We took the bus to Hue early morning and stopped for fried rice and pork and noodles and pork for breakfast along the way. Might have been what made me poorly later on! The food places are a bit gross here, so unclean. Anyway, we got to Hue and 12:30 and were accosted by travel agents, cyclo drivers, taxi drivers and hotel people, some even before we could get off the bus.
Jenni noticed her sandal was coming apart already – not even worn for one day! I emailed the shoe shop but the email did not work, of course! So I emailed the tailor shop... Who knows what will happen.
Anyway, I opted to go into a hotel to check out what to see in Hue, that we could fit in. I arranged for a “tour” to the citadel so we could ditch our bags at the hotel and got a taxi to the train station sorted. We headed to the Citadel and were dropped off – that was the tour! The Citadel, or imperial palace was a bit run down, but we had a good nosey round. There were nice moats and ponds with beautiful water lilies floating about and some interesting rooms and ruins. They were restoring the place bit by bit and it needed it as it had become very run down, but it could be a very beautiful place.
After the Citadel, we headed to the train station and got our train to Hanoi. In our carriage were a family of 5 people (I think) including a cute little girl – Twi Ling! She was adorable. So we chatted in broken english and vietnamese, but it was nice to try! Jenni and I played cards and I wrote up some diary. This train was nowhere near as comfortable as the previous one, but that's how it goes I guess.
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