The way of Hue

Dec 19

We got picked up at 6:00 a.m. to go to the airport. Our flight to Hue was short, a little over an hour. It was cold and overcast here. We took it slow today since we had run ourselves ragged the day before and Tricia was coming down with a cold. We walked to a nearby veggie restaurant for lunch then came back to the room and rested. That night we ate near the hotel at an Italian restaurant.

Dec 20

We walked to the Citadel, about 30 minutes from our hotel. It was
built in 1804-33. The walls surrounding it are two meters thick and the walls are 10 km long. The moat is 90 meters across and 4 meters deep.

Emperors lived in a complex within the citadel. Part of this area was known as the Forbidden Purple City. The complex is huge. Much of it was destroyed during the French and American Wars. In the Imperial enclosure only 20 of the original 148 buildings survive although reconstruction is on going. Because I developed a cold we came back to the hotel afterward and I  slept and rested the rest of the day.

 

 

Dec 21

I felt better today so we walked to the Ho Chi Minh Museum only to be told it was closing for lunch.
This was a long walk so by the time we got back to the hotel I
needed a rest. I slept again until lunchtime while Ron went to the local market to take pictures.

When he returned we found the third best restaurant in town just a couple of blocks away. Both of us had pho for lunch and we were told that the restaurant had only opened five months ago.