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Visiting Hue old city centre by bike really is a great (& fast) way to get a good feel of the place. The citadel area of Hue is basically a part of town inside some really big walls from some old emperor fort. About 9 bridges & gates (1 car wide only) to get in & out and most are 1-way only...didn't always keep to these rules on the bike, most bikes/cyclo's didn't seem to care either.
Inside the citadel is...another citadel (imperial city) with emperor buildings...stuf...& imagine...another citadel inside the citadel inside the citadel! This last one is the Purple City which previously only had concubins, the emperor & balless dudes. Wow, party time. All by all it's a nice place (quite) to walk around, take some pictures & gaze at the buildings. After the 'cultural' part of the visit, some strolling through backstreets. Tasty streetfood lunch (minced beef noodle soup with hardboiled bird eggs) for the remarkable low price of 5000d/plate :-o It is one of the few times we got the 'real' price, not the 'white-guy' price (which is somewhere between 2x to 10x the real price) & the more funny cause some other viet customer eating there was telling the noodle lady she should have charged us 20.000 for the food. Real price for a white guy?? That's just wrong! ;-)
Tomorrow we head out to the outskirts of Hue to see some pagodes etc along the perfume river. Different, but same-same.
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Visiting Hue old city centre by bike really is a great (& fast) way to get a good feel of the place. The citadel area of Hue is basically a part of town inside some really big walls from some old emperor fort. About 9 bridges & gates (1 car wide only) to get in & out and most are 1-way only...didn't always keep to these rules on the bike, most bikes/cyclo's didn't seem to care either.Inside the citadel is...another citadel (imperial city) with emperor buildings...stuf...& imagine...another citadel inside the citadel inside the citadel! This last one is the Purple City which previously only had concubins, the emperor & balless dudes. Wow, party time. All by all it's a nice place (quite) to walk around, take some pictures & gaze at the buildings. After the 'cultural' part of the visit, some strolling through backstreets. Tasty streetfood lunch (minced beef noodle soup with hardboiled bird eggs) for the remarkable low price of 5000d/plate :-o It is one of the few times we got the 'real' price, not the 'white-guy' price (which is somewhere between 2x to 10x the real price) & the more funny cause some other viet customer eating there was telling the noodle lady she should have charged us 20.000 for the food. Real price for a white guy?? That's just wrong! ;-)
Tomorrow we head out to the outskirts of Hue to see some pagodes etc along the perfume river. Different, but same-same.
heel mooi en authentisch vind ik. wel wat kouder zo te zien aan jullie lange broeken en vestjes;
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same-same ?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHet fietsen doet jullie goed zo te zien, ik hoor dat de kilo's er af vliegen.
kus knuf mams Mieke
Same-same zeggen de aziaten hier vaak mamsie. Dat is eigenlijk gewoon hetzelfde als "same" of dus in het nederlands "hetzelfde" zeggen. Om de een of andere reden zeggen ze dat in alle landen dat we nu geweest zijn gewoon twee keer.
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