Tomb of Khai Dinh 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 …

Na genoten te hebben van het mooie en gezellige stadje Hoi An, is het tijd voor onze volgende stop. Het misschien nog mooier stadje Hue. Hue was sinds begin de 19de eeuw de hoofdstad van Vietnam en staat bekend voor het cultureel erfgoed rondom en in de stad. Dit zijn o.a. keizerlijke mausolea en de keizerlijke stad.

Rondom Hue zijn …

We had a great time today.
We checked out of the Valentine Hotel in the morning, and went down to Hue Backpackers.

You're right that everything is overpriced here - a cup of sugarcane juice costs 15k here, but 6k in Saigon!

We went to find a bank where we could change traveller's cheques, but we couldn't find any, and it was …

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) …

We got on the train in Hanoi. To our surprise, most of the other passengers seemed to be tourists too. Entering the cabins we noticed that it was very roomy, with four big bunks in each cabin and plenty of space between them. As usual, the soft in soft sleeper is more of a relative term, consisting of a thin mattress on a hopefully sturdy wooden …

14 hours didn't go too badly & we arrived early morning in Hue. We weren't dropped off at the hostel but we got a taxi with a few people from our bus which was handy - it was just round the corner but I was happy not to have to carry my bag! This hostel was the same chain as the Hanoi one but it had a lot more of a relaxing atmosphere. The area …

Consueta sveglia ore 6:30, colazione con banana pancake fatto al momento e pane con marmellata. Ciciarata con un vicentino, check out con promessa di super tripadvisorata al maitre pappara (tralasceremo di dire che alle 7 sono iniziati i lavori di costruzione della piscina?!)

Attesa del bus in ritardo canonico e via sul torpedone dove ci …

left Valentine hotel this morning, and moved into Hue backpackers.
Had breakfast at Valentine; pancakes with pineapple.
then dropped off our bags at the hostel and went to get some bikes. then it started to rain and got into an argument about what to do, in the end going back to the hostel to use the internet, to get some better info.
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The next stop on our open-bus tour up the coast of Vietnam was Hue, a former capital of Vietnam and its cultural heart. Upon arrival we soon found a 3-dollar per night dorm at "Hue Funny Hostel", a cute little place run by a very pregnant woman. Hue is famous for a UNESCO citadel and tombs of former emperors. Visiting the citadel, we found it quite …

So another journey on public transport and another tale to tell! We took the overnight train to Hue from Hanoi and our train journey ended up taking eighteen hours when it should have taken eleven hours. We were woken at 6 a.m. by a train announcement in Vietnamese. We were stationary for the best part of two hours when we started to see the …

... on the wall. Interesting to see how cultures merge. From there, we passed into another room which I believe held the actual tomb of Khai Dinh. It was ornate, but really too dark to see particularly well. There was a large golden statue of the emperor, ...

... saw....I think the rain doesn't help when site seeing....our feet were soaking!! Next stops were the tombs of the kings, first Minh Mang and then Khai Dinh. These were really interesting and had some stunning pieces of architecture. Last stop was a trip ...

... us an excuse to use our super-macs that we had bought in Pingyao (China) and not used since! First stop was the tomb of Khai Dinh This was a huge complex with a boating lake, hunting area, tmeples and of course the tomb itself. Our guide explained that ...

... Our last tomb to visit is said to be the most impressive and elaborate tombs of all the emporeres buried in Hue; The Tomb of Khai Dinh. As you walk into the tomb complex the statues and buildings are grey and bland but when you step inside the ...

... million alone). Perhaps the most impressive tomb of the day, in terms of over-the-top elaborateness, was the Tomb of Khai Dinh.  Built from 1920-31, the tomb's construction used modern technology and blends Vietnamese and European ...

... the finest of all the imperial tombs.  There are lovely ponds, bridges and pavilions.  Our seond stop was the tomb of Khai Dinh.  This is the last of the Nguyen Dynasty mausoleums and was built between 1920 and 1932 but due to the harsh ...

... good driving, we managed to get around to all the main sites, most of which date from the mid-1800s until the 1930s. The tomb of Khai Dinh, the next to last of the Nguyen emperors (1916-1925) has a larger than life size bronze statue of Khai Dinh with a ...

... tried to lead us to a different tomb (again for money); we said no and kept on trucking. We first went to the Tomb of Khai Dinh which was the most developed and the most recent. It was pretty impressive. The interior of the tomb was all ceramic mosaic ...

... pine trees. He served as emperor from 1848-1883, the longest of the Nguyen emperors. Next, it was off to the tomb of Khai Dinh which wasn't completed until 1931, six years after his death. This one was magnificent, mainly due to the grandiose buildings ...

... place to worship the Emperor), pavilions and a tomb or sepulcher (contains his remains).   We were not very far from the Tomb of Khai Dinh and Minh Mang. We went to Khai Dinh first. Entrance for this tomb, Minh Mang and Tu Duc were ...