Hue Imperial City (The Citadel)

Today we were of to explore the ancient citadel. Today was meant to be a typhoon day but we werent going to let that stop us. Yesterday we had discovered bikes to hire at a very cheap 60,000 (2pounds) for the whole day. I couldnt believe it and kept confirming the price with her. Because it was a restaurant I decided that they could afford to rent …

As you all have heard, the weather has been chilly here in North Vietnam, so we decided to expedite the rest of our travels here and skip Hue so we can get back to the warm beaches of Thailand. The bus schedule worked out nicely however, still giving us an afternoon in Hue to see the Imperial City before our night bus departed for Hanoi at 5pm. We …

We had heard it was still the rainy season but we've been really lucky with the weather so far. However when we arrived at Hué the rain finally caught up to us… It wasn't too bad, just some light showers and not that often.
We arrived early in the morning as usual and had breakfast at the Hué Backpackers Hostel. This hostel is nothing …

Yet another flight today, but this time heading south to Hue (pronounced Hway). I'm certainly racking up the airmiles, think thats 5 flights in the last 2 weeks?! Thing is i'm getting pressed for time now, trying to fit everthing in and when domestic flights are this cheap i've gotta take full advantage of it!!
Surprisingly the flight was on …

Food good. Temples and ruins....they are in varying degrees of restoration. Hue river had just flooded so is wasn't as pretty as I am sure it normally is. Did not visit anything other than the tombs and the Citadel before moving on …

Salimos finalmente desde Hanoi....hacia el sur, en busca del esquivo sol y el calor. Tomamos el bus cama que compramos en la capital y cuando lo abordamos...la verdad es que sus camas nos dieron mucha risa cuando las vimos: eran de porte similar al de una asiento de clase económica de un avión y reclinadas casi completamente, sin posibilidad de …

Hue: Ville sympa sur les rives d'une riviere.

A la sortie du train nous suivons un couple d'allemands et nous voila dans un hotel bien confortable, grande chambre avec balcon!

Lors de notre promenade pres de la riviere nous avons droit au "dragon boat" cette fois! Ici l'attraction est de faire un tour de bateau en forme de dragon …

We went in Huè and visited The Citadel and Thiên Mụ Pagoda.
Moreover we saw the tomb of Emperor Tu Duc …

Hue, the rainy city.

We arrived in the rain, luckily the hotel had sent a car to pick us up. The hotel seemed nice enough when we arrived. Then we noticed the damp on the walls, and realised that it was damp EVERYWHERE! The hotel staff were obsessive about trying to get us to book tours and travel through them, and every time we passed the …

Entry containing 12 photos titled: Hue

... stopping at these) which needs more time and attention before it is gone forever.   Our first stop was the "Citadel" the imperial city, started in 1804 by Emperor Gia Long. This was used by the Emperor for all official functions in the front outer ...

... The external brick and earthwork wall has a perimeter of about 10km and this houses two further enclosures, the next one being the Imperial City which reminds us of the scale and design of the Forbidden City in Beijing. We see carefully laid out palaces ...

... concentration of sights and ruins after being attacked by the French in 1838 and then in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The centre of Hue houses the old imperial city housed between 2 giant walls and 2 moats and is now a UNESCO World Heritage sight. We ...

... specialty, Fried Won Ton, but apparently the recipe is a secret guarded religiously by the townfolk. Now we're in Hue, the former Imperial City. During our three days here, we saw ornate temples in the old citadel, visited the tomb of a 19th century ...

... a moat and massive wall, is the Imperial City, built in the 19th century. At the time, the palaces and temples of the Imperial City would have been sumptious and elaborate in their decoration, however a fire swept through the complex in 1947 and further ...

... reconstruction efforts are in progress to maintain it as a historic tourist attraction. As we walked around and inside the Imperial City large chunks of wall and buildings still show evidence of heavy shelling and bombing. Fortunately, the food ...

... two days in this chaotic city of nine million people we boarded a train for a 1,150 kilometre journey up the coast. The Imperial city of Hue, with its tombs, temples and palaces would be much calmer. Trying to envision a place after reading about it is ...

... ; A few miles on it did materialise and it was a very pleasant ride into Hue.  We entered along the west wall of the Imperial City, following the moat until we hit the river. Then along the Huong River to cross onto the Southbank where the hotel and ...

... , known as the Imperial City, used by the royal family and their servants.   We wandered around the citadel and Imperial City, taking in the impressively ornate ancient structures. At the very centre of the Imperial City lies the Forbidden Purple ...

... but I'm not that much of a sucker. Callous Westerner kept walking 2 miles in the heat - thus saving himself 20p. Entrance to the Imperial City is an exhorbitant $5, but as luck would have it 2 Swedish dudes I had met in the train station in Hanoi the ...