Hue

After originally planning on taking the train from Hoi An, we decided to take the bus, which cut down our actual travelling time quite substantially. Of course, the guy that we bought the bus tickets from told us that we would be picked up from our hotel, and that the bus would drop us off at any hotel we wanted to be dropped off at in Hue. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it was. Not only did we get the worst bus on the road, but the bus dropped us off at the hotel that was obviously giving it commission, and so we had to get off there, where we were harrassed by at least 10 different people trying to get us to go to their hotels, and at least 5 different cyclo drivers wanting us to get a ride with them. Despite our best lies in saying that we had a reservation elsewhere, they still wouldn't leave us alone, at which stage our patience was starting to wear desperately thin, and we just got into the first metered taxi that we saw. Foolishly thinking that he would be a bit more honest. Well, firstly he tried to conceal (by putting his business card up in front of it) the fact that his meter had already been running for quite a long period of time, and was already on 18000 dong. So we got him to restart his meter and he then took us to the hotel we had asked for, by which stage the meter was on 8000 dong (the minimum fare). As if it wasn't enough that he had already tried to cheat us, when Warren handed him 10000 dong as payment, he not only did not want to give us change, but actually wanted us to give him more money! Luckily we had enough change between the two of us, so we took back the 10000 note, and gave him 8000 in smaller notes, which he was clearly not very happy with. So our first impressions of Hue were not very favourable.