Hue - The Citadel

TORRENTIAL rain for the last couple of days in Hue...just as well we'd found the ideal hotel for bad weather days - $12 for a big room with hot water, A/C, fridge, cable TV (which we never switched on) and best of all: a computer with fast & free permanent internet connection! A typhoon of some sort hit Danang (about 90km) away and the volume of rain was unbelievable. We walked calf-deep in water from the hotel door :)





I managed to find a gym which kept me amused a couple of mornings...and I went to the Citadel in the afternoon of the first day. Very interesting. Hue is known as the Imperial City of Vietnam - during the Nguyen Dynasty in the 19th century it became home to Vietnam's first united court. There's a 47m high flag tower at the main entrance, and the moat is 23m wide and 4m deep. The entire Citadel is a 10km square with ten gates, and inside lies the remains of the Imperial City. I noticed there was a fitness centre inside here too :)