The bus journey to Hue was blissfully easy, it was only three hours, and so, was a great improvement on the usual 8-12. Our initial impressions of Hue were not as we had expected them to be - we had imagined a quiet town, similar to Hoi An, but were greeted with a busy city, almost resembling Saigon. Once the bus had dropped us off, we got our very first cycle taxi (this consists of a single seat mounted on the front of a push bike, and is painfully slow, but wonderfully cheap!) to our hotel. Having arrived in the early evening, we went straight out for a meal, but found the city to be plunged into darkness, as there had been a power cut. Therefore we enjoyed our first meal by candlelight and then made
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