blue water. It looks beautiful and fresh.

This is a story of One Pillar Pagoda of Vietnam which was quoted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The One Pillar Pagoda (Vietnamese: Chùa Một Cột 񣘠𠬠榾, formally Diên Hựu tự [延祐寺] or Liên Hoa Đài [蓮花臺]) is a historic Buddhisttemple in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It is regarded alongside the Perfume Temple, as one of Vietnam's two most iconic temples.^[1]

The temple was built by Emperor Lý Thái Tông, who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the court records, Lý Thái Tông was childless and dreamt that he met the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who handed him a baby son while seated on a lotus flower. Lý Thái Tông then married a peasant girl that he had met and she bore him a son. The emperor constructed the temple in gratitude for this in 1049,^[1] having been told by a monk named Thiền Tuệ to build the temple, by erecting a pillar in the middle of a lotus pond, similar to the one he saw in the dream.^[2]

The temple was located in what was then the Tây Cấm Garden in Thạch Bảo, Vĩnh Thuận district in the capital Thăng Long (now known as Hanoi). Before the pagoda was opened, prayers were held for the longevity of the monarch.^[2] During the Lý Dynasty era, the temple was the site of an annual royal ceremony on the occasion of Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha. A Buddha-bathing ceremony was held annually by the monarch, and it attracted monks and laymen alike to the ceremony. The monarch would then free a bird, which was followed by the people.^[2]

The temple was renovated in 1105 by Emperor Lý Nhân Tông and a bell was cast and an installation was attempted in 1109. However, the bell, which was regarded as one of the four major capital works of Vietnam at the time, was much too large and heavy, and could not be installed. Since it could not be tolled while left on the ground, it was moved into the countryside and deposited in farmland adjacent to Nhất Trụ Temple. This land was widely inhabited by turtles, so the bell came to be known as Quy Điền chung, which means Bell of the Turtle Farmland. At the start of the 15th century, Vietnam was invaded and occupied by the Ming Dynasty. In 1426, the future Emperor Lê Lợi attacked and dispersed the Chinese forces, and while the Ming were in retreat and low on weapons, their commanding general ordered that the bell be smelted, so that the copper could be used for manufacturing weaponry.^[2]

The temple is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter, and it is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist symbol of purity, since a lotus blossoms in a muddy pond. In 1954, the French Union forces destroyed the pagoda before withdrawing from Vietnam after the First Indochina War, It was rebuilt afterwards.^[1]

A replica was built in Thủ Đức in Saigon in the late 1950s and early 1960s.^[1]

Ha Long Plazza Hotel.

Taking full morning to visit Ho Chi Minh Museum, BELTEI Management Team was moving to Ha Long Bay in order to visit the beautiful more than 3,000 islands. The traveling took 8 hours from Hanoi city to Ha Long bay. We arrived Ha Long Plazza Hotel at 8:15p.m. 

The hotel rooms are beautiful and comfortable. I can say this hotel is luxurious ones in Hanoi.  

All the BELTEI Management Team stayed in this hotel for one night with a sweat dream because were were tired of long traveling on the bus.

I was thinking about the more than 3,000 islands in Ha Long Bay. According to the tour guide said among the more than 3,000 islands, there are 2,000 having their names and also has its history. Driving a long the road, I looked through the bus window, there are green and beautiful sea bay full of islands.