Today we arrived in Hue. We are only planning to stay here for one day as we have lots of stuff to do in the rest of our holiday. We booked into our hotel and immediately hired a motorbike to get around the city.
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| Big flag pole at the former home of the emperor |
The city used to be the home of the emperor before he abdicated and communism took over in the mid 1900s. In the centre of the city is a big stone walled 10k in circumference square called the citadel which is where the emperor used to live. It also housed all his building and other stuff.
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| Really nice pagoda |
It was great to look around this centre which contained loads of Vietnamese history. In the afternoon we went for a drive on the motorbike outside the city to a nice pagoda (see above) and admire the view of the river (see the photos below). There was some great scenery of mountains, very similar to Laos were I was a few years ago, which is not surprising as Hue is not very far from the Vietnam / Laos border.
Were off again tomorrow, back to Danang as there are some other places around Danang we would like to visit.
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| Around Hue |
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| Around Hue |
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| Around Hue |
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| Around Hue |
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