The Perfume River
Hue folk songs performance on the Perfume River is a unique form of Hue art activities, being preserved and developed over hundred years. For tourists to Hue, the most romantic moment at night in the Perfume River is admiring the image of glorious dragon boats and enjoying sweet Hue folk songs, the soul, the delicate art of Hue spiritual cultural value.
The Perfume River
Tickets for Hue folk songs show on the Perfume River: VND100,000 per Vietnamese and VND 150,000 per foreigner. Rates depends on the travel company and the number of participants.
Culinary: Some restaurants are located along the Huong river: Huong river restaurant (3/2 Le Loi Park), Old Quarter restaurant (Nguyen Dinh Chieu), Hoa Vien restaurant (4A Vo Thi Sau) Dao Nguyen (11 Le Loi).
Imperial Hue Citadel
Hue Citadel is opened at night from the Ngo Mon Gate to Thai Hoa Palace – The Mieu Temple – Cung Dien Tho – Truong Sanh Palace – Phuong Vo Ward – Hoa Binh Gate. Along with the opening at night, the Citadel with sparkling lights create a mysterious beauty completely different than the Citadel appearance in the daytime. In addition, many new services are introduced to visitors, such as: “Hue Citadel Night” with royal cultural activities in Doan Thi Diem Street; An Dinh provides royal services that would be the new extremely great experience for tourists in here; otherwise, tourists come to Hien Lam can enjoy the most reputable cultural value of Hue, royal worship discussion in the center of Hue royal worship.
Imperial Hue Citadel
Hue’s opening night program officially starts in the second quarter of 2017, the opening time is from 18h30 to 22h daily, the fee is unchanged from the price of the daytime.
Culinary: Hương Sen Restaurant (Nguyễn Trãi), Les Jardins de la Carambole CIUDADELA (Đặng Trần Côn), Hồng Mai Khoai Cake (65 Nguyễn Biểu), Phi Yến Che Hue (40 Lê Thánh Tôn), Di Nhiên Tà Thất (Nguyễn Thiện Thuật).
Nguyen Chieu Street
Located in the heart of Hue city, on the banks of the Perfume River, along the Trang Tien Bridge, at night, the Nguyen Chieu walking street is an ideal place for sightseeing, shopping, and enjoying Hue specialties in here.
Nguyen Chieu Street
The Nguyen Chieu Walking Street consists of 11 houses divided into lots for many business units and traders selling souvenirs and specialties of Hue. In addition, this place is for cultural exchanges, acoustic shows, flashmods, street paintings, etc., attracting many young people as well as tourists to enjoy exciting and busting moments at night.
Culinary: Go all the way to the walking street, tourists will find many restaurants with Hue specialties: duck cakes, powdered rice, mussel rice, bread soup, various kinds of Hue sweet tea in many colors.
XQ Gallery
XQ Co Do is located at 49 Le Loi Street. Coming here, tourists enable to discover an impressive space with the coordination between installation and performance of art. XQ Embroidery is a fusion of the characteristics of graphic arts with the traditional embroidery technique of Vietnam, bringing traditional themes to replace the bold content of Chinese traditions in previous centuries. This is the idea of couple artists, Vo Van Quan and Hoang Le Xuan, aim to restore, and find new directions for traditional embroidery work of Vietnam. This is a very meaningful gift for visitors to Hue.
XQ Gallery
Must see: After visiting the gallery, visitors can visit and order “Ao Dai” at the nearby tailor shop. Only one day you will own a beautiful Ao Dai, the symbol of Hue beauty.
Culinary: Am Phu Restaurant (51 Nguyễn Thái Học), Hạnh Huế (11 Phó Đức Chính), Little Italy Restaurant (10 Nguyễn Thái Học), Golden Rice (40 Phạm Ngũ Lão), Chè Hẻm (17 Hùng Vương).
