Huế for Hoi An
Diminutive stone guardians Our favourite method of transport on this trip has been the train . Long distances are covered relatively quickly without the worry of traffic or death by road accident. You can walk around and wee when you want. You can watch the world go by from a much better angle than by car. You make a much smaller carbon footprint than by plane. You meet the people sharing your compartment. Yadda yadda. The list goes on. So it is with sweet nostalgia that I write about our final overnight journey by train. This was the option we chose to take us from Hanoi to Huế (pronounced 'hway'). Around 12 hours and we got the top bunks. But we didn't see the world go by as it was dark so fortunately we opted to take one more daytime train journey after this one which took us adjacent to the coastline from Huế to Danang, the station closest to Hoi An. And the scenery was just spectacular. More of Hoi An later. First up Huế - Vietnam's cultural centre . Tombs, pa