Hue Travel Blogs

In the morning, The Canadians and I headed to the Citadel. We got there and tried to be interested, but to be honest, we weren't. It was probably a combination of the heat and not knowing enough about the significance of what we were seeing. We walked around for a bit and then left. The Canadians w…

***English version to come soon*** Het is nog maar middag hier maar ik moest gewoon ff schrijven omdat de kookles echt zo geweldig leuk geweest is :D Ik was nog super moe deze morgen, hoewel ik niet slecht geslapen heb. De dorm was echt wel leuk omdat (heb ik dat gisteren al verteld? Ik denk het n…

Gegen acht hat mich der Minibus des Hotels zum Bahnhof gebracht. Allerdings hatte der Zug gute 20 Minuten Verspätung. Als er dann schließlich gekommen ist, hatte ich zunächst ein Abteil für mich. Kurz nach Hue überquert der Zug die "Brücke am Quai". Die erste größere Station nach Hue war Da…

Two days in imperial Hue, the former capital of Viet Nam.I was lucky enough to meet up with my Vietnamese friends I had met in Saigon.  We browsed the city on mopeds and then did a 25km ride to Vinh Tanh beach (where I was the only westerner!). On the way there we stopped at the city of tombs,…

DAY 1 After a 13 hour bus journey where I seemed to be the only one who couldn’t get any sleep,maybe something to do with the constant honking and hair raising speeds, but we arrived in Hue at around 9am. We immediately found a really nice hotel room and checked in before heading to the citadel…

my first day was spent the way i like to spend days after overnight journeys: strolling around, sitting around, sleeping with me walking around until heat and 'HEY FRIEND - CYCLO / MOTO / TAXI' yells demanded a stop in a cafe. and there were lots of stops the heat in central vietnam is unbe…

Set off to tour the Demilitarized Zone at 6.00 am - a long 12 hour day ahead. The DMZ was a stretch 5km either side of the Ben Hai River which formed the border between North and South Vietnam. The US set up bases running virtually parallel to the southern side of the DMZ. This area saw some o…

Midday.  In Hue.  It’s a little grey.  Sad to say.  Hey, that all rhymes; “I’m a poet but I jus’ don’t know it!” etc, etc… so yeah, a few hours further north from Hoi An ( “How I miss you already Hoiiiii An!” ) I have arrived at the former Imperial seat of Viet…

KERRY - After a lot of deliberation in Hanoi over taking the open tour bus through Vietnam we decided to book it. This is a ticket where by you pay in advance for all your legs of the journey (from Hanoi to Saigon or vice versa) and can hop on and hop off where ever you like.  The bus stops at…

On Wednesday we ended up wandering around Hue trying to find the local food specialty specific to Hue. We saw this random alley with a sign pointing down it with the the words "Banh Beo" and rice specialty cake as the translation given. It turned out to be what I was looking for and I was so happy …

I broke my new Monopod the first night I was here. just my luck. actually, it still works but the middle segment sort of got stuck.Anyway, today I went to Hue. I originally had an overnight stay at the city planned, but 2 stays prior to my vietnam flight I changed my mind thinking that it would i'd…

Having not really enjoyed being herded round like cattle on the DMZ tour, we decided to avoid the boat tours offered around Hue and charter a dragon boat ourselves. Setting off early, accompanied by an old lady who couldn't wait to set down her spread of souvenirs for us to buy (or not), and a ratt…

  Hier nous avons fait le tour de la DMZ. La zone demilitariser de l'ancien nord/sud Vietnam. 11 heures de bus a visiter d'ancien site de batailles entre les Nord vietnamiens et les Americans. le meilleure de cette journee demeure les Tunnels de vinh moc que nous avons visiter evidement a la …

I've been moaning a lot lately on this blog. I don't think I'm the type of person who is impressed by everything like some people I've met along the way, so I find it much easier just to write exactly what I felt about a place whether that be positive or negative. I like to write about how I actual…

My 7 madness, the period in which everything is awesome and all things that will irritate you later are at least charming, is over and after arrival in Hue the hot selling is starting to irritate me; Moto1 : Hello moto?Hyo     : No thank you [with a friendly smile]Moto2 : Hello…