{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-16T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/142\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:09:58","slug":"142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/142\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, Hue"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Hue, I figured I’d make the most of the morning and get a tour of the city by motorcycle. We hit a temple where the monks apparently practice kung fu. My driver\/guide pointed to one monk and told me he was “very good kung fu” – but he had his arm in a cast, so who can say for sure. Next stop was Bunker Hill. The driver jumped on top of one of the bunkers and asked me to join him. I did, and he pointed with great admiration at the view of the river below us. Quite nice. I took a photo, then let him take one of me. The hill was pretty dull – there were some tombstones, but that’s about it. I thought Bunker Hill was in Massachusetts, so who knows.<\/p>\n

We visited a pagoda next. Same as most of the other pagodas I’d seen. I didn’t waste much time there. My driver was waiting outside, not even done his cigarette by the time I returned. I told him to take his time, and checked out some of the seller’s stalls – but the Vietnamese are far too desperate for a sale, all grabbing at me to get me to look at their items (which are the same as everyone elses).<\/p>\n

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Next we visited the citadel, which I’d seen from the from the bus. It could have been Lucca, Italy from the exterior, but inside was a bit different. Much of the citadel had been destroyed by the American’s in the war, so there really wasn’t too much to it. I had an hour to spend there, so I walked around, grabbed a pepsi in honour of Wayne’s birthday, then headed back to the driver.<\/p>\n

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Next stop was Ho Chi Minh’s childhood home, which was definitely not worth the trip. I feigned a bit of interest, but there really wasn’t much to it. I got to see the river he used to swim in though.<\/p>\n

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Back at the bus station I grabbed a half baguette that was so good, I had to order another. The bus to Hoi An was also uneventful – I saw the U.K couple that I’ve been following since Laos, but otherwise there isn’t much to say. In Hoi An I checked out a few hotels, then settled on one next to where I got dropped off. Seemed convenient enough.<\/p>\n

I wandered through the old town, trying to get a feel for the place. There are a bunch of tailors in the area, and you can order a suit in the morning and pick it up in the evening. I’ve lost a little bit of weight in my travels, I think, but I don’t imagine it’ll be too long till I fill out the suit I had made in Shanghai.At night I flipped through the tv to see if there was anything on, but my book was far more appealing. I read for a bit, then slept – looking forward to sleep in an actual bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Hue, I figured I’d make the most of the morning and get a tour of the city by motorcycle. We hit a temple where the monks apparently practice kung fu. My driver\/guide pointed to one monk and told me he was “very good kung fu” – but he had his arm in a cast, … Continue reading “Good Morning, Hue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoi-an","category-hue","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}