Forbidden Purple City

Hastily Seeing Hue

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April 13th 2008
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 ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » North Central Coast » Thua Thien - Huế » Hué

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more