Brown of a different Hue

Hue, Vietnam

I somehow managed to lug my pack, day pack, 2 suits, and a bag full of clothes to Hue today. Had enough of the shopping and wanted to fill up on a little culture so i found myself a moto driver who knew the sites.

'Bi' or as I like to call him B-Boy is 64 years old and a great if not eccentric moto guide. Hue used to be the empiral city during the last empirial dynasty and is full of tombs, pagodas and a massive citadel of the forbidden city. Bi also took me to Bunker Hill where there are still 4 American bunkers. He had been wounded by a gun shot from a vietcong soldier during the war and told me a few stories of how it was in the 70's. I don't think i mentioned it in my previous post but I had gone to the war remnants museum in saigon. I was pleasantly surprised by the exhibits and quite touched. Throughout the sentiment was Anti-war and not Anti-America. The statistics and pictures on how America used so many (about 80 million litres) herbicides including Napalm/ Agent Orange/ Dioxin was devastating. The pictures of the children of those exposed to these chemicals made it only too real the affect a war now 30 years old still has today.

Looking forward to tomorrow as its what i've envisioned when i first thought about coming to Vietnam... a bowl of pho made for me fresh while floating through the markets on the Perfume River

Lopa

P.S. A Happy Birthday Shout Out to Roma, Jeet, George, Dhaval Bhai and my aunts Mamta and Kirti!