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Hue - the imperial city.
... situated about halfway down the coast. Hue was used as the base for the Nguyen dynasty, whose emperors ruled Vietnam for many years. Therefore there are many emperors' tombs in Hue and there is also the Citadel where they lived. Sadly many of the sites were bombed during the Vietnam war during the 'Battle of Hue', but there is still plenty to see. Obviously, being in this cultural city our first destination just had to be the ...
Mot, Hai, Ba, Yee Haaa
... mother got sick with a cold while pregnant and this left her to be born with only one arm (the other arm was missing up to her elbow). She now makes her living by pursuing this craft and letting people visit her home to see how she does it.
That night, 6 of us opted to have dinner at a local families home and experience some home made Vietnamese cuisine while sitting down and interacting with the family. There was the grandmother of the house, her daughter ...
Hue, Vietnam
... about 3 minutes there was no Oxygen and I felt like I was going to faint. The walls were made of limestone and you had to crouch slightly to fit through so it was very claustrophobic. Hoa reassured us by telling us it's very easy to lose your way and he often gets lost!! He took us all around and down through the different levels including an underground well, a toilet (used by over 400 people), storage rooms, a 'propaganda room' where they used to teach the children about ...
Hue, Danang and Hoi An
... which cannot be told to Mother Pugh or Mother Davies!!! We did a day trip to see some famous landmarks from the Vietnam War including some tunnels which were built by a local village to shelter from American bombs. These were quite interesting but the rest of the tour was not great!!! These tunnels have been made sligtly bigger for westerners but were too small even for me to fit in!! Needless to say Dave ...
Rain...
... looked in every dark corner and asked everyone crossing our way, making complete fools of ourselves, because everyone was positive, that there was no such thing as a living elephant inside the Grand Palace. Finally we met a local guide though, who confirmed that there is an elephant, it was only just there yesterday, but today it wasn't coming... Great! So we went back to the Hotel, wet and disappointed, not knowing, that this wasn't the worst part of our day ...