Hue

It's actually quite hard to visualise what is once would have looked like as most of it is just ruins now, but I imagine that it would have been like a smaller version of the 'Forbidden City' in Beijing.
In it's time it was also used to House one of the favourite royal past times .......elephants fighting with tigers! So today you can see a few elephants here & ride them around grounds. We didn't actually do this but seeing these gorgeous creatures again took us back to our time in India.

We also did the DMZ tour- we wanted to learn as much as we could about the Vietnam war & this took us to the De Militarised zone at the time of the North/South divide & we got to see a section of some of the man made tunnels. The Vietnamese had built Miles of this tunnel system, which were so complex & tiny only they knew how to navigate in & around them. We crawled our way into them & there are so small that I couldn't properly stand up & width wise I had only just a few inches spare either side of me.

It was just incredible to learn that the local families actually lived here, women even gave birth here in these tiny dark tunnels and they are one of the main reasons why the Vietnamese outwitted their enemies & won the war.

views of the itadel

the Citadel ruins

inside the Citadel

inside the Vinh Moc tunnels (DMZ tour)

on the DMZ tour