Hue Trip Overview
A very big passion with history and culture knowledge about Hue will make your day remarkable. The future of Hue tourism stays in your experience today!
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Additional Info
Duration: 6 to 7 hours
Starts: Hue, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Hue, Thua Thien – Hue Province, Vietnam
A very big passion with history and culture knowledge about Hue will make your day remarkable. The future of Hue tourism stays in your experience today!
I deeply understand that.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Tomb of Minh Mang, Huong Tho, Hurong Tra, Hue 530000 Vietnam
In the morning, your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel to go to Minh Mang tomb which located in a very good Feng-shui location. The tomb location situated next to the confluence of Perfume river. And it had been seeking for 14 years by Geomancy Mandarin Le van Duc.
At here, your tour guide will explain and the life of Minh Mang who was considered as one of the most powerful Emperor in the history of Vietnam. Vietnam was wealthy and strong under his reign (1820-1841). He also helped to form the nation culture unitedly. That’s why Minh Mang Emperor changed the nation name from Vietnam to Dai Nam (great nation in the south) to be equivalent with achievements!. His tomb – Minh Mang tomb was designed in a really impressive way with stunning scenery. Obviously, it reflected his characteristics.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Tomb of Khai Dinh, Thuy Bang Commune, Huong Thuy, 530000 Vietnam
Afterwards, you will go to Khai Dinh tomb which is one of the most special architecture and the most expensive among 7 tombs under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945). This complex started to be built in 1920 and took eleven years to complete, and it still unfinished till the Emperor Khai Dinh died of tuberculosis in 1925. His son, the last Emperor of Vietnam- Bao Dai, finally completed the tomb in 1931.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Thien Mu Pagoda, Kim Long Road Huong Long Village, Hue 532761 Vietnam
Keep going ahead, we come to Thien Mu, one of the most beautiful pagoda in Hue, located next to Perfume river. This buddhist pagoda also gives you interesting information which relates to the establishment of the Nguyen family and Nguyen dynasty in Hue from 1558 – 1945.
And then taking a private boat to ride downstream on Perfume river back to city center. Car and tour guide take you to a family for lunch!
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Hue Imperial City (The Citadel), Hue Vietnam
After lunch, final attraction you go to is Imperial city where Nguyen Dynasty governed the nation from 1802 – 1945. Imperial city was also home for Nguyen family under that time. 1802 after defeated Tay Son reign and united the nation as one, Gia Long – first king of Nguyen dynasty chose Hue as a capital of the nation. 2 year later, He started to build the complex of Citadel. Imperial city is the second round, inside Citadel wall. The massive complex features hundreds of monuments. Unfortunately, most of them was destroyed and ruined by war, time and even abandoned by politic reason.
Finally, around 4pm we will transfer you back to your hotel.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
