Photo Tour of Historic Hue

See the Citadel, tombs, and more of historic Hue in this photo tour.

 

Lina posing with the running woman statue

 

Reflections from a food stall… Vietnamese life. Motorbikes. Beautiful Architecture.

 

Reflections of the Citadel in Hue on a cloudy day

 

Entrance to the Citadel in Hue

 

 

the Citadel

 

 

 

A horse carriage waiting patiently for clients

 

Entrance to the throne musuem

 

A Chinese dragon. Ball in mouth. Golden retrievers beware!

 

 

This crazy rainstorm created beautiful large circular patterns on the brick

 

grounds of the Forbidden City in the Hue Citadel

 

grounds of the Forbidden City in the Hue Citadel

 

grounds of the Forbidden City in the Hue Citadel

 

an old cannon in the Hue Citadel

 

 

 

 

An art gallery in the citadel's forbidden city

 

a bad drainage system paints a beautiful picture in the Citadel after it rains

 

 

 

Gate to the Forbidden City in the Citadel in Hue

 

Gate to the outside wall of the Citadel in Hue

 

Moat of the Citadel in Hue

 

can't have a Citadel without some tanks?

 

A pickup game of soccer

 

The sign read: "The MIG-21 is a fighting jet-plane of Vietnam military aviation. In the resistance against American imperialists from 1954 to 1975. Vietnam military aviation used this type of jet-plane to shoot down the enemy aircrafts, especially B-52 Fl

 

playing with reflections

 

flag of reflections

 

This guy is fishing in the moat of the Citadel

 

beautiful outer moat of the Citadel

 

Ready to board our dragon boat

 

Interesting man-made flowers spread about the river

 

You know tourists exist in a town when there are swan boats

 

 

 

 

A pokemon cap… the straw inserted to… so many odd things here

 

our bicycles were delivered by cyclo… they tried to charge us extra for that (after we already agreed on price), but we said no.

 

The hills of Hue

 

 

Streets of Hue

 

elaborate tombs on the outskirts of Hue

 

 

some tombs were decorated with china broken into pieces

 

A meditation house on the Tu Duc Tomb grounds

 

 

beautiful roof

 

on the grounds of Tu Duc Tomb

 

 

 

Lina on a throne

 

 

 

my face matches the statue better than Dean's face

 

Lina and her trusty steed

 

 

Inner Gate

 

 

 

Lina meditating at the meditation house on the Tu Duc Tomb grounds

 

Rolling hills beyond Hue

 

 

 

motorbike full of sticks

 

In the middle of the night, workers loaded cases upon cases of Heineken into our big sleeper bus… Even more random was we took some dirt road to get here. Why was all this beer in the middle of no where?

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