Where people can feel the last breath of the president Ho Chi Minh

Part of his lifetime is deeply attached with two houses in the Presidential Palace in Ba Dinh Hanoi including stilt house number 54 and number 67. The stilt house number 54 used to be the place where he lived and worked for four years (from December, 1954 to middle of May, 1958). Inside the house are three rooms, the one near the pond was where he worked and welcomed guests visiting, in the middle was the dining room, and the other side was the bed room.

To the left of the house is a small garage on display a number of old-aged cars including Pobeda, Pogio 404, a Zit and a bulletproof Volga. Those used to be the cars served him during the time he lived and worked in the Presidential Palace.

The next destination is the 5-meter wide and 200-meter long street with rows of ancient mangoes aside, which is known as Mangoes street. This street was popular to people through the poem “Follow Uncle Ho’s step” written by To Huu: “I’ll lead you in the Uncle’s home/ Mangoes street with white flowers in sunshine…”

The stilt house together with the vestige area accounted for most of his time working and living during the time he worked as a socialist revolutionary, not only remains the historical vestiges but plays the role as an architectural and cultural heritage of Vietnam.

The house, was competed in 1^st May, 1958, and designed in the style of Northwestern stilt house with the length of 15,6 meters, width of  6,2 meters. The upstairs consist of two rooms, each is around 10m2 and used as sleeping room and working room in winter.

Under the house was where he worked in summer time, this was used as the meeting room for the Ministry of Politics to decide the principal issues during the revolution, and used as the place for him to welcome the intimate guests as well.

Currently, nearly 250 documents and historic sites related to Uncle Ho are remained as the last day he was working and living. Upstairs are one bedroom and one office, on the bottom draw of which is the typewriter which he used daily like a pen.

Facilities in his room are just a wooden bed cover with a segde mat, he used an extra mattress, blanket and a small electric heater in winter. On the table in his bedroom are some books, magazines, a hard hat, a semi-conductor radio given to him  by an oversea Vietnamese in Thailand. On the small cupboard near the bed is the watch and the book “The resistance against Nguyen Mong invasion in the thirteenth century” he was reading.

The house number 67 located behind the stilt house (30 meters away), built from 1^st May, 1967 and completed in 20^th July, 1967. The wall is 60-cm thick, the ceiling is over one meter thick, made of concrete. This was his meeting room with the Ministry of Politics to discuss the problem of the US imperialists terrorized the North with bombings (1967 - 1969); this was also where he did his medical treatment and left his last breath and known as house number 67 or DK2.

The wall calendar was kept at 2^nd September, 1969.

The little watch on the cupboard near the bed showing the moment he left his last breath: 9h 47

The medical treatment Room for President Ho Chi Minh City from 24/8 to 09/02/1969 equiped with the most modern facilities for an emergency resuscitation at that time. On the vacation of 55 years since the day he arrived and started his work in the Presidential Palace and 40 years since he passed away, the vestige area is open for people to visit and watch the medical devices for the last medical treatment for Uncle Ho.