Hue Travel Blogs - Page 7

Ariving anywhere in Vietnam you are guaranteed a very warm welcome by a throng of touts attempting to cajole you into staying at a hotel where they will get a commission for your introduction. We always run the gauntlet of the touts in favour of going to the places we choose from our own resea…

The World Cruise: Hong Kong to Singapore

Hue is distinctive for having wide streets lined with trees. By all accounts it has an impressive intellectual & cultural heritage, which Katie & I shamefully failed to appreciate.   We were only in Hue for the weekend and on Saturday I felt crook so I stayed in bed with some medici…

Our evening flight to Hue was delayed by an hour just as we were about to board due to a torrential thunderstom.  I thought for sure we'd be waiting several hours, but to my astonishment, we ended up taking off in the still driving rain and turbulent weather.  It was one of the most harro…

It's time to fly to Hue. Arrived at night, I planed 3 days there. First morning : Visit of the flag tower, Thai Hoa Palace, Forbidden Purple City.First afternoon : Hopped on a taxi motorbike to visit the numerous mausoleums located in the south of Hue : Minh Mang (must-see), Khai Dinh, Tu Duc (ther…

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When this trip starts, there is something called...a plan. Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Thailand, Malaisia, India and Nepal again. I wonder what really happens and where I'll end up.

Hi all and welcome to our travel blog. I hope it was not too much of a pain to sign in! Rick and I are leaving for South Africa June 13 from Vancouver and we will be on a Safari for the following 2 months. But first we are headed to Regina. This website has really cool maps and we can upload pictures (if we can find a computer). Hope you all found this okay.

Not a hell of a lot of photos today since mostly travelling (boat/bus/train), but I was pleasantly surprised at how well I you could sleep on the train.  After hearing some painful tales of the overnight bus from Hanoi to Hue, the train was always going to win. I managed to hitch a lift to the…

Travelling through Vietnam in september/oktober 2007.

Eight months in Thailand,Cambodia,Laos,Malaysia,Burma and Singapore

Ok, I spoke too soon.  Did I say that the train had to be better than India?  Ah, alas it wasn’t.  Same, same!  It is peak season here in Vietnam at the moment ��" not for tourists but for locals.  Hence the Reunification Express train was packed with Uni students.&nb…

My Travels through the Philippines with my little pet Monkey Lauro and Nepal and Vietnam with my amazing girlfriend Zohar :)

We have arrived into Hue after a bus trip from Hoi An and it was such a nice trip, as usual.We walked from the bus station into town, or what we thought was the direction of town, but it seemed that we were heading away from town, anyway Johnny (I) asked two lovely ladies where to find a hotel and …

A tour of Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia