Hue

10/18/2006


We arrived in Hue this morning after taking another night train from Hanoi. We took a motorbike tour of the city during the afternoon, which was very interesting and fun. Each of us was given a motorbike driver who drove us around in a group. The picture above is of our motorbike posse. The guide was very funny. When he was talking about how hard the Vietnamese women work in the rice fields, he said the American women wouldn't be able to do such hard labor because of too many "cheeseburgers, computer, and Tiger beer." You probably had to be there to understand how funny the guy was. We moto'd all over and saw pagodas, rice fields, a hill with bunkers from the Vietnam War, a monk chanting session, ladies making conical hats and incense, etc. Here is a picture of our group.


At the end it got pretty crazy because there was some heavy traffic. There were motos and cars everywhere, and I saw two people get in a low speed collision. It was quite an interesting and chaotic experience.