HUE - the Sights Part 2

HUE - the sights ...

I got up went for my morning yoga hours, had a fab breakfast, a swim in the pool, dropped my laundry across the street to get cleaned, read the english Vietnam newspaper ..see what I found

...and then I went into town to see the sights.

HUE used to be the capitol of Vietnam back in the days when the Nguyen emerors used to rule the country.
I hired a really nice cyclo driver to take me around the ciry to the CITADEL and the IMPERIAL ENCLOSURE which is kind of a citadel within a citadel. It was first build in 1804. In front is the big FLAG TOWER. The citadel has several beautiful entrance gates.

Hue was heavily bombed during the war, but they are rebuilding as we speak. My cyclo driver always pointed out destroyed parts witht he comment - Amerincans boom boom!!!

There are not to many tourist here, so walking around was great and very quiet.

The Imperial enclosure contains the Forbidden Purple city, lots of temples, gates, lakes, the hall of the mandarins, the Royal reading room and and and..

Look at him does he not look like Homer Simpson? hihih

Afer a lovely dinner in town, I came back to the hotel and had a great massage...mhhhh..life is so hard ...

Tomorrow I will have to leave HUE. And I will get on a 3 hour bus to Hoi An. See Ya ... XOXO Sabine