The other Hue

Once I passed over a canal that led to the Perfume River, I spied Tu Dam Pagoda. After a month in Vietnam, I was on pagoda overload and with three tourist buses outside, even more so.

Not just banh beo

One of the joys of travelling for me is food, especially in Asia. So while I sat savouring banh beo, another Vietnamese dish, I heard four English girls order chips and cokes. I thought to myself, why are they bothering to leave England if not to try something new?

Hue’s Museum of Antiques

Outside Hue’s walled complex stood a beautiful wooden building that housed silver and bronze ware, document seals, furniture and glassware that was once used within the Imperial City.

Hue’s Imperial City

I crossed over the first moat, then a second with the throngs of tourists into the Purple Forbidden City.