text: [{"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "Trains from Ha Tinh to Hue"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "By train the journey from Ha Tinh to Hue is scheduled to take 6 to 7 hours depending upon which train service you use."}, {"text_idx": "#000031", "text": "Location of Ha Tinh Train Station"}, {"text_idx": "#000033", "text": "Location of Hue Train Station"}, {"text_idx": "#000035", "text": "Hue is a city of over 450,000 permanent residents scenically located on the banks of the perfume river in Central Vietnam."}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "This popular tourist destination is dominated by its Imperial Citadel from where the Emperors of the Nguyen dynasty ruled over Vietnam from 1804 to 1945, although in name only for much of period with real power exercised by the French colonial government. The Imperial Citadel is a UNESCO World Heritage site which attracts lots of visitors. The Imperial Citadel is surrounded by a wall as well as a moat and occupies an area of approximately 10 square kilometres. Much of the Imperial Citadel was destroyed in the Battle of Hue in 1968. Since then a large reconstruction project has taken place and the compound is gradually being restored."}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "Hue has plenty of other attractions worth visiting. The Nguyen Emperors built increasingly impressive tombs on the outskirts of the city, the best of which is the Tomb of Emperor Khai Dinh which is built in levels ascending up a hillside with a fantastically ornate crypt on the top level."}, {"text_idx": "#000046", "text": "Click on the image above for train times, station information and destination guides for popular journeys in Vietnam."}]