Day 11 - Hue
Hue was the ancient capital. It is famous for The Citadel and the Perfume River. We took a boat cruise up the river on a dragon boat and saw an historic pagoda, visited The Citadel and had a vegetarian lunch at a monastary populated only by female monks. Dinner was at the home of a princess.
The hotel was designed by the same man as the Imperial King's palace
The dragonboat
A floating village on the Perfume River
Since this was about half way through the trip, we had our laundry done
This pagoda was built about 400 years ago
The Perfume River
The Citadel was built by the ancient kings.
It suffered major damage during "The American War"
The monks served us lunch and sang some songs
The lunch was strictly vegetarian and delicious
In the garden
Here the local women are making incense sticks and straw hats
These are the raw bamboo sticks
You can see the design inside the layers of the straw
This monk founded an orphanage about 20 years ago and has about 200 children aged 6 months to 19 years old.
This is the garden of the princess
The dining area
The family alter
Our host showed us ancient toothpicks
Dinner was really special
Our hostess
