Tours › Hue Imperial City
Over the Hai Van Pass to the Citadel, Thien Mu Pagoda and the mosaic tomb of Khai Dinh.
Hue was the capital of Vietnam for a century and a half, and it feels nothing like Da Nang — slower, more formal, and a little melancholy. The Nguyen emperors built a walled city here, ruled from it, and were buried in extraordinary tombs in the hills around it.
We drive up over the Hai Van Pass in the morning so the journey is part of the day rather than something to endure, and come back through the tunnel when everyone is tired.
This is a full day with a lot of walking. If you would rather see two places properly than four in a hurry, say so and that is what we will do.
This is how the day usually runs. Nothing is fixed — if you want longer somewhere, or you'd rather skip a stop entirely, just say so on the day.
Early start, because we are going the beautiful way rather than the fast way.
Twenty-one kilometres of coastal switchbacks with stops at the summit gate and the Lang Co viewpoint. About two and a half hours to Hue this way, and worth every minute.
200,000₫ for adults, 40,000₫ for children, open 07:00–18:00. In through the Ngo Mon gate, past the nine holy cannons, into Thai Hoa palace where thirteen emperors were crowned — and then out into the Forbidden Purple City, flattened in the fighting of 1968 and slowly, carefully being rebuilt.
Free, and the most photographed building in Hue: the seven-storey Phuoc Duyen tower above the Perfume River. Behind it, in a garage, sits the pale blue Austin that drove the monk Thich Quang Duc to Saigon in 1963.
The royal kitchen made small, elaborate dishes for a bored emperor and the city still eats that way — banh beo, banh loc, banh khoai — plus bun bo Hue, the spicy beef noodle soup this city gave the country.
150,000₫. Blackened concrete and dragons on the outside, and then you step in and the entire interior is glass and porcelain mosaic, eleven years in the making. It is the strangest and best thing in Hue.
A dragon boat on the river if you have the energy, or the market if you would rather shop. Or coffee, honestly, by this point.
The fast way home, about two hours, with everybody asleep by Lang Co.
Back at your hotel in Da Nang.
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