Hue

Traveling by motor bike and cyclo is the best way to see Hue. Hue is full of palaces, pagodas, tombs and temples. Like many other cultural spots in Vietnam is it a Unesco World Heritage Spot. We learnt a lot here. We toured the Rice Museum which was very interesting and went on a dragon boat ride on the very picturesque Perfume river. Saw how incense was made as well as conical hats. Conical hats when held against light shows a picture of a landscape.  The woman we saw making the hats only had one hand. We learned that conical hats not only protect the local woman's head in the rain but also sun.  Whiter skin is more desireable and local women take care to keep their skin as light as possible.

The temples are fabulous!!!! Some countries are helping Vietnam restore them but I kinda like the way they look all water stained, adds a mystery to them.

Elephants are sacred in Vietnam, so much so that as late at 1904 they would have Tiger Elephant fights to the death.  But they would declaw and defang the Tiger so the Elephant would win.  Funny on so many of the beer there's a picture of a Tiger. Hmmm.

After a delicious lunch at a monastery we went for a dragon boat ride on the very picturesque Perfume River.