After a gruelling overnight bus from Hanoi, 13 hours (in a bus that was DEFINATELY not the one on the picture that we signed up for), we (sleepily) arrived in Hue. Unfortunately we were fairly useless with taking our camera with us in Hue… so not many sightseeing photos! We took a cyclo around the citadel, this was previously the capital with a ten kilometre fence perimeter. It is also a place where thousands of Vietnamese people have died during the French and American invasions.
An American man we met randomly in a café told us an amazing story of how an older Vietnamese lady saved his life during the Vietnam war by hiding him and three other engineers in a secret tunnel in the ricepaddies and passing them food and water for four days before showing them the way back to the US camp (past the VC). For the past eight years he has lived in Vietnam six months of each year, teaching English to the locals for free.
Our last night in Hue was soured when two guys unsuccessfully and very obviously tried to pickpocket Jay’s wallet while one of the guys picked him.
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