Moat outside the Citadel, Hue

Hungover in Hue & playing Chicken all the way to Ninh Binh

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September 14th 2008
Hue seems like a pretty average Vietnamese town on arrival, lacking the charm of Hoi An, but hidden in the middle is a walled moat-surrounded citadel, in which is a second mini-citadel, the imperial enclosure of the Nguyen Dynasty. Its a strange sort of place, I thought, but the fact that is was piddling rain may have added to the sense of desolation. We've had some almightly monsoon downpours b ... read more

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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