The Citadel is the walled part of the city that housed the ancient town. Inside the Citadel is another walled citadel where the Emperors and his concubines resided. Unfortunately a lot of it has been destroyed - firstly by the French when they took Hue, then by the Viet Cong in 1968 for 3 weeks and finally by the Americans when they kicked the Viet Cong out.
Our first job was to try and steel the flag at the main gate. (Good camera work Lisa!)
Jordan and Tia got their portraits done in the Citadel by two blind art students. Either that or they were students of impressionism.
Actually we were in luck. The royal family were in residence today. They looked slightly familiar and are a good looking bunch of roosters.
The Emperors liked to ride elephants (presumably because of the number of motorbikes on the road). The weather was so hot today even this elephant had to throw his water over himself like most of us.
The weather was so hot Emperor Brynley had a few beers while sitting on his royal throne.
They wouldn't let us ride the elephants back to the hotel so we took Cyclos from the market. Each driver got paid $1 to peddle our lard asses about 3 km. Brynley heard his driver muttering something about a fat overweight bastard with a big nose. Brynley thinks the driver was obviously referring to one of the elephants at the main gate.
Tia really enjoyed the Cyclo as you can see on this video.
