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The journey to Hue should have been an overnight sleeper, but due to sever flooding the train was delayed till the next day and so we had the rare advantage of making the trip in day-light.
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Mountain
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Kim, George and Sarah in train
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Bullock plough
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For our first full day in Hue we took a trip by dragon boat, down the ?. The river was still high and the boat only just fitted under the bridge, even with the sun roof removed.
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Boat like ours
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Squeeze under bridge
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Boats
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Our first port of call was Thien Mu Pagoda, which was in a marvelous setting.
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Thien Mu Pagoda
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Bell at Thien Mu Pagoda
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Garden at Thien Mu Pagoda
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Back on the boat again to continue on to the Tomb of Tu Duc
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Boats
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Group in rain
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Making inscent sticks
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Tomb of Tu Duc Garden
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In heavy rain we visited the Tomb of Tu Duc
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Tomb of Tu Duc, building
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Tomb of Tu Duc, rain
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Di in rain
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Tomb of Tu Duc, fisherman
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Group on cyclos
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To get back to town we had a cyclo each. Although it was about a 5 miles return journey, it was fortunate that it was mostly down hill.
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After lunch at ? We visited the Purple Palace, an extensive complex, used by the Vietcong during the war and subsequently a large portion of which had been flatten by American bombing.
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Purple Palace Grounds
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Purple Palace Grounds
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Purple Palace Grounds
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Purple Palace Fish
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Market
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Returned to the hotel via town
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Promanade
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Builder!
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Health and safety on building sites is a little lax. Here two men climbed up each gable end of a house carrying one end of a beam. Being only single brick width there was nothing stopping the gable from collapsing.
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