Vietnam: Hue


Street


Spring is coming


Grade stele for mandarins to position themselves in front of the king
The Chinese characters mean "top grade"


Eave with traditional design, Royal Palace


Well, Royal Palace


Garden, Tu Duc's Mausoleum


On the largest stele in Vietnam
King Tu Duc wrote his own biography
In this part he lamented that
"European bandits from nowhere came to assault this country"
This is not politically correct since
the westerners most sincerely came all the way
to modernize the Orient from their "barbarian" life


Incense


Banh Nam
Hue is renowned for its traditional Vietnamese cuisine


A corner on the wall of a small restaurant
Doodle seems to be the popular thing in Hue
for travelers to kill time while waiting for food