After marble mountain we continued on the bus for a few more hours into Hue. We had lunch then jumped on some motorbike taxis for a tour of the town. We saw the citadel, and then headed into the countryside. We went totally off road and were literally driving along mud tracks which got so tight in points we were driving with our limbs in the shrubbery.
We drove to an old arena where the kings used to make tigers and elephants fight. After that we drove back to a village where locals make insense sticks, and had a go at making our own; yep, alot harder than it looks. My driver proudly put my deformed stick on the front of the bike all the same though.
After that, we drove up bunker hill which gives an amazing view down over the perfume river; considered the nicest in Vietnam.
After that we drove back into the village lanes (everbody breath in we had about a cm to spare either side half the way), and went to meet a woman who makes conical hats. This particular woman has just one arm. Her father was killed in the war before she was born, so she was raised with her mother. She was told by everyone that she couldn't do anything because she was disabled and that she should just go and try to get money from the government; but she was determined not to and learnt to make hats, and has now become famous in her area for making such beautiful hats; which take great skill to make with two hands let alone one. After that we drove through the rice fields and watched the farmers working for a short while.
After that we stopped for a coffee, and after that we came home. After that I applied for an award for saying 'after that' the most times in one paragraph....
In the evening we went for dinner then to have competitions in a local bar to see who could drink buckets the fastest, and wound up dancing the night away.
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