The graves of Hue

After two long days of travel we arrived in Hue in the middle of the night in heavy rain. Luckily the welcome to the lovely Jade Hotel was much more welcoming. Hue it turned out has a special micro clima dominated by heavy rain. The next two days it started raining exactly 10 min to 1 pm. The first day it was only short and we could simply wait until it stopped the second day it was raining dogs for hours. Luckily cabs are quite cheap in Vietnam.

Being on watch in front of Khải Ä�ịnh tomb. They remember somehow at the terracotta warriors in Xian.

Besides the very wet weather conditions Hue is known for its high number richly lay out royal tombs. When kings became a mainly decorative function during French colonial ruling many of them got bored and they started creating enormous tombs for themselves. We visited two and were impressed by their beautiful way of using recycled material.

The Decoration in the Khải Ä�ịnh tomb reuses all kind of ceramic and glass to create beautiful wall pictures ….

… and typical dragon layouts.

The Minh Mạng tomb is impressing in a more quitter and spacious green way.

And if you need some time off the chaotic and noisy street life and ever shouting touts visit the forbidden purple city. Though only fractional restored after two wars it’s very lovely and quite.

The restored part of the forbidden city contrast significantly with the grey overgrown stones left over from two wars.

And on top of all this the food in this area is a lot spicier. 🙂

Preparation of a typical spicy noodle soup of this area. The dough is simply chopped from a piece of plastic tube into the boiling water.

I guess we will never escape Carlsberg. Local vietnamese beer brewed by danish technology.

Steffi and Tom on the Road

With Tommy traveling in the trains of this World.

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