My first
plan was to go to Sapa, a city in the north of Vietnam. But in order to get
there you need to take a 8-10 hour bus journey. But I thought that I will lose
too much of time when I go there as I only had 10 days in Vietnam. After a
short look I found flights to Hue which had a decent price, and I booked the
flight. So I flew on Saturday afternoon to Hue and stayed there until Monday
evening. Hue as a city is nothing special and there it has not so much to see,
but the Imperial City is on the other side of the River. The Imperial City is
quite big and it has some beautiful places, to get inside you have to pay an
entry fee of 105’000 VND (around 5 USD).
After Hue I
spend one night in Hanoi before going for a two day trip to Halong Bay. I
booked a tour at a tour operator. To get to the Bay takes around 3 hours by bus
and then there are the boats waiting. Unfortunately the weather was cloudy all
the time. But Halong Bay was really nice, in the tour we visited a cave, a
beach (or you could go to climb a hill), an oyster farm and you had the chance
to go kayaking. In the two day tour we
were back at the harbour at 1 pm and were back in Hanoi around 4.30 pm. There
are one day tours as well which leave Hanoi around 8 am and return at 7 pm, if
you don’t have the time for more days I would definitely go for a day trip (to
be honest I am not sure if you really see that much more on a two day tour).
After the
tour I spend one night in Hanoi before flying back to Taipei on Thursday
morning. Vietnam had some really beautiful places unfortunately my 10 days were
not enough to see everything. But Vietnam will stay on my list and I will have
to go back some day to see other places as well.
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| On the way to Hue |
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| A gate to the Imperial City |
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| Flagtower of Imperial City Huế |
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| Flowers |
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| Some houses |
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| Railway track |
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| Thien Mu Pagoda |
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| At the Thien Mu Pagoda |
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| An old car |
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| Thien Mu Pagoda |
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| Can't remember the name of this place |
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| Diem Phung Thi's Art Exhibition House |
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| Sunset |
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| A gate to the Imperial City |
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| Truong Tien Bridge |
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| Truong Tien Bridge |
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| Gate to the Imperial Enclosure |
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| Thái Hòa Palace |
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| A golden Dragon |
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| Imperial City |
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| Imperial City |
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| Imperial City |
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| Imperial City |
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| Imperial City |
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| Flower |
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| Imperial City |
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| Flower |
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| Ruins |
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| Dragon |
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| Duyet Thi Royal Theater |
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| Imperial City |
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| Can't remember where this place was but somewhere in the city |
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| The plane back to Hanoi |
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| Hạ Long Bay |
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| A boat |
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| Thien Cung grotto |
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| Hạ Long Bay |
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| Hạ Long Bay |
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| Hạ Long Bay |
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| Hạ Long Bay |
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| Beach |
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| Cruising ships |
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| Oyster farm |
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| Ha Long Bay |
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| Hanoi Opera House |
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| Turtle Tower |
