Hue Hostels - Reviews and Rates

The trip to Hoi An was great, we had a sleeper bus which from the outside looks like a double decker bus but inside it's setup sort of like bunk beds. There's enough room between seats to put the seat back all the way and there's plenty of leg room! I was pretty much out like a light the entire trip!

We arrived around 6am and took the opp...

We decided to only spend a few hours in Hue to visit some of the ancient buildings. So as soon as we arrived we dropped our bags in a travel agency where we got the following bus tickets (to Hoi An), got 2 guys to take us around with their motorbikes and made a 3h tour of the city.

Quick history session:
Hue was the capital of the NGuy...

Das wars dann auch schon fu** uns in Laos, es wurde Zeit fu** uns das dritte Land anzufangen, also auf nach Vietnam. Nach einem etwas hektischen Morgen mit Geldwechselei in letzt** Minute und ein paar Magenproblemen mein**seits (ueb** die man sich vor ein** langen Fahrt imm** freut), ging es dann um 10 Uhr los richtung Hue, Vietnam. Diesmal v**l...

Surprise, surprise, its's still raining. It rained on and off for all of today. For the morning we went round the citadel in the centre of Hue. This was built by the Vietnamese emperors in the 18th century and is loosely modelled on the Forbidden City in Beijing. The whole complex was heavily bombed by the French and then the Americans during th...

Today started off as very interesting after our nights sleep we were actually quite glad to be leaving (not the nicest hotel room in the world) we are staying tomorrow night aswell but we have every intention of finding somewhere nicer. But getting back to our morning we had booked a day tour on a boat down the perfume river in which we were to ...

Last blog a bit wrong. We actually went to Mui Ne and then Nha Trang... Anyway... We got a short bus journey from Sai Gon to Mui Ne; a small beach side town thats just working its way into the guide books. Encompassed by the China Sea to the east and desert to the west Mui Ne is very tropical and has an amazing landscape with huge land dunes, co...

Our minibus dumped us into a cluster of Hue (pronounced Hoo-A)cabbies and hustlers. Once again, groping for the illusion that we had a clue (pronounced Cloo-A), we marched purposefully up the street and ducked into a bar for a beer and some waiter advice. We were pointed to the direction of the tourist hotel area but before we could find it for ...

I thought this was going to be the final blog but, hurrah, it isn't! Mainly this is because I've been so slack I haven't caught up with any of Vietnam and now I need to do it! We had a great time in Hanoi in the end. We really didn't do much except for catch our breath after racing through China and see the places we liked so much the first time...

Our first day in Hue was another beauty: 90 degrees and sunny. We had enjoyed some warm weather in Cat Ba and Hanoi, but it had yet to get hot. So in Hue we busted out the flops and shorts and hit the town. Hue is a historic capital of Vietnam. In 1558 it was the capital of the Nguyen Lords of the south. In 1802 the northern rivals were defeated...

First things first, I believe I have some explaining to do. Back in China, on the approximate date of November 10, Mike and I were on a twenty three hour train ride from Beijing to Xian. Travel can be really boring sometimes and long train rides are the epitome of this. We were about 5 or 6 hours deep into the ride eating our instant noodle dinn...