http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Vietnam , North Central Coast , Hue en-us Sun, 06 Dec 09 20:07:14 +0000 Sun, 06 Dec 09 20:07:14 +0000 Arrived in Hue and stayed in the first hotel we came to where the bus dropped us partly due to the very friendly guy working there calling us in and knocking down the price. Got settled in then went for a stroll along the slightly more chilled streets although with even more rickshaw and motorbike peddlers across the river to the Old Citadel a walled part of town enclosing the older bits http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-454795.html This morning we left Hoi An and took a short bus ride to Hue on the northcentral coast. We walked to the Citadel which is the big thing to see there. It's an old city that a king built surrounded by a moat and a brick wall. It's massive inside. In the middle there is another city called the Imperial City or Forbidden City with its own moat and wall. this was the place for the king and his fam http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-448971.html Colourless Hue 1617 We left Hanoi in the evening of Day 16 to board the overnight sleeper train to Hue. The train was different from the one that we took in Thailand itrsquos wasnrsquot one big communal sleeper like before this time we had a four berth compartment. It wasnrsquot as comfortable or a clean as the Thai train but it was better as it was compartmentalised and felt more secur http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-448023.html Great plans to wake up early to make it to Cau Dai beach...as all plans do we need the sleep. Morning agenda is to get the dresses and look around in the market a bit. I love my dresses Tupur not so much. We shop around and look around a little bit and then head for the hotel to pack up and check out. The bus is supposed to pick us up from the hotel at 1.45 and Tupur gets a quick pedicure from n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-447399.html Dimanche 18 octobre 6h du matin il pleut on part en autobus voir la zone demillitarisee. Ils nous ont fait attendre en face d'un autre hotel 30 min. pour prendre deux autres touristes. Enfin on part pour deux heures de route avant de s'arreter dejeuner dans un resto a la croisee de deux autoroutes. On se dirige ensuite sur l'une d'elles ou on nous montre une montagne au loin la rock pil http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-446879.html Salut ca fait deja quelques jours quon a requitte Hanoi ou on avait du refaire un crochet pour aller voir la pagode aux parfums. Un peu a contrecoeur quon y etait retournes mais on dirait que dans le nord du Vietnam tous les chemins menent a Hanoi. Alors une fois vue la fameuse pagode signalee sur toutes les cartes dasie du sudest puisque cest un lieu de pelerinage bouddhiste important o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-445779.html Chris came back from work early to say goodbye and off we went in a cab to where we get our sleeper bus from. After a small worry that the first bus we got on was the sleeper bus we ended up getting on the correct bus. We were stuck at the back and on the top bunk. We were told it was about 2.5m beds to sleep more like 2.5 feet. The Pygmy Vietnamese had the best beds on the bottom bunk wherea http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-445153.html After a 15 hour journey on the lovely sleeper bus from Hanoi note the sarcasm these sleeper buses are not lovely your feet lay in a enclosed box reminiscent of a coffin and if you are taller than 5 foot its rather uncomfortable if you are a large chap chapess you will discover that it is rather narrow T opts for the centre aisle as the window seats offer a view but only the movement of one a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-444825.html I'm just going to repeat again in case you didn't spot it in the last blog that we are all fine and have not been on a glass bottomed boat.It was about a four hour bus ride to Hue and once we arrived we went for lunch. Following this we got in a taxi and a local guide took us for a tour of the Citadel and the Forbidden City. It was very beautiful despite the weather continuing to be drizzly. The t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-440693.html From the charming Hoi An we continued on to Hue by sleeper bus. Sometimes the sleeper busses were good other times they were not. They varied in quality and the ride depended on the driver. Always they were an experience to remember. Sometimes the driver would stop at midnight for ldquodinnerrdquo if that was when the bus passed the roadside restaurant that paid him a commission. On the tr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-436632.html Hello Friends and Family I am back on the road travelling again. This time with my father. We are exploring Vietnam Cambodia and Thailand. We arrived in Hanoi in Northern Vietnam on September 6. Hanoi is a busy city with motoscooters everywhere. We visited the local templs the Temple of Literature and the Masoleum of Ho Chi Minh then we escaped out to the coast to Halong Bay. We spent two n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-435799.html August 19 Hoi An VietnamAugust 20 Hoi An VietnamAugust 21 Hue VietnamAugust 22 Hue DMZ VietnamAugust 23 Hue VietnamNow in Hue. Storm of a blog coming up here as I gotta leave to catch a bus in 10 mins 15 hours in length up to Hanoi but figured if I don't write some shit here now I'll end up having to back track like 10 days and oh lordy what a pain would that beOk since last http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-430390.html After a night bus ride with the secretive and seedy driver and his attendant to Hu we were literally dumped off at a small hotel across from the local travel agent taking care of the HanoiHu leg and arranging the transfers to Hoi An I was so tired from lack of sleep all I wanted to do was sleep on the sidewalk in front of the agency. There was however a local with a motorbike who apparent http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-429739.html We left for Ha Long Bay with an organised trip as that seemed the easiestquickest way to do it Halong City didn't seem to offer much as a way of a visit of itself. Our minivan was pretty comfortable and the trip was going well out of Hanoi and into the Vietnamese countryside until the two women in the back of the van decided to talk about their love lives and boy did they talk. For most pro http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-429682.html It took us only 4 hours to reach Hue from Hoi An once there we found ourselves in a nice little hotel where we managed to get a great room right on the top floor so had a savage view of the city. We planned to stay here only 3 nights before moving onwards and upwards to Hanoi.So after our first night we decided to explore the Citadel. We hired bikes and set off which was a little nerve wrackin http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-425532.html Saletti alle zusammenvielen dank fr eure netten kommentare. ich war schon ziemlich enttuscht darber dass es mit meinem job nicht geklappt hat und habe ein bisschen an mir gezweifelt. doch ich bin immer wieder zu dem entschluss gekommen dass ich das richtige gemacht habe. ich denke das problem war dass ich mir keine klaren vorstellungen gemacht hab von dem was ich dort eigentlich machen mc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-424492.html On the trip from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City still known as Saigon by the locals I traveled by open bus ticket. That means I buy a 1 way ticket from Hanoi to HCMC for 35 but I have the freedom to get off the bus at any drop off point of my chosing and stay as long as I like within a 30 day period. I just have to call my travel agent 24 hours ahead of time to reserve a seat and let know http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-423407.html Before we started the trip I bought a guide book that highly recommended a tour company for the DMZ because the tour guide was a former ARVN solider. We were lucky enough to be able to book a tour with that company at the last minute. This guy Jose had quite the stories of his life as a whole and not just from the war. Jose introduced himself with what he did during the war and made sure to i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-422910.html Hi allFirstly we would like to point out to everyone that we added some photos on our previous blog so you should check them outWe left Hoi An with our tailored garments and full to the brim with French pastries to head to Hue where we plan to see some ancient tombs and citadels.Since our last post we pretty much haven't done much The last few days have been spent purely relaxing on the beach http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-422580.html 1. Tag Hue 20.6.2009Heute Morgen kamen wir in der ehemaligen Hauptstadt an. Wir waren froh die fast 14 stndige Busfahrt berstanden zu haben. Mde und mit schmerzenden Gliedern fanden wir bald ein billiges und sauberes Hotel. Wir wollten uns eigentlich nur kurz hinlegen sind jedoch erst um 15 Uhr wieder aufgewacht. Voll getankt mit neuer Energie haben wir die Gegend erkundigt. Hue scheint eine k http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Hue/blog-422270.html