Hue - Blogabond

After a relatively short bus journey this time, we arrived in Hue, where incredibly it felt like the temperature had risen again! We had a lovely hotel, but our stay was slightly marred by the regular power cuts. Every day the power is turned off between 6am – 1pm or 1pm – 6pm and unfortunately the air conditioning did not operate from the hotels generator, so our room quickly turned into a sauna. Our first day in Hue was spent visiting the citadel, which was pretty impressive, very old and some great buildings.

Hue - The Citadel

There was not a huge amount of other things to do there, unless you travelled quite far out of the city – on the second day we looked around the market, which looked very similar to all the other markets we have visited! We had planned to spend 3 nights there and catch the night bus to Hanoi on the 4th day, as this was the earliest bus we could get. However on the 3rd night just after we had ordered dinner, we discovered that we could get a bus that evening, which meant that we had to pack up all our gear and be ready to leave in 10 minutes. We decided to go for it, and just made it in time. This was another sleeping bus, this time we were the only westerners on it, for some reason they thought we were really amusing! The “beds” on the sleeping bus would be pretty comfortable if you were under 5 foot tall, anything over this and you have to perform a human concertina act just to stop yourself falling out of the bed. The roads are unbelievable, considering the road from Hue to Hanoi is a major route – to the capital, they are very bumpy – a lot of the roads in Cambodia were much better. The journey of 680km was due to take us 12 hours, but ended up taking 16.5 hours. This is partly due to the requirement to stop for food every couple of hours, we turned down the Tofu at 7am!

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Tim and Em on July 12, 2010 from Hue, Vietnam

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Looks like you had a great time! I had the chance to see the beauty of Vietnam when I had my Asia tour last 1999 of November and Hue City is one of the best places there, I must say. Have you try their Hue cuisine? Awesome!

written by IQ Test on July 23, 2010

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