Hue (pronounced Way (i think)) was another great little town. I throughly enjoyed our time there. One day was probably enough, the tour got this one right.
So we left Hoi An at &:30 am, some of my super awesome new friends carried my back pack as we walked to the bus stop, my burnt back waas very happy to be friends with them...
Basically after a few long hours on the bus, we got to Hue, we had an hour and 1/2 before our super awesome afternoon. Karen and I ventured to find food across the street, enjoying fruit shakes and good food. We talked with a few other tour members, and then prepared for quite the enjoyable afternoon.
It started at 2, with a 1/2 hour cyclos ride. Cyclos (pronounced sick-los) have a man sitting on a bicycle seat in the back, and basically a bucket for one (or 2 small people) to sit in, in the front. We were driven naround the streets and sights of Hue in these very relaxing vehicles. The only thing that kept me from napping on this trek, was that motorbikes and busses were also sharing the same road, and i feared a little bit for my life.
After the cyclos rides were done, we went inside the Emperors' temple of Hue. It was pretty interesting, however, at this point I might have been getting sick of seeing temples.... that sounds bad, but more or less that was the consensus among the group. It was pretty, and the local tour guide had good information.
Next we took a bus to the 7 storied Thien Pagoda. The whole area was gorgeous, there were monks living there, and we arrived during a pray and chanting session. That was pretty neat to experience. I watched for a few moments, but then walked around the whole area to take it all in.
To get back to the hotel we took a Dragon Boat! ...which is not very exciting at all. It was pretty on the outside, but slow and cold to get back to the hotel. I'm glad though that we were able to drift down the Perfume River... which lets down it's namesake, and smells like fish rather than Perfume.
Tara organized a good dinner. We went to a restaurant that originally was opened by a deaf mute person. That alone is cool, but what was fun about this place, was, we were able to write on the walls. There were a few bars in Cambodia that we were able to write on the walls, but that was a bar, and some people were just drunken messes. This place however, all of the other South East Asia tour guides take their groups to the place. We saw Tara's other groups writings on the wall, and we saw her best friends groups writings on the walls. There were pictures, and love notes and it was just fun to see the colors. The food was good too, that was a plus... and dessert was amazing. Pineapple crepes with chocolate syrup. Yummy night.
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