Hue

After Hanoi and Ha Long Bay Tina and I have taken a flight and travelled about 600km further south to Hue - a city with a lovely citadel. We stayed in the Saigon Morin Hotel - a beautyful Hotel with colonial french architecture in the heart of the city. All the hotels we stayed in so far we found on tripadvisor.com, which is a really cool site if you travel, because it gives you traveller's ratings and opinions about hotels etc.
 
From Hue we took a train further south to Danang - a ride of about 3 hours that cost us 2 USDs (and that price included lunch and water on the train ;) ... Funny thing was we met this nice Vietnamese guy on the train who works with Swiss travel agencies in St. Gallen - he wore a Swiss T-shirt and was really proud and happy to meet somebody from Switzerland. Even funnier thing was that he had a big Swiss German accent talking English ... Arriving in Danang he arranged an extremely cheap taxi for us to go to Hoi An for 120000 dong (about 6 USDs) ... for a taxi ride more than 1 hour away ... Here in Hoi An we stay in one of the nicest Hotel i probably ever stayed in - it's called Ha An Hotel and it beats every top end hotel in friendlyness and attention to detail they put...it is simply amazing ... the rooms look so nice (I will need to put pictures) ... and for example this afternoon they realised we went to the room for a sleep and out of the blue they brought us fresh tea and fruit ... I definitely believe tourism will have a big future in Vietnam.
 
Ciao ciao
Peter