Flew to Hue (pronounced whey) and were met by another excellent guide, Hang, who used to teach Tourism at Saigon University before moving to Hue with her husband. Hue was the Imperial Capital during the Nguyen Dynasty and is still dotted with royal palaces & pagodas despite heavy bombing by the US. 
The roads are wide and full of bicycles instead of beeping motorbikes. The high school girls tuck their long white uniform into the waistbands so they don’t get muddy or tangled in the spokes!
Did a boat trip down the Perfume River (don’t bother) to the Thein Mu Pagoda (which was very good). This monastery was sadly put on the map in 1963 by Thich-Quang-Duc, a monk who set himself on fire at a busy crossroads to protest the anti-Buddhist policies of the South Vietnamese Government. His little Austin car has been kept as a memorial and you may recognize the famous photograph that featured in LIFE and TIME magazines etc. at the time.
The Imperial Citadel is well worth a look and UNESCO is funding the reconstruction of the outlying palace buildings that were destroyed in the war.
