HUE
Hue is the historical capital of Vietnam. Its right on the river, dominated by the old city known as the Citadel. The Citadel is fortified by surrounding walls and it spreads across more than 5km squared. Inside of the imperial city lie the remains of the purple forbidden city, which was reserved for the private life of the Nguyem emperor and his family.
For us, Hue was a more of a stop over so we had about 5 rushed hours to see the Citadel. Parts of it were beautiful and majestic, it was easy to picture royalty walking around the gardens; others were too beaten and in ruins to truly get a sense of what had been there. Their plan is to restore the whole place back to what it was, but im sure this will take more than a few years.
HANOI
Our fist day in Hanoi was hot, really really hot and humid. Our main purpose was to find a tour company to be able to do an overnight trip to Halong Bay. Other than that all we did was force ourselves to walk around the city, after all, every captial city is at least worth a browse around ;). It was too hot to enjoy it though... im pretty sure my favourite part of the day was walking into a store that had AC... im horrible i know....The city was nice, with parks, markets and lots of nice restaurants. But we only had a small glimpse of it as we booked an overnight boat tour for the next day to Halong Bay.
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