The Perfume River runs through Hue. We took a dragon boat up river towards Laos to visit the Celestial Lady Pagoda. The roads are really bad so the boat was our best transportation option. This temple's claim to fame is the monk who traveled to Saigon in a1963 and burnt himself to death in protest of the repressive South Vietnamese regime. They have the car he drove and a photo of the monk on fire at the temple.
We traveled further up river where we were picked up by motorbikes and driven to tombs of two Vietnamese emperors. Buses carried us to Thich Nhat Hanh's temple near Hue. He was exiled from Vietnam after the war and has only been allowed back into the country recently.
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