Tues 28th Oct A quiet day today after the full day tour the previous day. After breakfast we headed around to the Main Street and hired cyclo drivers to take us around the city for an hour. That was quite relaxing but got very hot by the time we finished. When we got off it was too early for lunch so we decided to have a massage but after failing to find the one I found in Trip advisor we just went into the first one we found. It cost 200,000 dong and was pret...

Early start for a full day tour of Hue and some of the key highlights of the town. The first stop was at Mang Ma tomb - one of the 3 Emperor's tombs we were to visit on the tour. Quite a large area with different temples on the grounds . The actual burial place has been lost as its on the mountain behind a locked wall. Still quite a nice area that they explained was good feng shui with the lakes and mountain. Our 2nd stop was for the emperor Khe Dinh. This tom...

Got woken up at about 5 this morning by Pat telling me the power was off and that there was an alarm going off in the building. She was worried there was a fire. But if a concern but the power came back on and the alarm stopped so must have been ok. We get picked up by our driver from Hue just before 8am and started our trip to Hue up over the Hai Van pass which is a mountainous winding road. They have built a tunnel which has cut the time off the trip a bit but...