We woke up this morning to find that the weather forecast was 93F with a 'real feel' of 103F..... Not the kind of weather you want to be walking around in and that is exactly what we had planned as we were visiting the Hue Citadel which is the city's main attraction.
It is a great sprawling complex of temples, pavilions, moats, walls, gates and gardens and we enjoyed walking around for a few hours and taking it all in. Although the Citadel is not that old, construction started in 1805 and completed in 1832, neglect and war has taken its toll. However, much of the citadel has been restored since the city was made a UNESCO site in 1993 and it gave you a good idea of how it was in the days of the emperors.
In the afternoon we travelled to Hue airport for a flight to Ho Chi Minh City. Our original flight had already been pushed back from 4pm to 6pm, and when we arrived at the airport we found it was delayed to 7:40pm so we had 3 hours to wait! The lady that checked us in was telling us something about it being delayed and we couldn't understand her - after asking 3 times we gave up as it was getting embarrassing and just said OK so we don't know what we had agreed to!
At 7:10pm it said that the plane was boarding so we went to the gate and no one was there and the doors were locked. It came to 7:30pm and we were still waiting, and then we saw a plane come in to land, and it was our plane...... The monitor was saying departed by the time they made an announcement that the plane would now be departing at '20' meaning 8pm! When we finally boarded the flight Peter found he had Buddhist monk sitting next to him!
We finally arrived at Ho Chi Minh City Airport around 9:30pm, and by the time we had picked up our luggage, fought the crowds to get a taxi (it was bedlam!) and got driven to our hotel it was around 10:30 - glad to finally be here!
Our hotel seems very nice - I had booked one of the suite rooms so we have a little seating area as well as a bedroom - it has got Peter's seal of approval!
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| Our hotel room |
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| Small seating area in our room |
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