Hue Citadel

This morning I took a look round the actual citidel. Most of the royal palaces have been ruined by the war against the French in 1945 when North Vietnam seperated from South Vietnam and became Communist and then the American War in the '60s. But it was quite interesting tp picture what the palaces would have looked like and the government have recieved funding from North Korea to rebuild sections of the palace.

They also had loads of photo displays up which showed how the court was held and it was strange to see that these really ancient traditions were still being upheld in the 1930s.

Nearly got done over by a moped driver this morning who claimed that we'd agreed a higher return price to the Citadel than we actually had. Amazing how you can have an argument with someone even though you don't speak a word of each other's language. I won of course! Although feel a bit guilty now as he probably has a family to feed.

Been really sunny, sticky and hot all the time we've been here but now just starting to rain.

At 3pm we leave Hue to get an overnight train to Hanoi, the capital city. Concerned as Hanoi is currently flooded under a metre and a half of water. This has been going on for a week and the water still hasn't drained so the city is quite inaccessible. Going to Halong Bay on Wednesday but when we return from there, I'm in Hanoi for a whole week when this tour finishes so not sure what to do about the situation yet!