We spent today in Hue which is a beautiful city. It is much cleaner than we have been in so far. First thing we took a trip in a Dragon boat up the river to an interesting temple. The family who runs the boat also lives on it and it is about the length of our upstairs bathroom and half as wide with no furniture but a couple of little plastic chairs for us to sit on. We saw boats that people live on that earn their living dredging sand from the river bottom with hand wenches, and then sell it on shore for construction.

Our next stop was the Citadel which is similar to the Forbidden City in Bejing. There are a few buildings that survived the 1968 Tet battle, and many more are being restored. It is a huge place and was built by the Nyugen Dynasty which were the first to combine Vietnam into one country in 1802.

From there we went to a couple of burial sites of the emperors, each different and very elaborate.

Ahn our guide was telling us a little about his family. His parents met while fighting in the jungle for the North Vietnamese army and were married after the war in 1975. In 1979 the country was at war again with China and all Chinese in Vietnam were arrested and sent to "reeducation camps", his father among them. His family was not together again until 1985 when his father was released. It seems like a terrible injustice, and he said his father is very depressed and bitter.

We are waiting to take a 9:30 flight to Hanoi.