Join a half-day journey exploring the eternal houses of the Nguyen Kings with the Hue Royal Tombs Tour, guided by a professional and amiable tour guide.
In addition to enriching your knowledge about the tombs of Minh Mang, Tu Duc, and Khai Dinh, you’ll also have the chance to visit the Hue Incense Making Village and personally craft a souvenir while there.
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HUE ROYAL TOMBS TOUR
Let us know the time and destination you want to begin the journey. Our staff will come to pick you up and depart the Royal Tombs tour hue according to your wishes time.
However, The typical duration of the tour is 4 to 5 hours. you should consider the beginning time soon to get a wonderful experience at the scheduled tour destinations.
Itinerary Of Hue Royal Tombs Tour.
Minh Mang tombs
After taking you, the Minh Mang Tomb is the first destination in the Hue Tombs Tour.
Minh Mang as well as the other Nguyen dynasty kings believe that the life we are living is temporary. passing away, and stepping into the other world is truly an eternal existence.
Therefore, after enthrone, the Minh Mang emperor constructed their tombs while still in power as preparation for his forever homes in the afterlife.
With the Confucian architecture, the design of the Minh Mang mausoleum not only creates a symmetrical structure but also shows the solemnity, and the harmony between yin and yang.
When footing here, you can see a long sacred road stretching across many structures in the Minh Mang mausoleum such as the Hiển Đức Gate, the Sùng Ân Temple, the Trừng Minh Lake, Minh Lâu Pavilion, Tân Nguyệt Lake, the Quang Minh Chính Trực Triple Gate, the Trung Đạo Bridge, and finally culminates at the Bửu Thành.
Our tour guide will give you details about these places when coming here.
Khai Dinh Mausoleum
After the productive moments in King Minh Mang’s eternal home, we will transfer to Khai Dinh Mausoleum – the most unique tomb in Hue’s tomb system.
Khai Dinh is the 12th king of the Nguyen Dynasty. He had an eccentric sense of aesthetics, favoring makeup and flashy clothing that defied traditional attire.
Therefore, His unique taste is also reflected in the architectural elements of his constructions, especially in Khai Dinh Tomb.
Khai Dinh mausoleum is a combination of Hindu, Buddhist, Roman, and Gothic architecture. This blending creates a distinctive and unique beauty, unlike the Confucian style employed in other tombs.
In the tomb system of the Nguyen Dynasty. Khai Dinh’s mausoleum is the smallest one. However, It’s also more elaborate and time-consuming than others. The overall architecture of the tomb features five levels, with a total of 127 steps. It includes the Tam Quan gate, the Bai Dinh courtyard, and most notably, the Khai Dinh Palace.
Khai Dinh Palace is the burial place of the king. If the outside is a testament to time, then the interior will leave you awestruck by the extraordinarily beautiful glass color and porcelain mosaics crafted by artisans of the past.
Out of those pieces of information, our friendly tour guide will make you more impressed with the mythical nine dragons hidden in the clouds on the walls and the golden statue cast to the exact height of the king.
Tu Duc Tomb
The next destination in the Royal Tombs Hue tour is Tu Duc Tomb.
Tu Duc was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty, he was a gentle king with talent in literature, skill in poetry, and a poet’s soul. Therefore, he chose a peaceful and harmonious natural setting for his final resting place and the construction of his tomb.
The tomb was constructed in 1864 amid the deprivation of the Vietnamese people coupled with Epidemic diseases that occurred a plots to overthrow the government, which were uncovered and suppressed.
Tu Duc Tomb is an architectural complex comprising 50 structures along with Confucian architecture
Particularly, these structures all bear the word “Khiêm,” such as Khiêm Cung Gate, Khiêm Đường Path, Dũ Khiêm Tạ Pavilion, Xung Khiêm Tạ Pavilion, Linh Khiêm Palace, Minh Khiêm Theater, Lưu Khiêm Lake, and Tịnh Khiêm Island. However, many of these structures have been damaged over time and only their foundations remain.
