06/10/2014 : we woke up at around 8:30 a.m. and taken our delicious and provided lot of Fruits , Drink and main course breakfast. It is really worth for it. Due to The Room is so clean and super polite staff and kindly staff treated us like happy family :)
Look at this ... So many choices we can enjoy .... main course is only one item , drink one cup or you also can order one more cup drink too...fruits and others size order as well...
Finished our breakfast , we shall go to visit some famous place which is : Hue - Citadel - { Unesco World Of Heritage }
we planned to have a walk to the Hue Ancient Town - Citadel to visit the Large City, When we walk on the way , They have some nice scenery , like : Perfume River and some Tourist Boat to passing by to Citadel. Some Local People invited us to have a visit and Fee is From USD3- USD1.00 Per Person , if you interesting to have a try this kind of Boat and enjoy the River Scenery , it will Send you to reach to the Citadel. But we refused their invitation. Due to they need to earn money and they will keep on to offer you the good price. We are under Budget Traveller. So that we want to enjoy the road side scenery , that why we refused their offer.
This is the one Special Boat to send you over the Town....
{ Perfume River & Trang Tien Bridge , at Night time , This is very
Colourful Bridge , due to it will turn on the lighting }
{ Overlooking the Hue City View }
We on the way to the Hue Citadel Road Side Scenery ....
Local People Vietnames Selling the Fish or others seafood...Fresh ....
We enjoyed this moment and keep on to continue our journey untill 10: 01 a.m. , Finally we arrived to Citadel Ancient Town. But Don't be so happy .... Listen what i sharing here later on ....:)
Here is " Citadel Ancient Town " We Finally walked around 60 min only can arrived here. Not bad ....But this is only one of the Gate. we keep on to enter to this Ancient Town..... let go have a look and enjoy the scenery ...
Citadel History :
• Hue Citadel: Searched from Internet as below History :-
Occupying a large, bounded area on the north side
of Perfume River; four citadels were comprised to create the Capital City:
Hoang Thanh (Imperial City) for royal palaces and shrines, Tu
Cam Thanh (Forbidden Purple City) for royal residences, Dai Noi (Inner city)
and Tran Binh Dai, which exclusively ancient architecture. Tourists are
expected to spend at least one day to visit the whole complex. They can also
catch a taxi, hire a bicycle, rent a “xich lo”- Vietnamese cycle if do not feel
like walking around the site.
Before we really don't know this Citadel is really really Big Ancient Town, We insisted to have a walk around this History Town but unfortunately , Oh my God... Suddenly heavy Rain at early morning, it spoilt our Journey mood and we have to change the plan from Walking Foot --> Take a Pedicab. due to we alerted 2 of our Traveller partner is not so good mood. because of Heavy rainned and make their mood not so good feeling. so that me and my another partner changed the plan and take a pedicab and neg. price with the driver.
Finally We got one pedicab come infront of us and we neg. Before we decide to book this pedicab tour package , we was confirmed the driver told us is 120,000 Dong. Than the Driver also didn't mention is one day or few hour price for this amount too. But we was re-confirmed with him 120,000 Dong , Sure ? Yes he said. The rain is getting heavy and heavy again , so that we quickly jumped into the Pedicab.
So He is driver cum Tour guide in Hue Ancient Town, He also volunteer told us will show us few places which is in Hue Citadel area .... We are very happy he treated us so nice , we saw him so hard working and so hard selling his Tour to us.
Once we Seated on the pedicab, Our Traveller Partner would like to have a cup of Vietnam Local Coffee again ..This trip we really enjoy ... one day at least got twice is having coffee or tea break .... one way enjoy the view , one way is enjoying the food too:) so Driver cum tour guide recommended us came to this coffee house. he said this is more cheaper than others beside cafe. ok , we just accept his idea ....
once we reached to coffee house , 1st think what we want to do ... quickly ask the counter staff , any wifi here and what is wifi password ??? :) due to we want to update to our friend our stated here ....ha ha...
Finally we ordered one cup for each this coffee ...not bad the taste still can accept it ... Vietnam Local Coffee... { Saigon Coffee }
Finally the bill is came out is ...Rm10.54 / 4 ppl = Rm2.635 per person. Cheap and reasonable price too....ha..ha...
We was spent almost one hour here to enjoy our coffee and updated our tour information to our friend through by we Chat or Face Book. nowadays , even we went to travel also not free , due to we want to be No.1 to update the tour information and share nice scenery or good information to our friend. :)
ok ! Time is getting to around 11:30 a.m. we have to rush to visit " Citadel Ancient Town " important point is here ....
Today weather is raining season, too bad Due to not convenience. we need to carry with umbrella and hop on / hop off pedicab transport. But no choice. we have to do it like this way.
Before visit to Citadel , driver show us another visit free entrance place is called to : Ho Chi Minh Village. When he was young in 5 years old , he been to living in Hue. Driver told us the whole story ....
