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Hue Slideshow
Hue
Travel Blogs from Hue, Vietnam
To Hue By Train
... 1AC (Indian First-class). We arrived in Hue in the morning and spent the afternoon visiting the Citadel. Hue was the major centre of Vietnam during the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945), the last feudal monarchy in Vietnam. The Citadel was the ...
hway we go ( again)
Ok its lost this once so you get the extremely abridged version :D Got Hue , visted the forbidden purple city.....its better than the forbidden city in beijing. The next day we did the perfume river cruise, it sounds more romantic than it actually is.We ...
Ancient Capital
... glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. The hotel staff were really lovely and helpful, which they have been everywhere so far in Vietnam. It's a welcome contrast from the feeling of being a tourist out on the streets when the staff in the hotels are so ...
No Hue
Hue was our next stop in Vietnam. Hue is pronounced like 'way' (if you're American English speaker) with an 'h' in front (so "hway"). If you're non-American English speaker it's pronounced like 'whey' as in 'curds and whey'. So if you read the title of ...
Merry Christmas
... , we do a bit of writing and speaking repetition then heaps of songs and games. Last Sunday they had their Christmas concert at Hue's new 5star hotel. It was soooo much fun, for the last month I have been teaching them christmas carols and working out ...
DMZ bar and 45 beers
A bus trip led us to a new friendship with the Swedish couple, Johan and Anna. We got off in Hue at a hotel. Our group pondered whether we should get our bags off the bus before checking out the hotels. The hotel owner told us that we could get them ...
HUE RESTORATION PROJECT
... ; condensation caused by extreme seasonal changes in temperature [I'm not sure what "extreme seasonal changes in temperatures" means in Vietnam, perhaps Farhenheit 95 in winter and Fahrenheit 451 in summer] .o structural defects caused by ...
Cloudy and Rainy!
... and pinch your hands together they would automatically swim to your spot in anticipation of feeding. From Hue we caught our last overnight train in Vietnam to Hanoi - a 14 hour train journey! Again we enjoyed cold takeaway pizza and beer ...
bikes, rain and mr bean
... , drove over the Hai Van pass (luckily we had quite a careful, slow driver this time!), via Lang Co beach and then to Hue. i'm staying actually within the Citadel walls which is cool. it's so relaxing in these smaller towns. the pace is so slow and the ...
No Hue! (like 'no way!')
... extra day in about which LP writes 'If art and architecture matter more to you than beaches and beer, Hué will be high on your Vietnam must-visit list'. Nonetheless we made the best of a bad job and had a wicked brunch in a little place down a back ...
Forbidden Purple City
12.3 - 14.3.2008 Hue , Vietnam Matka Hanoista Hueen osoittautui yllattavasti melkoiseksi Via Dolorosaksi. Olimme varanneet bussiliput matkatoimiston kautta etukateen ja sovittiin myos etta meidat tullaan ...
Hue
... when we hadnt seen how gross it was inside oops! haha). We also tried one of the '5 colour cakes' which are a speciality in Hue- like shortbread but made of powdered beans! they were a bit weird. We went down the perfume river by boat on the second ...
Historical Hue
... 143 years. (Random Vietnam fact: Nearly every third male you meet in Vietnam is a "Nguyen.") Because of the extensive Nguyen dynasty, Hue is packed with temples, tombs, palaces and pagodas. Unfortunately however, Hue was also ...
Hue
... this too" but placed in his bag or in the crook of his arm. They are like flies, harmless but relentless. That's a Vietnam thing, not unique to Hue. Hope everyone back home is doing alright. Is it just me, or is CNN headlines the same every time I ...
hue
hue was the old capital of vietnam until the 1940's and you can still go around the city to see the old citadel and the emperors' tombs. to see the city, we spent an entire day on a guided motorbike tour, which was just amazing! they took us ...
Cooking Lessons and Bruised Limbs
... animals and vegetables. Once we had gathered all we needed we went back to the restaurant. Our first dish was a local Hue specialty- pork and prawn pancake with peanut sauce. We then made both fresh and fried spring rolls and a hearty bowl of ...
More Ruins
On February 01 we traveled to the City of Hue, in Vietnam. This would be our last stop in Vietnam before heading into Laos. Our plan is to spend a couple of extra days in Hue and just relax before the next leg of our journey, and especially before ...
SMART, INTREPID, UNREADABLE!
... , and they sell everything at Vietnamese prices. Visit them often. A LETTER HOME (1) Dear Gang, We've been in Vietnam for almost two months and of the seven cities we've seen so far, Hue stands near the top. Saigon and Nha Trang ...
The land of more boats
... the king to live in. The city walls are mostly in tack with some bomb damage from the war. Hue is 60km from the demilitarized zone which previously split Vietnam in too. But I did have a first in this town, taking moped taxis. Basically there aren't ...
Hue
1. Tombs of Nguyen Dynasty 2. Lit Bridge at night 3. Citadel walk Ongoing list, just in case you hadn't noticed. We'll fill this out ...
Ni časa za počitek
... nekoc vladal cesar Minh Mang. Mesto je priblizno 70 km oddaljeno od stare meje, ki je drzavo nekoc delila na severni in juzni Vietnam. Prvic v Aziji sva si privoscila prevoz z rikso, kar je bila zanimiva izkusnja. Ne vem, ali je bila za naso pocasno ...
I'm on the hell train to Hue
... of these places were destroyed during the war and had to be rebuilt. Garden house village which is the most beautiful Mandarin house in Hue.. mandarin’s are the kings advisors. It was simply a house that had a garden. Went to Thien Mu Pagoda, famous ...
Hue
... town. I wasnt that impressed with it to be honest. Didnt really do a lot else for the rest of the day. Wasn't to impressed with Hue not a lot to do and lots of people hassling you when your out and about. We left for Hoi An the next morning which is were ...
Hue
Hue was an ancient capitol of Vietnam that we probably did not give the time it deserved. We arrived in Hue at around 6 am after a long uncomfortable night bus. We had a brief look at the city and at the Citadel which is the ancient city ...
enter the fort
... anyways, this area is very close to the DMZ (demilitarized zone) where the US did a lot of bombing during the vietnam war. so just like its neighbors laos and cambodia, vietnam still has a whole bunch of UXOs. i did nt bother to visit the sights, because ...
Hue Days and Hoi An
... are improving with excellent trade relations as Vietnam is becoming one of Asia's tiger economies. The name Vietnam, incidentally, means 'people of the south' as people from the north were scary, Chinese invaders. There is still ...
The Ugly European
... to Hue. Hanoi seems like such a developed city, you forget that route 1--the one major route that goes down the coast of Vietnam, is really just two pot holed lanes. Anyway, the bus picked me up in the middle of a typhoon, and although I was ...
Hue, old capital of Vietnam
... to catch up on a bit more sleep. On the bus was couple from Dublin, Alan and Siobhan who were also going to Hue. Hue is the old capital of vietnam and really has a capital feel about it. It's not that big but lots of wide tree lined avenues and a bigh ...
To see the DMZ
... in the day before DNA testing, now all the mediums have very surprisingly disappeared... Next we saw the museum in the north of Vietnam and walked the bridge to the south of Vietnam past the huge speakers that were used to shout abuse over the river to ...