HUE CITADEL KY SU (1)

Dear ba kon

Nhu thong le, cuoi tuan ban Viet lai len duong discover mien Trung, lan nay la Hue Citadel.

9h sang T6, 21/09: khoi hanh di Hue…110km…through one tunnel and 2 mountain passes by motorbike…alone…J

Here are some pics on the way:

HAI VAN tunnel (rather long and rather boring, heheJ)

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12:00am: arrived at HUE

First impression??? Impressed (sure) and…disappointed (what???)

coz Hue is amazingly beautiful but also being interfered too much by modernization day after day, bit by bit…and unfortunately, they go along with each other.

Here are some instances:

TU CAM THANH

à I’m so impressed by how big it is how ancient it still is…But then, it is surrounded by too many shops and restaurants. The surrounding streets also allow motobikes to run through… At night, the view is absolutely dark à nothing to enjoy!!!

HUONG RIVER

à so green and so peaceful, but since the day they built up DAP DA (STONE BARRAGE) à The rest of it is stucked by rubbish and stuff…

DAN NAM GIAO

à A beautiful place but have been destroyed by the gov at that time to build a patriotic martyr’s cemetery???

BEN NGU

à used to be a crowded wet market in the ancient time, now, it’s still a market but near a dirty river with bunches of rubbishL.

Ok, that’s all for the first afternoon I stayed with Hue, I enjoyed it so far, esp, these pics which I took at 5pm when the HUE girl-students got out of QUOC HOC HUE high school (we all know that HUE is famous for its charming girls and yes, that’s what I can guarantee, heheJ)]

In the evening, I enjoyed Com chay at Bo De Quan (actually, it’s MI XAO DON U à delicious enoughJ) and spent one hour and a half at SERENADE live music bar à the singers here are not worse than singers in Saigon at all, moreover, the drink price is not so expensive as in Saigon. J

The next morning I woke up soon enough to go to THUAN AN beach.

Unfortunately, the sea is so rough today (never did I see such a rough sea like this,so scared) then, there’ s no one there except me and…cua cong ( hehe, I enjoyed staying still and watched them running out of the holesJ)

. On the way back, I went around “THON” VI DA à no actually, there’s no more things can be called VI DA THON due to the modernization (damn it!!), except for the coffee shop VI DA XUA J

Here is the specialty drink of it: COFFEE VI DA XUA (with coffee + ice + milk + sugar + … rice wine??) à anyway it tastes very good esp. when u stayed alone J.

So that’s all up to now at the time I’m staying in this cyber net to write this blog while it’s raining like cats and dogs outside (damn it, the rain destroyed all the plans I set up for this morning, but anyway, now I know why do they call “Rain in Hue can destroy soil as well as sky” (mua thoi troi thoi dat in Vietnamese,heheJ ). See ya in next blog:)

Mưa Trên Phố Huế Sáng tác: Minh Kỳ - Thể hiện: Vân Khánh