Imperial-Hotel

1st May 2010 Today was our last day in Hue before our five day motorbike tour into the mountains tomorrow, so we decided to take it easy, especially because the humidity was very high. We started the day by walking around the Citadel, but due to the high humidity this was a very hot undertaking. We passed an interestingly named clothes shop before heading back towards the flag tower where we found a display of Reunification hardware which we hadn’t seen the other day. The Imperial Enclosure which we had visited two days ago was heaving with Vietnamese and there were people everywhere so we soon headed back to the hotel for some peace and quiet and lovely air conditioning. ...

29th April 2010 Our first job today was to contact Hue Riders. These are the local version of the Easy Riders we used in Dalat a few weeks ago to do a day tour into the countryside. This time we’re keen to travel down the coast but this time going over the Hai Van pass that we came under in the tunnel yesterday. Viewers of Top Gear may recall this pass from the Top Gear in Vietnam episode they did a couple of years ago. We were also interested in continuing our journey by bike on down to Nha Trang, but we didn’t really know how long it would take or what our options are. A quick phone call to a helpful Australian lady resulted in a Hue Rider arriving at our hotel some ten minutes later. ...