It Look like " Kitchen " ????
Finished explanation by Driver and we just spent 10 min here and carry on to visit another place also recommended by driver too.. all is become history place in Hue.
Hue Citadel Ancient Town street view ....
See , he can make it , only one motorcycle and can carry a lot of Mineral
Water Bottle , also is big bottle ??? So Amazing ...
Morning we went to one of the Gate , but now we will moving to another gate , but we really don't know this is under : South , North , West , East Gate. Due to almost same pattern Gate :) But any way we are very enjoy on the way all the scenery. Due to all is History Building....
This is also one of the history ...look at the " Star " location ... i make it remark there , was broken / damaged by war time long long century ... Driver show us this location and explained for this story ....
And Vietnam House also got story too ... almost is 3 or 4 level and narrow house , if can buy " Terrace House " it mean is " Rich Family" ...and got 3 or 4 level house , this i really can't remember the story , driver had explained to us ....
on the way we saw one of the temple in Hue , the building is so nice and hand-carved so amazing.... this is look like chinese style Buddhist Temple.
Finally we arrived to " CITADEL " UNESCO WORLD OF HERITAGE.
SO AMAZING BUILDING ....
Under Renovation ....
Front Building ....
Entrance Ticket : USD3.00 { 105,000 Dong } i can't remember ..... may be
Large Citadel ... see below structure ....
Below is Exit Gate .... We Walked around one hour here and go out to meet our Driver .....
We informed Driver here and suddenly he showned us a paper and ask us to see the paper ... oh my god , it is huge amount here ...he want to charge us is different amount what we was discussed at morning.
Driver is courted by hourly ... we really not feeling happy with him , due to 1st of all , morning told us is under 120,000 per pedicab...but at the end , shown us is : 540,000 per person x 5 hour...we really too surprised for this amount. { it mean is Rm91.80 } after we not agree this amount and neg. with him until 900,000 for 4 people price. we told him we have no more extra to pay you . it is unreasonable price, and make us not so happy and felt that he is not honest driver. bargained price than he have no choice, due to we told him, you did not mention this price at morning. make us angry and we only can give him our figure is 900,000 Dong.
900,000 Dong
的三轮车费用啊。。。好贵哦!五小时费 = Rm153.00。 俩辆的费用。原先为120,000 Dong x 4.5 Hrs = 540,000 每人。经过我们一番的讨价还价,最后我们只付他900,000 Dong. 在顺化市的三轮车,实在太过分收费了啦.
Finally he have to accept. we quickly stop him and we told him , we can walk to the Dong Ba Market to look for lunch , it just only take around 30 min arrive to Dong Ba Market. Most Important you can ask or brave to ask the local people , how to walk to the Market. just be brave to do it ...:)
Additional for Citadel Photo here :-
Finally we reached to " Hue Dong Ba Market " my comment is Dirty , messy and many " SMALL ANIMAL " running around this Market :)
This Market is the Famous in Hue , according to searched from Internet....
Dong Ba market is situated along the northern bank of Huong river, Tran Hung Dao, Hue city and it is far about Truong Tien bridge about 100 meters to the North. Dong Ba market is the biggest central market of Thua Thien - Hue province and area.
This is Dong Ba Market what we ordered ... Don't know what is this ,
i think is one type of " Vietnam Mee Soup " ...
This one also look so delicious ... we are very hungry after one p.m. from morning till now .. we just seat down and order this and that .. we didn't ask them how much for this time ... bad news is coming soon..... :)
Food Court is just infront of this store ...
We also ordered one pcs of : Coconut Drink and others Orange Juice. The juice is too sweet and Coconut is also same too ... due to they put some sugar as well.. not the original one...
Finally we want to paid , Wow .. you can't image Lunch is super expensive than our Dinner on last night. 320,000 Dong = Rm54.50 / 4 ppl shared = Rm13.625. all of us can't accept this amount and felt that not reasonable price. but we have no choice , have to paid. after our lunch , we need to go to look for : Wash Room.
Wow... Too surprised .. we really can't imagine still got such of type of " Open toilet / Wash Room " why ? They need to pay entrance fee and once you enter to the toilet. i really open my " Big Eye " you can saw many Women go Toilet without closing door and just do their business on the floor ...Yackie ! it look like old Century style ....
Time is getting around at 5:30 p.m. so our team would like to go back hotel and take a rest / shower after come out for Dinner At 7:00 p.m.
I think this street is the Famous Spot area for the Food and Restaurant.
When we walked around this area , we found out this restaurant is rated
by : Trip Advisor. let go and try ...
We tasted the food finally , rated 60% by us. so so only ...Portion is not big and small portion. price also pricy too... we felt that quite high living cost in Hue. 1st day our journey is ended & we going back to hotel and carry on 2nd day journey in Hoi An Ancient Town.
Dinner Fee : 426,000 dong x 0.00017 = Rm72.42/ 4ppl = Rm18.105 per person.