Citadel Gate

Hue and the DMZ

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February 3rd 2007
Friday morning we arrived in Hue by plane at about 8.30am after leaving our hotel in Hanoi at 4.45am! Because of our short time in Hue we had to make the most of it and we went straight out to the Citadel on foot. The Citadel is an enormous square built in 1804 and surrounded by 10km's of walls, 4 metres high and 2 metres thick and surrounded by a 30 metre wide moat. Within the Citadel is another ... 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