Touring Hue and its countryside

What a great day we had today! We departed from the hotel at 8.30 by motorcycle and boarded a boat for a cruise on the Perfume River. We stopped at a Pagoda, a monastery where we saw trainee monks as young as seven! Back to the boat to continue our cruise to the other side of the river where we were reunited with our bikes. The rest of the day was spent on motorbike stopping off at various places - a place where incense burners were made, the tomb of the 3rd Emperor of Vietnam who reigned from 1840 to 1847 - a condemned prisoner built the tunnel but when he finished the tunnel he was executed so no one knows where the Emperor is buried! - bunker hill ( an American base overlooking the river ), a Buddhist nunnery where we had a vegetarian lunch and a lesson in meditation and in worshipping the Buddha, a conical hat maker and a rice museum. We were in and out of main roads, back streets, alleyways, dirt tracks, over narrow bridges, along the train tracks, paths where it was too narrow to walk, between flooded paddy fields - totally exhilarating!