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Hue Slideshow
Hue
Travel Blogs from Hue, Vietnam
Train to Hue
This is a top pick! ... new city that is home to most of the hotels. We were taken to Ninh Binh III, and it's the nicest hotel we've stayed at in Vietnam. For $11 we got a soft bed, 2 sheets (a rarity in SE Asia), a balcony with a view, an elevator in the hotel (a ...
Vietnam - Hue
This is a top pick! ... couple managed to wrangle a seat in the lounge and we spent the last hour of our wait chatting and moaning about Vietnam Airlines. We couldn't believe that we had encountered such problems with a national carrier airline when previously we had been on 25 ...
On yer bike!
This is a top pick! ... a room for $5 a night (no telly or a/c, but nylon sheets are more comfortable than you think). Between 1802 and 1945 Hue was the capital of Vietnam during the Nguyen Dynasty. The home of the emperors in the Imperial City was built on the same principal as ...
Hue, Day One: Music in the Pines
This is a top pick! ... a late lunch with Phan the moto driver, I arrived in Hue. Phan was one of the thousands of boat people, discontented with Vietnam's economic and political situation back in the 1980s. He left for Hong Kong with his family: "many people died," he said ...
Hue - Day 110-111
This is a top pick! ... the photo is now on display at the Pagoda. Thinking about it, many iconic photos of the 20th century where taken in Vietnam. There's the photo of a naked young girl running down the road burnt after an American napalm attack. A photo capturing the moment ...
Muddy and Wet in Vinh Moc
This is a top pick! ... little biased towards the NVA, though understandingly), but the best read was in the visitor's book. The comments from both Vietnam Vets and some passionate American tourists was saddening and enlightening. After the un-eventful bus ride back to Hue, ...
Long hair, long life, long banana !!!!!
This is a top pick! ... come back. We managed to hire a scooter and we hit the major highway as we wanted to see the Cham ruins here. The danger though, in Vietnam, it is survival of the biggest. So we were being mad and overtaking as the way I see it, if you stick to the edge, ...
Still raining :(
This is a top pick! Today we were booked on the Perfume River tour. There are loads of tombs and temples scattered around the Hue area but this trip combines them all together, plus lunch for only $2! A bargain if ever I saw one! So after some breakfast we followed the ...
The DMZ
This is a top pick! ... to Truong Son National Cemetery. This is Vietnam's version of Arlington and has 15,000 graves of North Vietnam's war casualties. Back in Hue, I checked the weather again...5 more days of rain. I'm outta here! There must be sun ...
Hoi An - Hue - Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... to the point where we can't be polite anymore and want to tell them all to piss off. Left Hoi An this morning to go to Hue which was scheduled to take 6 hours even though it didn't look that far on the map. We soon found out this was because the bus ...
Who knew karaoke could be so risque?
This is a top pick! ... of the place, but I found it to be very similar to a number of other buildings I have seen during my travels in Vietnam. Hopping on motorcycles, we made a 15 minute trip back to Hue. The evening promised to be interesting, but in reality it was a ...
Hue and Bach Ma National Park
This is a top pick! ... and charge 350,000 dong for a 12 seater minibus, which divided by 12, 10 or even 6 is fine. It's school holidays in Vietnam and everywhere is very busy. Well nearly everywhere. We'd been banking on at least one other couple being there, but ther's noone ...
Hue
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Vietnam in our entry from Vientiane, Laos Peoples Dem Rep entitled 'Touring Vietnam with the Irish and Rum!'. Cheers, K & ...
On the bus again
This is a top pick! ... figured we would be there in about an hour. Not quite, as the driver obviously out to make some money, as everyone in Vietnam is, crawled along at a miniscule pace, honking his horn and stopping everytime someone so much as looked at him. It did work ...
Train from Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... not using his bus service even though we never said we were going to. This was our first insight into the two faces of Vietnam spoilt by tourism. The slow bus to Hoi An meant that we arrived late pretty late and still had accommodation to find. After ...
Happy Times in Hue
This is a top pick! ... , litter lay along the shore and the grey weather removed any sparkle the yellow sands and blue waters may have had. Back to Hue for lunch and an afternoon doing nothing in the form of reading and watching movie channels. The view from the 10th ...
Getting accustomed to life in Vietnam...
This is a top pick! (Peter) Now that we've spent over a week in Vietnam, I've started to notice little things here and there that we've had to get used to. I've tried not to see things as right or wrong or good and bad, but instead, I've just tried to accept what I see as a ...
Cold Weather and Rain
This is a top pick! ... 't have heat and the old drafty rooms with marble floors seem to envelope you like a chilly blanket. Hue is the intellectual and cultural capital of Vietnam and a very young city which gives it a vibrant vibe. The citadel is definitely worth seeing ...
Victims of a Drive-By Conversation
This is a top pick! ... up not being helpful at all. Life when travelling is a great connundrum. Back in Hue we made a short sidetrip to the Thien Mu pagoda, a Vietnam landmark. It's a working monastery, and the octagonal pagoda has Buddhas in many of its ...
'Sorry, this restaurant doesn't do vegetables'
This is a top pick! Arriving in Hue after a horrible bus ride and no sleep at all (anyone traveling Vietnam, I'd recommend paying the extra for the sleeper bus for this journey), i was determined not to waste the day so got myself into the sightseeing mode and booked a ...
Rainy days get me down
This is a top pick! ... the lights went out it was obvious I wasn't going to get any sleep. I started having really vivid dreams when we neared Hue that the road was flooded and we were being washed away. Dave however dreamt about Chicken Royales and actually believed we were ...
Hue to go
This is a top pick! Armed with 2 Ab Fabs and a boy called Anal, we arrived in Hue, but before we arrived, we went over the same pass from 7 months previous, but this time, the views were superb. We grabbed a hotel and I went for a walk with one of the Abbers. All of a ...
Northern Vietnam - from Sapa to Hue
This is a top pick! Sapa - Hanoi - Cat Ba Island - Hue I have been in Vietnam for 2 weeks already, time flies. I crossed the border from Hekou, China to Lao Cai, Vietnam without any problems. In Lao Cai, I waited for my friend Donn to arrive from Hanoi and ...