Hue - for a day

Hue is also a world heritage town but we were only there for an afternoon and a night so not much to report. It is situated a bit further up the coast than Hoi An, inland a bit on a river. It was roasting when we arrived and so checked into a hotel right where the bus dropped us and headed into town.

The citadel - OK for a while but frankly it's too hot for culture!

There is an old citadel that we wanted to visit and made our way there through the incredibly hot street. It was quite interesting but much of it had been bombed in the Vietnam/American War and although it was "undergoing restoration" much of it was left to your imagination - quite literally as there weren't even any maps or pamphlets to tell you what might/should have been there. In any case after an hour of that we couldn't take any more culture - we were still a bit zapped from all the tailoring in Hoi An - so found a cafe with yummy mango shakes and a pool table and wiled away the afternoon there.

We found a nice restaurant for dinner and had an early night as we'd decided to get a flight up to Hanoi - to save both time and effort - an had to be up at 6am to get a bus to the airport.