Ngoc Huong Hotel

... nite!            DAY 6 DEC 22 (HUE- HOIAN)     Checked out of Ngoc Huong Hotel and proceed on the road to Hoian.  We passed by Danang and had lunch at one of the restaurant** by the seaside.  ...

... Noodle Soup) for breakfast. Hotel is new and very nice. Recommend this hotel for anybody who visit Sapa. SAPA Elegance Hotel Mr. Dang Ngoc Huong 0912 980 117 info@sapaelegancehotel.com Then we went to visit Ta Van Village of the Zay minority. On the way ...

... World Heritage site so there is some money being put in for restoration.  It is located on the northern bank of Song Huong (Perfume River...so names as many beautiful flowers once grew along the river so many years ago).  The Citadel is the ...

We arrived in Hue with the weather cold and rainy and booked ourselves into a local hotel. With the weather usually being warm, the rooms aren't equipped for cold weather and the room ended up getting quite cold. As a result, we both got quite bad colds ...

... make it that far. When Martin and I stepped out of the train and walked towards the center of Hue, we definitely did not expect a hotel rep on the street to invite us to his tiny village for the Tet holiday after a minute of trying to convince us to stay ...

... course meal at an incredibly beautiful little house. The food was average but the setting was amazing. On the way back to the hotel we ended up drinking home made rice wine (infused with tobacco) until the early hours on a streetside table with the owner ...

... made me rub Tiger Balm on my belly and drink green tea... Who knows, maybe it was just enough to get me back to the hotel! Dinner was torture. Amazing aromatic curries and Tiger beer with popadoms, naans, daal... amazing. For me? Egg fried rice. Arse. But ...

... sun from hoi An has not followed us to the mountains but at least its dry and the temperature is bareable. Booking.com error? Our Hotel the Ngoc Lan is located a 5 min walk from the bus drop off on D Nguyen Chi Thanh, we get to reception and find out why ...

... Alles gut gegangen, nix passiert. Wir sind zwischenzeitlich und nach einem sehr guten Abendessen in einem vietnamesischen Restaurant wieder im Hotel zurück. Für morgen haben wir einen Ausflug zur "Perfumpagode" (Chua Huong) geplant, diese liegt ca. 70km ...

... a historic house The following day we visited the 'Perfume Pagoda'; pagodas and Buddhist shrines built in to the limestone cliffs of the Huong tich mountains, 60km south west of Hanoi. After a bus ride, we took an hour rowing boat trip to the foot of the ...

We arrived in Hue at lunchtime and decided to do a city tour. We went to the Citadel which is like the Forbidden City in China but smaller. It is on 12 hectares of land and had many buildings including seperate areas for the men and women and concubines. ...

Today we spent the day on a motorbike tour of Hue. First we went to what is known as the Vietnam version of the Forbidden City. It's incredible to see the comparison of the two – both are incredible examples of Asian architecture, but the ...

So, last night after returning from Ha Long bay, we boarded a 7pm train to Hue, the Imperial City.  It was to be a 13 hour overnight train, 4 people to a cabin.  The rooms were nice, but the ride was incredible bumpy, especially for still ...

As you can tell from the photos there was not much to do in Hue.  During the war the city was used as the capital and a picture of Ho Chi Minh hangs over the entrance.  It was very hot and we only had one day to do the sights.  We went for ...