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Needless to say we woke up the next day feeling a little worse for wear. We looked outside and the weather was really horrid, it was like one of those really grey, wet, cold Manchester days where you know that you will end up staying indoors and probably find yourself watching a really bad movie! Yeap that’s exactly what happened.

We woke up feeling a lot more refreshed that we had the day before and it was our last day, as our train was leaving at 3.45 p.m. So we got up early and went to check out the Citadel, Hue’s main tourist attraction. Within the Citadel lies The Imperial City which dates back from the early 19th Century and has the same layout as the Forbidden Place in Beijing. Parts of it were really old and in ruins but there was one part which was well

maintained and very Chinese. It was a great way to spend our last morning in Hue, by the time we had finished around here and had eaten it was time to get our taxi to station and board our Hanoi bound train. Unfortunately the only train tickets we could get were hard sleeper, which turned out to be 6 bunks (with no extra head room) in a compartment and when they say hard sleeper boy do they mean it! It was like trying to sleep on what can only be describes as something that resembling a metal wallpaper pasting table!!! We were sharing our compartment with a Dutch couple who were really nice and had spent a lot of time around South America so we picked up some valuable tips. Each time we came into a station we prayed that no-one else would get in our compartment! We were fine until the last night stop, we were all in bed trying to get comfy when their was a knock on the door and a couple of Vietnamese lads came in and climbed onto the top bunks!!! Now I know where that saying about sardines comes f