Ngo Quyen Hue

hello everyone i am am now in a place called hue which is in the middel of vietnam its much more relaxed here and a bit cheeper that hanoi there is a massive city wall that surounds the old city which is quit cool, as hue used to be the capital city a few 100 years ago when the kings ruled vietnam ...

... and stop barking at strangers. When the tail-less dog gets too old to protect, they sell them to the butcher. Nasty people. My Godzilla has no tail to speak of, will have to remember to ask Grandma to knit her a mini blanket when she gets old so she can keep her nose warm.<br><br>One really fun thing about VN is the music. They may have moved on in terms of the war but they're stuck in time when it comes to western music, i just LOVE it! 60s and 70s ...

<br>We traveled for 22<br>hours today: Bus, train, taxi, plane, taxi, train, taxi. We're worn<br>out! We started yesterday, Thursday at 6pm boarded a completely<br>packed bus for an hour and a half ride to the train station then a 8<br>hour or so train ride back to Ha Noi. We were able to get a few zs<br>on the train which was good because when we disembark it is 4:40 in<br>the morning and we are greeted by tens of taxi ...

... was duable.<br><br>After a couple of nights in Hoi An John, Lee (England) , and I headed up to Hue which was a 3 hour bus ride. We're currently staying at a hotel for $2 which has a decent sized dorm room with 5 beds, a private bath, and a balcony overlooking the river. There's noone else staying here at the moment so we have plenty of room for ourselves which is sweet!<br><br>Today we went on a riverboat tour down the perfume river. We stopped at a ...

... came over and he was telling them about me and how he fought with my country. He had them practice English with me and I used it as an opportunity to practice my Vietnamese with them. They giggled as I mispronounced the hardest language I&#8217;ve heard here yet. I know roughly how to say every number from 1 to 1 million, I just don&#8217;t know how to pronounce them correctly, which does me no good. They helped me a good bit. <br><br>The old man, Mr. Kha, asked if I cared to buy them ...

... outing was spent exploring the market where we got a wicked tea-set (Wow... We're so hardcore!) before heading to the supermarket for a few essentials (eg bug spray)!<br><br>The weather then started turning so we had another quiet few days...<br><br>We decided to brave the horrid weather (and floods) and hired a moped to explore the royal tombs (rulers from the Nguyen dynasty). They're found just outside of Hue and were awesome! We managed to get to all but one of them ...

Hue (26/7)<br>Hue<br><br> We arrived in Hue in the mid morning totally exhausted from yet another sleepless overnight bus. We took the first cheap hotel we could find and rushed around making plans for leaving the next day and booking the DMZ tour. We didn't get to spend too much time getting to know Hue but I would have liked to have stayed there a few more days.<br><br> There seems to be a lot of park space and areas for kite flying and soccer playing ...

... so shaking her head with disapproval she nevertheless helped us to get petrol and once again go through the gears and importance of the neutral gear (ahhhh so that's how you stay still!). We swervingly, shakily made our way to the station trying desperately hard not to have to stop, as it was debatable as to whether we would manage to start again. Luckily Vietnamese roads are unlike ours in that crossings are not a matter of highway code rules, but instead pure confidence and ...

... br><br><br>y luego a la Tumba de Tu Duc<br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br>y a la Tumba de Khai Dinh.<br><br> <br><br><br><br><br>Después de un día duro, un bocata en la piscina y masajitos en el hotel. Esta vez no fue tan bien como en Hoi An. Aparte de que el sitio parecía un prost ...

... huge buffet and the food was all incredibly tasty. We headed to the Citadel feeling a lot fuller. The Citadel is the equivalent to the forbidden city in Beijing, only on a much smaller scale, partly due to the fact it was bombed flat during the war with America. The government are trying to rebuild it, which is a concept I always find strange as it is usually glaringly obvious which parts are original and which aren't, I can't get used to the idea of new builds being passed off as an old ...