Hue

... (I chose the former - it may have been the funniest ride I have ever been on - and the greatest traffic delay in Hue that day). The other redeeming features are the buildings. Hue is the old capital and seat of the emperors of Vietnam and so has ...

... friends supped coffee and played cards as we watched the lovely Vietnamese countryside go by through the window. As we arrived in Hue it was absolutely bucketing down, so after stopping to put our raincoats on we made our way out of the train station ...

... that we arrived, we got a sense that this town moved at a pace that we were used to! Slightly wetter than Hanoi, Hue seemed cleaner and greener. The Perfume River, which runs through the heart of the town, is lined with pagodas, tombs, statues and ...

... capital of Vietnam, in the day of emperors (as recently as the 20th century). What remains is The Imperial Citadel of Hue, a MASSIVE structure- essentially 4 square miles of a walled city and royal residence, set behind a moat, and filled with museums and ...

... so far been with Hanoi, where we either missed the entire point or it just is a bit disagreeable. Our original estimation of Hue didn't differ too far from Hanoi  as the taxi driver we got from the airport spent the entirety of our journey telling us ...