Thien Mu Pagoda Hue

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 …

We heard great reviews about the motorcycle tours organised around Hue, not only from Lonely Planet, but also from tourists we met along the way. It was therefore a priority of our journey to have such an experience. Just some back ground information, most hotels in Hue offer bus/boat tours of the city, which range from around 80,000 VND (4 USD) …

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, 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 …

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We left our hotel this morning at 10:00am, to make our way to the airport. We are flying to Hue, Vietnam today, this is a city in Central Vietnam. It was only a one hour flight, and when we stepped out of the plane it was raining, but it does seem to be warmer than it was in Hanoi.

Off the plane and straight into our …

Another excellent breakfast at the HueNino, before borrowing one of their bikes and heading out into the Vietnam traffic.I headed out of town, and it was nice to get away from all the hustle and bustle for a while. I head for the Tomb of Tu Doc - one of the emperors.
His final resting place is a very peaceful place, with sculpted gardens and …

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Today we woke up at around 8 AM, and packed our bags to leave for Hue, Vietnam. We left the hotel en route for the airport at 10 AM. The drive to the airport was 1 hour. When we got there, we checked in, went through security and got ready to go. We boarded our plane at 12 PM. It was a Vietnam Airlines Airbus A321, a medium haul very …

Etter at Kristin hadde blitt litt kjent med Hoi An og vi hadde fått sagt hadet til alle vi har blitt kjent med i byen, så bar det nordover til Hanoi, men først skulle vi innom Hue og Dong Hoi/Phong Nah. Belinda hadde planlagt og booket et skikkelig rotte-res nordover med null marginer for forsinkelser eller andre avvik:-)

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Efter at have forladt Hanoi fredag aften med natbussen, ankom vi til Hue omkring klokken 9 om morgenen Hue er beliggende i det centrale Vietnam, omkring halvvejs mellem Hanoi og Saigon (der nu officielt hedder Ho Chi Minh City). Vi blev sat af midt i Hue, og gik saa paa jagt efter et biligt sted at bo. Som saa mange andre steder, er de fleste af de …

... amazing to think that this amphitheatre was used right up until the early 1900's. We take a look at Thien Mu Pagoda, close to the citadel in Hue. We see a rusting blue Austin car which transported a monk called Thich Quang Duc who burned himself to ...

... Perfume River where we had booked a daytrip. We boarded our boat and set off down the river making our first stop at Thien Mu Pagoda which was set up high on a hill overlooking the Perfume River. Behind the Pagoda was an active monastery where monks ...

... (the driver) to wear, and we set off. We took a gorgeous road along the Perfume river, past the lovely old Thien Mu pagoda and many villages. (Leaving the bike whilst visiting attractions becomes an expensive business, as you feel obliged to buy a drink ...

... for is the occasional stray water buffalo or palm frond in the road. On our ride we visited the beautifully serene Thien Mu Pagoda. Although it has a beautiful setting overlooking the Perfume River and is an architectural gem, it is best known as the ...

... I can't remember right now but a good few years. From here we zoomed back through the paddy fields and along the beautiful Thien Mu pagoda overlooking the river which is also home of the car (what's left of it) that the monk Thich Quang Duc burnt ...

... with perfume and the river would carry their fragrance downstream. The official symbol of the city is the Thien Mu pagoda, the largest pagoda in Hue and built in honor of Nhu Lai Buddha. Constructed in 1844, this 7-story octagonal ...

... . In the morning we boarded our Dragon Boat that took us down the Perfume River. We had two stop offs. Firstly was the Thien Mu Pagoda and Temple. This was a lovely area right on the river banks where there were monks at prey and a really tranquil and ...

... and insect repellent (Stupid Tourist Man strikes again!). Then it was over the train tracks and down a dirt track to the Thien Mu Pagoda, built in 1601 and overlooking the Perfume River. This is regarded as the centre of Buddhism in Vietnam (60% of the ...

... Phan took me around the outskirts of town. At Tu Hieu Temple, a dozen monks chanted and drummed while I lit incense. At Thien Mu Pagoda, the Perfume River flowed easterly between the hills. At Tu Duc's Mausoleum, I saw a great example of an emperor ...

... today, which stopped at many of the royal mausoleums from the Nguyen dynasty along the way. First we stopped at the Thien Mu Pagoda. In 1963 a monk from this monastery went to Saigon in his Austin car to protest against the repression of monks by ...