HUE From Sapa,we took the bus back to Hanoi where we spent the night before catching a short flight to Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam. From the shuttle bus, Hue looked like a more manageable city. Busy, interesting, but less chaotic than Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. Many Vietnamese people travel here, and even the tourist neighborhoods pandered less to western expectations and preferences, and the city felt more like a city than an “America theme park,” as some tourist areas end up  ...