It was only a short walk from our hotel, along the second moat, to the imperial palace main gate. Beautiful place to ride bikes if you didn't have three kids.
Hue to Ninh Binh, 14 hours on a bus (apologies to Paul Kelly) December 3rd 2009 Hoi An to Hue was supposed to be a 3 hour journey. Straightforward enough you would think. Not in the hands of the now dreaded An Phu travel. OK, it wasn't that bad but it did take 4 hours and a completely gratuitous stop at a crappy restaurant half an hour from Hue. No air-con and a driver who loved overtaking petrol tankers on blindcorners on mountain passes.
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