What we loved discovering in Hue.
About ten kilometres from Hue, Hồ Thủy Tiên is a former water park that opened in 2004 before construction was even complete. It soon closed due to financial difficulties, despite several attempts to revive it. The site is best known for its enormous concrete dragon in the middle of a lake, alongside abandoned slides, pools and graffiti-covered buildings. Redevelopment work has changed parts of the park, but some of its unusual atmosphere remains.
Read the full recommendationHồ Thủy Tiên, Thủy Bằng, Hue, Vietnam
In front of us, the traffic in Hué looks like a steady stream of scooters. An hour earlier, we were quietly sipping coffee at a huge intersection, fascinated by the way the motorcycles pass each other and weave in and out without ever really stopping. Now that we’re on our own scooter in the middle of the flow, the experience is different. Here, the horn…
