Hue
Abandoned water slides. Huế was for a time the capital of Vietnam. Thus it's main attraction is the Imperial City, but for me, my main goal was to go see the abandoned water park in the outskirt of the city. To reach Hue, I took a bus in Hoi An and in just 4 hours I got there. The city isn't too big so I walked from the touristic center to the imperial city and spent an afternoon there. Since Hue is in the center of the country, close to the border between north and south Vietnam, it sustained a lot of destruction during the war. From the hundreds of buildings in the imperial city, only a few could be restored. You can only imagine from the empty spaces and old pictures how it must have been. 8 km south of the city center is Hồ Thủy Tiên, an abandoned water park. I rented a bicycle and headed there. I went late in the afternoon to take pictures with the sunset. Once I got close a nice local boy told me the best route to go. Apparently it's better to enter from...