Hue is in the middle of the country and was the ancient capital until 1945. The emperor made this as the capital simply because it was right in the middle and made it easy for him to govern.
Hue has many interesting monuments the most important being The Citadel, the forbidden city and many tombs of the emperors. The tombs interestingly were made whilst the emperor`s were alive and oversaw the construction.
During the Viet Nam war the Viet Cong used the cultural sites as a hiding place thinking the Americans will not bomb such an important site, however the Americans did bomb it and there was a huge amount of house to house fighting which destroyed many important sites.
Hue is quite a relaxing city without the hustle and bustle of Hanoi. Spent two days here taking in the various sites. Again a welcome in all the hotels we stayed has been exceptionally good. Also now we are getting temple and pagoda fatigue. In the last few days we have seen so many of them and there are few more to see in the next few days.
gateway to one of the tombs
emperors rest house
tomb of the 18th century emperor
Colourful burning sticks for sale
My "son Ruins" doe's look fasinating, is that what it is really called? I must say Pravin you have to write a book on your travels when you return home, you are getting very good at this, & my Sis too
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