Day 107
Hue
In the morning we took our next Open bus, which was not sleeper but it was ok, since we were not going during the night hours. After 3-4 hours of bus trip, we have arrived to Hue and went to the hotel, that Amy and Zoe (English girls we met in Mui Ne and then Da Lat and then Nha Trang :-) booked for us, since they have arrived a day before.
The hotel was really centric and the room was nice, clean and only for 7USD/night (5 euros).
Tonight is Chinese New Year celebration and we were hoping to see at least some fireworks. By the way, Happy New year in Vietnamese would be: ‘Chuc Mung Nam Moi:-D
And below you can meet our new friends - local beers :-D
Aparently, on the bus to Hue, we met again 2 Mexicans and an Argentinian, who in the end joined us and went to the same hotel. The Mexican couple took one room, Mauro (Argentinian guy) shared room with Luciano, we had another room and another room had Zoe and Amy (we ocupied the whole hotel haha)
Ok, what to do during the day? We went for some sightseeing and met local guys with cyclo, one of which was speaking pretty good Spanish and was really funny. We agreed for the price to go to the Citadel, which was some kind of fort inside the city.
Here we go!!
Happy New Year :-)
And we have arrived to the Citadel.
Everybody was getting prepared for the New Year celebration, carrying yellow flowers which are kind of Xmas tree on this night :-D
We went around the Citadel, saw the old wall.
DThen our guides took us to a place (which was the house of one of them), and his wife took out a plastic table with beers, which they sold us for 10,000 dong/each (40 euro cents). The price was ok, but the place was clearly not the "legal" one, besides we paid some of their beers too :-D
This is the funny, Spanish speaking guy :-D
We have head many bad stories about Hue, where taxi drivers and cylco drivers cheat a lot, negotiate one price and tell you the other and have agressive behaviour. We thought it will not happen to us, since we have exprience....
No way, when they got us to the center, they asked for a double price (from what we had negotiated) and were screaming and agressively acting with the hands showing their bad mood, since we said we just pay what we have agreed.
In the end, we paide what we initially agreed, but we had to leave them feeling a bad aftertaste...In the same time, we met Amy and Zoe on the street and went to check out local market.
Going back from the market to the hotel side, crossing the bridge over the river Perfume.
Later we went for a drink and in one hostel/bar met an American girl, Megan, which we met in Bangkok one month ago. Yeah, this is a funny thing, that you always meet same people on the way around South East Asia :-D So here we are: me, Juli, Amy, Zoe, Luciano, Megan, Mauro and the Mexican couple, Anabel and Cheo.
Later we went to the Citadel to see fireworks:DD
There were lots of people waiting, but the whole show took around 15 minutes and then nothing - everybody went home. It seems like Vietnamese celebrate Tet in the family, it is not "party style" celebration.
We went home and had some beers and dinner on the way in a local bar.
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