301008 – Hue

301008 – Hue

Train arrival

Bus to hotel

Early check-in

AirCon and chill
Workout and showers

Run into Greg and Alice

Taxis to lunch
Awesome lunch restaurant
Beer-opening
Street-kid art
Pancakes – crispy

Walk to Forbidden City

Moat
Gate house

Coy pond

Throne/audience room

courtyard, icecream

ADVENTURING
Walking past construction zone,
Emperors reading room,
Covered walk-ways,
Raised stages and pagodas
Dragon and Phoenix puppets and medical student selling toothpicks
Tennis Court
Rear expanse of moat and guys fishing
Rear wall and Gatehouse

Walking back and around
Almost heading to exit
Finding the demolished temple complex and walking through
Palace of Queens mother
Complex for Temples for Royals, taking shoes off,

Back to entrance, climb to top of gate-house

Head to Eastern side
Temple with guard trying to get money from me
Have a look through the back of compound and see plant nursery
College of fine-arts

Leave and walk back
Across small bridge, ask for directions, across big bridge
long walk,
get to hotel

chill out in room, get ready for dinner

dinner at DMZ cafe
find out about Bega accommodation via free wifi

leave with Vickie so she can call to change flights
two internet cafes later...
walk back to hotel, vickie uses skype..

chill and journal write.