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Hue
Travel Blogs from Hue, Vietnam
Hue - Central Vietnam -In search of some sun!!
... didn't know what hit her!!) The weather was hot (80+) and so on came the shorts, sunglasses and factor 15!! Hue is in Central Vietnam about 2 hours south of the former Demilitarised Zone (or DMZ as its known), and is very important historically to ...
DMZ
... people carrier with a tour guide called Ahn. The DMZ was originally established as a dividing line between former North and South Vietnam and featured as a battle ground during the Vietnamese War. Ahn is a wonderful little fellow. He was a former general ...
Calling Florence Nightingale
Well, we didn't plan on doing emergency medical work in Vietnam but today we found ourselves in the thick of it. Look left and see motorbike v. bus accident...CRASH....turn right and see fresh human roadkill underneath a bus...DUCK....don't dare turn ...
Capitale Imperiale...et encore plus de gastronomie
Visite de la vielle citadelle, les tombeaux des empereurs et surtout de la bouffe, de la tres bonne ...
Hue
... the privilege to be woken at half six to get ready to get off the train nearly an hour later. Hue is one of the larger cities in Vietnam and served as the political Capital for over 140 years until 1945 although it certainly doesn't have anything close ...
Hue
Hue is in central Vietnam and its mountains were the location of a lot of fighting during the Vietnamese war. We got a motorcycle tour of the city by a Vietnamese guy who fought with the Americans as a translator. He was quite passionate about ...
Hue and Hoi An
Travelling down Vietnam now on a open bus, which means you pay a set fee to get to Ho Chi Minh City(Saigon) but can hope off and on whenever you want at certain set destination. One is Hue, which to be honest is relatively diappointing ... city has little ...
finally...! nearly leaving laos!
... screwed up with child mums - as advanced sex ed!!! saturday 18 october today we leave laos and arrive in vietnam! haha, mission complete! this morning we rush through breakfast in the sabadee cafe before getting packed up and picking up a ...
Cyclos, KFC and The Imperial Palace
... tired, so it was back to the hotel where they have been asleep for the past hour or two. Now we are going to go in search of some REAL food- this is the food capital of Vietnam after all! Will update as to how the evening goes when we next do an ...
Hue and Hoi An
... of different buildings in it, some elephants and strangely some tanks form the Vietnamese war!Most importantly the tallest flag pole in Vietnam! Quite a claim to have seen that! We were escorted to the citadeal by 2 cyclo drivers, who drove/cycled us ...
Palaces, pagodas and the Pilgrimage Village
... - the longest we'd ever experienced - and deposits you safely into a realm of impossibly green and never ending rice paddies. Hue is for the Vietnam visitor who prefers a palace to a pool and a pagoda to a pedalo. Can't help myself with those Ps. ...
Journey to Hue
... to the Heavenly Lady Pagoda a tall tower on the river bank made famous in countless silk paintings and the intricate weavings of Hue's conical "poem" hats. I saw some amazing Buddha's wished I could of brought them all home. Next we moved onto Tuduc Tomb ...
The Imperial City
... a bed, which we propped out and made into a couch. Much more relaxing! It's a nice ride to Hue through some of the most scenic areas of Vietnam. I would have preferred to have taken the train as it passes around the mountains instead of the ...
Hanoi, Halong Bay and Sapa
... but no complaints there because the food was decent and our guide Duong was great and extremely informative about life in Vietnam including widespread perceptions about the party which are not too favourable due to the truly non-socialist policies of this ...
Ya Darlin', gonna make it happen.
... 20km stretch and then it rejoins the new road with all its wonderfull traffic hazards. But as it was a short trip today it was bearable. We got into Hue about 1pm with no problems at all, and found the hotel easy enough, then went for a walk around town. ...
Only fotos!
Fear and Loathing on the Bus to Hue
... it has been renovated at all. The citadel had a spooky, old world character and housed (aside form most of the population on Hue) a Forbidden City. We had already seen the Forbidden City in Beijing but this was a lot different. It was smaller for a ...
Vietnam Culture
... one of the manderins. Blimey, its just like our royal family in the 1800's....think im all templed out! So ya know, in Vietnam a pagoda is a place of worship and a temple is a structure built to honour some important geezer. Had lunch at a nunnery ...
Hooray for Hue
... picture I took of Gill making the best of the 1.5 metre Vietnamese bed trying the shut off the uncontrollable karaoke music. What a difference, Hue was fun. Well it was fun for us not perhaps for the 2,500 "lackeys who owed blood debts" that the VC ...
War lessons
Hue, the former capital, was our base for a tour taking us through the history and important sites of the 'American War' as they call it in ...
Far Far Hue
... The Citidel take up a large chunk of the area, seeing the Flag Tower also known as the Kings Knight (the tallest in Vietnam), into the Imperial Enclosure, seeing the Nine Holy Cannons, which were constructed but never to be used, the Forbidden Purple ...
Moonshine Rice Wine
... James was politely sipping, i was downing it...... big mistake! it pulverized my insides, making the four hour bus ride to Hue a bit tricky............. damn you, dodgy rice wine!! chilling at the moment in the lovely city of Hue, where uncle Ho ...
The Citadel and beyond!
... was literally a stones throw away, you pay all this money for a hotel and expect a good service, very disappointing! All in all Hue is a really nice town with good food and bars and the citadel was very impressive. We are excited about our next town Hoi ...
Hue Freedom Riders
... coolest things we do in this country. Or Asia in general. The ride took us from Hue to Hoi an, through some remote areas of Vietnam that we would never have found any other way - deserted beaches, mountain villages, gorgeous scenery and some ...
We Was Cruisin' Down the Highway
... location. After seeing the popular Hue book sights, we got a totally different treat...the baby tour. So one of the things about Vietnam is that the babies here are huge. Really, they may be the fattest babies I have ever seen and just so cute. So ...
northern monsoon. winter monsoon
... rural vietnam, with its endless ricefields, waterbuffaloes and gigantic streams. We arrived in Hue at 10 the next morning. Hue is a very famous city in Vietnam, for once it used to be the imperial capital of vietnam, and also it was the sight of a ...
Hue... Vietnam!
... in slapping my arm as I tried to skake him off. :-) The day after that we got up early to get the bus to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) The bus was grand and so was the road but then we had to cross a river on a ferry and of course (!) our bus got stuck ...
Hue
... by a few drinks at the local ex pat bar we headed to the hotel and that was the end of our time in Hue. TRAVELLER TIPS: I highly recommend stopping over in Hue if you get the opportunity. Although a fairly quite town, there are some unique experiences ...