Cyclo Ride Trip
A mean of transportation that many tourists love to experience in Hue, this is cyclo tourism. Cyclo moves slowly through the streets, the Hue citadel, flowing through small roads near the river and even the beautiful gardens that will leave tourists unforgettable memories in Hue. Especially, at night, the light illuminated the leaf canopy create white spots shimmering all over the path.
Cyclo Ride Trip
Top tips: Take a cyclo ride to capture images at desired places, or stopping at Che restaurants or vendors in the sidewalk to relax. In particular, cyclo drivers in Hue are ingenious tour guiders. They can speak English, some who know French, how to recite poetry and even history of the Nguyen mausoleums. Thus, do not heritage to talk with cyclo drivers to discover many interesting stories about special life in Hue.
Culinary: Nam Do Restaurant (8 Nguyen Binh Khiem), Hang Me Restaurant (12 and 16 Vo Thi Sau), Nam Pho Restaurant (54 Nguyen Cong Tru Street), Bo Phung (5 Nguyen Du) Bo Hue (Con Hen, Vi Da), Hue Tea (31 Nguyen Hue).
Café Spots
Hue is hometown of many beautiful café spots with charming scenery, and rich coffee flavors. Night in Hue is relatively special and peaceful, choosing for themselves a café spot on Perfume River, listening Hue folk songs, all brings a marvelous space for tourists to Hue and immerse in its unique peaceful beauty.
Café Spots
Top tips: Many coffee shops in the city center have a “view” overlooking to the beautiful Perfume river, including: Coffee shop on the 16th floor of the Imperial Hotel (8 Hung Vuong), Sky Café at the Midtown Hotel, Co Huong Coffee (2 Tran Hung Dao), Black And White Café (17 Le Loi), Song Trang coffee (8/27 Nguyen Sinh Cung), Vi Da Xua coffee (131 Nguyen Sinh Cung)
Culinary: At the cafeteria, there are a variety of beverages available: coffee, fruit juice, soft drinks, ice cream …
Pham Ngu Lao West Corner
Pham Ngu Lao West Corner is located on the South bank of the Perfume River. The street is not large and consists of ancient houses interspersed with the new style of tube house.
Pham Ngu Lao West Corner
Top tips: Along the street is a souvenir shop selling all kinds of traditional items, restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels and tourist offices. Winter is the most enjoyable season when the night falls. Today, the city has expanded to nearby roads such as Chu Van An, Le Loi, and Vo Thi Sau.
Must see: Located in the middle of the West Street is a group of Hue folk songs, at the house of writer Buu Y (9 Pham Ngu Lao), on Saturday. This place regularly welcomes many penetrators at home and abroad to enjoy and learn the art of Hue.
Culinary: Missy Roo Restaurant (11 Pham Ngu Lao), Golden Riec Restaurant (40 Pham Ngu Lao), La Carambole (19 Pham Ngu Lao), Gecko Pub (9 Pham Ngu Lao), T’House Coffee Ngoc Lao), Kangaroo Hue Restaurant & Cooking Class (31 Vo Thi Sau) …
Bars
If want to find the vibrant side of Hue, perhaps the bar is the ideal destination. Tourists will have great moments of entertainment with friends, and create the unforgettable adventures with the music or the vibrant dance.
Bars
Top tips: Cherish Hotel (59 Ben Nghe), DMZ bar (60 Le Loi), Brown Eyes bar (56 Chu Van An), The Restaurant of Nine Bistro (16 Pham Ngu Lao), Why Not Bar & Restaurant (26 Pham Ngu Lao), Cococlub (53 Ham Nghi), Le’s Garden Bar (14 Pham Ngu Lao),…
Culinary: Menu drinks in the bar with rich wines, beer, cocktail, mocktail … for you to delight your choice.
Let’s come to Hue and experience Hue specialties!
Explore more places: Perfume River; Hue Garden Houses; Ngu Binh mountain; Vong Canh Hill; Hue Citadel; Thien Mu Pagoda; Hue Imperial Museum of Royal Antiquity; Thuy Bieu Eco village; Bach Ma National Park; Dong Ba market; Truong Tien Bridge
