Thong Nhat Park
Reclaimed swampland turned lakeside city park, built by volunteer labor around a lake named for an old land measure.
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This guide to Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi starts with a count of the gates in its long iron fence, then goes back to a French-era rubbish dump and the thousands of volunteers who cleared it in 1958. President Ho Chi Minh turns up in 1960 to plant trees, and the park's name, Unification, ties it to a divided country. Best heard walking the lakeside paths beneath the banyans, with the island statue in view.
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