We arrived in Hue very early in the morning after catching the night bus. This was an interesting journey. We managed to get like a 3 bed bunker at the back, luckily. Kirstie slept soundly all the way through of course, Natalie slept ok but kept sliding down to the bottom of her sleeper chair and squishing herself and I barely slept at all. I must of tried a million different positions and it just wasn't happening. The bus driver kept beeping his horn all the time and breaking harshly and this dude in front of us was snoring!!
Hue was a much bigger city than I first anticipated and it was really nice. We stayed at Tigon Hostel in a 3 bed private room which was actually more like a hotel so that was a nice surprise. We hired a private car for the day to take us on our self made tombs and dunes tour. We drove along the coastal road and saw the Tam Gian-Cau Hai Lagoon, opulent graves and family temples, most the final resting place of Viet Kieu, Phu dien- a small Cham temple half buried in a sand dunes. Then we finished at a private beach bar and resort where we spent the rest of the day relaxing on a deserted beach drinking cocktails and playing in the waves whilst topping up our tan.

The nighttime was spent at a lovely restaurant and a bar where we played pool, a bar where we were the only westerners and a club called Brown Eyes where we got to dance the night away and party with some crazy local dancers! We couldn't keep up haha. I went home early and Nat and Kirstie stayed out for a bit and went to a brand new club that had just opened. Here's the shocker.... Natalie got the party started and was first on the dance floor... You go girl!
The next morning we went to see the imperial enclosure in the citadel which is Hue's top attraction. The Imperial Enclosure is a citadel-within-a-citadel, housing the emperor’s residence, temples and palaces and the main buildings of state within 6m-high, 2.5km-long walls. We got rode around the outside of the grounds in a bicycle buggy which was a laugh. I know we are lazy but it's next to impossible to walk in the midday heat with 95% humidity.
We had to rush back to our hostel to get our private transfer to Hoi An. Along the way we stopped at Hai Van pass, an approximately 21 km long mountain pass on National Route 1A in Vietnam with beautiful sights of Danang on one side and Hue on the other we got a picture some ice cream and matching necklaces :) Next stop was at a marble shop where they had amazing fountains. If only we could get them in our backpacks! We were meant to climb to the top of this mountain but we were too tired so just took pictures from the bottom. We arrived in Hoi An around 5pm.