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Hué being only 100 km away from a main Vietnam war combat zone, I decided to check it out. Initially, I wanted to treat myself to a day trip on a moto taxi taking me to various landmarks. (Being on the passenger seat of a motorbike is truly awesome.) But my driver let me down at the last minute ”because it’s raining and it’s too far.” I think he wanted to stay in town with his friends to get drunk for Tet. So I hopped on a bus with twenty other tourists instead.

The Rockpile on top of which a US army base used to be during the Vietnam war.

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