Today we slept in and then did some shopping. The shopping here isn't all that great. I just got some knock off Ray Bands and some snacks for the night train. The street vendors are so persistent in Vietnam. They stalk us and wait for us outside each store we go in to. We left the hotel for the night train at 2pm. The train ride to Hanoi is 14 hours. We thought we would be able to watch a movie, but there was not a tv in our room. So I just organized my pictures...

Today we traveled by bus to Hue. The scenery on the trip was amazing. We were going up and down winding roads on mountains of greenery. We stopped at the top of the highest peak in Vietnam to take in the view and get some good pictures. Once in Hue, we did a motorbike tour. Each of us had our own driver and they took us all around Hue. First we went to the Imperial City. It is the palace where kings and their families lived. The architecture was influenced by an...