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Hue

In order to get to Hue from Hanoi we had to endure a 14 hour train journey, we had a cabin with 4 child size bunks which we shared with 2 friends and a family of cockroaches. needless to say, Amy slept for almost the entire journey whilst I tried to strike a balance between fitting my legs on shelf and keeping my head inside the only opening in a giant mosquito net (what is the point in having a mosquito net if it has a hole in it?). She still woke up cranky.

All before checking into our hotel, which meant we weren't as interested as we could have been, we visited a pagoda, a kings tomb and had lunch at a nunnery where after the meal the chief Nun made everyone (with little English) eat and drink any left-overs... that was a bit awkward.

The car that the shaolin monk drove to Saigon and used the petrol to burn himself to the death in protest of the war. 

 An Elephant that surprised us in the forbidden city. (just by being there when we weren't expecting it... it didn't do tricks or anything)

Bunkers at the top of the mountain on the way to Hoi An, a Vietnamese stronghold in the war.