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Hue
Travel Blogs from Hue, Vietnam
Fun again
... Full Metal Jacket) Next we went on a dragon boat down the Perfume river to the Thien Mu Pagoda,the oldest monastry in Hue. Here we saw the novice monks, little boys mostly from unfortunate backgrounds, cooking and playing. Rather than go back by river, ...
Hue The Lads
... settled and showered at the hotel, we spent the day just walking around finding where things were and trying a few local Hue delicacies, which were mostly various things involving fresh spring roll wrappers. The next day we walked to the citadel and ...
Hue and overnight train
We woke up to another day of rain. We decided to go on a tour of the king's tomb a bit outside the city anyway. Our funny tour guide from the day before came with us. One of the kings in the 19th century was a very melancholy soul ...
Hue Schmay
... the balcony most mornings and it was really nice. If you ever want a cheap holiday but not want to live like a backpacker then Vietnam is your place. The hotels are amazingly nice for the price. Anyway back to Hue. We went over a bridge to the old ...
Hui hui ui ui
... oder? Laufen schon fast den Hotelsandalen den Rang ab, die wir die nachsten Tage immer wieder auf die Barlichttauglichkeit testen werden. Hue ist hell, sauber, warm, trocken freundlich und alle sind auf Raedern unterwegs. Wir auch. Nach ner langen Nacht ...
Hanoi to Hue
... , and post it back to him for his album. We then spent the entire afternoon walking the old capital. Hue was once capital of Vietnam, and the king Emperor resided here until 1945. The citadel housed the royal palaces, complete with official reception ...
Rain stops play…. No Hue!
After our surprisingly uncomfortable night bus from Ninh Binh our final stop in Vietnam was the city of Hue (pronounced hway). We arrived in Hue first thing in the morning to be met by a representative of the hotel we booked and despite standing right ...
Students
Further up the coast, and another short stop, this time in Huế. While having dinner in a restaurant one evening, I met two adorable students, Hà and Trinh (pronounced chin). They waitress voluntarily which lets them practice English with the ...
City Tour
The day after our DMZ tour, Marc and myself did a half-day tour of the city, which was the political capital of Vietnam from 1802 to 1945. As it was the capital during that period, there are a number of tombs in the area, including the impressive Citadel ...
Decaying ruins & busy tombs
There is one hu(e)ge attraction in this town which draws visitors from all over the world, but especially from Vietnam itself: The decaying and disintegrating ruins of the former capitol and residence of the Vietnamese emperors in the 19th century. Most ...
an Unexpected 5 hours
Not somewhere we expected to go but for the 5 hours we spent here, generally very nice and enjoyable. A historic city, it has a citadel (dont ask, i think it means there is a wall) and then another walled place which was where emporers lived but this ...
Off to Hue
... time for a long time ) to visit the DMZ north of Hue. The Demilitarized Zone was the former point which divided north and south Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. the Zone is 10kms wide and you get a sense of tension in imagining what it would have been like 30 ...
Demilitarized Zone
... much, a small museum is there now, plus some tanks and helicopters... but inside the museum there is so much pro-North Vietnam propaganda! Captions underneath photos like "The Americans are scared - they run for their lives onto helicopter" and "What is ...
Short trip to Hue
My next stop was Hue, getting on for half-way down Vietnam and just South of the border during the Americans' abortive attempt to keep out communism. The old town is dominated by French architecture and culture from their days as colonial masters of ...
Hoi An and Hue
... knocking on wood). Why i should be a happy buddha by now: 1) $.2 beer 2) banana pancakes 3) all the deep fried goodness one can find in vietnam 4) the fact that my excercise is typically comprised of the walks between cafes or cafe and ...
Temple Overload
... is a pity as everyone I've met who has been there really liked it. Hue is an old city that was once the capital of Vietnam and so has lots of old palaces and mausoleums of the rulers who lived there. There wasn't anything else to do so I ...
Rain rain and maybe a little more rain
... and lemongrass - looks like I may have a few new recipies when I get home! After another gloomy day we've headed up to Hue, where the flood water has started to drop down a bit now. Tonight's little box of surprises sees us go to an 'Emperors Banquet' ...
First Day in Hue
The overnight bus trip to Hue was pretty uncomfortable. We paid for the soft sleep beds which were softish but no where near as long enough for me, but if they were then they would only fit a handful of people on the bus. Once we arrived in Hue we got ...
Hue
... Vietnamom, prav tako pa je le 70km od tod v gorah potekala prvotna Ho Chi Minh Trail, pot po kateri je severni Vietnam oskrboval borce na jugu. Zaradi tega so Americani med vojno tukaj postavili nesteto vojaskih baz in z zidom ter bodeco zico dejansko ...
Hue History
... huge Citadel, as well as some nearby tombs via dragon boat on the Perfume River. Our guidebook warns of moneychanging scams in Hue, where you give some money, and are given similar-looking, but smaller that what is owed, in return. Despite the ...
Good "night" Vietnam.
... for a game of pool, then we are off to Laos tomorrow. The weather forecast has just confirmed that a Typhoon had hit Vietnam, that explains the rain. Summary of our time in Vietnam We have told by other backpackers that Vietnam is their least ...
Where are Hue?
There's not a great deal to be said about our next two stops Hue and Hanoi, both were stepping stones for us on the mammoth journey we had to get to Ha Long Bay. We had a night and day in Hue where we planned to explore the ancient citadel on foot. ...
jungle fever
... . woke up this mourning weather was grand so off we went to the national park for a days hiking. after one day in vietnam the americans should have realised they had no chance. you want to see this place just totally thick and dense with humidity sky ...
Vietnam: Hue - Ripped Off Yet Again
... by the Americans but still very interesting. From there we headed to Thien Mu Pagoda - one of the most famous structures in Vietnam founded in 1601. Had a nice walk around that before climbing back on the bike and going in search of the royal ...
A rainy walk around Hue
The city of Hue has 3 citadels, they are hidden within each other like russian dolls. Today we planned to wander around the outer citadel (10kms of walls) and tomorrow we hope to cover the inner citadel - the Imperial Enclosure, and the Forbidden Purple ...
The DMZ (where the fighting took place)
I just spent 2 days around the DMZ - which is where North and South Vietnam were split and where the most fighting occurred during the war. It was depressing but also very interesting. The best place to sign up for a tour (or to eat the most delicious ...
Hu-WAY!
... was a bit hairy! In the evening we went to DMZ bar's sister company Little Italy for a yummy slap up Italian meal. We noticed Hue has quite a lively night scene, we'd read that people here go to bed at 10pm but we didn't see anything like it - they ...
Day 61: Road trip to Hanoi
... moment their heads hit the headrest, and we would barely hear from them until Hue. It's a four hour bus journey to Hue, in the centre of Vietnam. The countryside en-route is stunning. It's impossible not to peer out and watch it pass by. There were just ...