Hue Imperial City Walking Tour (2.5 Hours)

Description

If you stay in Hue and don’t have enough time for a Hue City Tour full day or Hue city half day tour, but still would like to visit the must-visit attraction in Hue. The Hue Imperial City Walking Tour is the best option for you.

Booking our Hue Imperial City Tour, you will have 2.5 hours exploring the complex of Hue Imperial Citadel (Hue Citadel, Hue Royal City & Forbidden City). Our excellent local guide will tell you a lot of stories and interesting information about the royal life of 13 Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs.

HUE IMPERIAL CITY WALKING TOUR

What You Get From This Tour

• Walking around the complex of Hue Imperial Citadel with beautiful monuments.
• Understand deeply about the Nguyen Dynasty via untold stories.
• Our excellent English-speaking tour guide will give you a lot of information about the Vietnam War.
• Learn deeply about the Fengshui setting, and architecture of Hue Imperial City.
• Our local guide will give you interesting information about the royal life of 13 Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs.
• Learn more about the main differences between the Nguyen Dynasty compared with others in Vietnam and China.
• Learn more about the function of each part of the Citadel, single monuments in the complex.
• Understand the formation and the disintegration of the Nguyen Dynasty from 1802 to 1945.

Hue Imperial Citadel Walking Tour Details

At 8:00 am or 14:00, we will meet our local guide at ” Lac Thien Restaurant” at Thuong Tu Gate- Hue Citadel at 06 Dinh Tien Hoang Street. After the greetings, our local guide will give you an overview of the Fengshui setting of the Hue Imperial Citadel complex and the function of each part.

Our excellent tour guide will take you to admire the first section of the complex- the Hue Citadel.  It is the protecting area with the highlights that you must visit including the Nine Holy Cannons, The Noon Gate (Ngo Mon Gate), The Flag Tower, and the Kim Thuy moat.

Keep doing the Hue Imperial City walking tour, we will explore the second section of the Hue Imperial Citadel complex- the Royal City, the former working section of the Nguyen Dynasty. Our local guide will take you up to Ngu Phung Palace- the place the Emperors announced the most important policies to the country and people.

We will explore the Thai Hoa Palace – the most important working office of the Emperor and high-ranking servants. The Hue Royal Family Temple, the worshiping temple of the Nguyen Dynasty. Our experienced local guide will tell you the worshiping order as well as guide you on how to pray, and burn the incense to offer to the emperors.

Last but not least in our Hue Imperial City Walking Tour is the Forbidden City- the private residence of 13 Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs. In this part, we will admire the residence of the Emperor’s mother, the Royal Library, the Royal Lake, the Royal Garden as well as Royal Theater.

Our tour guide will tell you a lot of stories, and information about the Royal Life of the 13 Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs. Some of the stories are not easy to find on the internet or guide books.

After 2.5 hours of exploring to learn about the Hue culture, traditions, and Hue Imperial Citadel complex architecture. You will be free to visit on your own and we finish the Hue Imperial Citadel walking tour.

Price

• 19 USD/ Person= 437,000 VND/ person.

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