Thế Giới Publishers is pleased to announce the launch of Tim Doling’s latest English-language guidebook, Exploring Huế (2018).
Over 520 pages long and packed with useful maps and images, Exploring Huế takes visitors on a journey of discovery through the ancient Nguyễn dynasty heartland of Thừa Thiên Huế province.
The first detailed English language heritage tourism guidebook to this area, Exploring Huế takes in over 500 years of Nguyễn dynasty history, affording an opportunity to view and learn about the rich surviving built heritage associated with the nine Nguyễn lords and 13 Nguyễn emperors, their queens, princes, princesses and mandarins. It also introduces the Chinese heritage of Bao Vinh-Địa Linh and Gia Hội, the architecture of the French town south of the river, relics of the American War era, and the cultural traditions of the region’s ethnic minority groups. Visitors can choose from 23 different tours, covering Huế city and the province’s six districts and two district-level subdivisions.
The book is launched in the wake of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s January 2018 visit to Huế, in which he urged that more should be done to develop the tourism potential of the city he dubbed the “Kyoto of Viet Nam.” It is hoped that Exploring Huế will help to boost the Huế tourism sector by providing greater depth to the visitor experience and encouraging longer stays, more repeat visits and more sustainable tourism practices.
Tim Doling is the author of the walking tour guidebooks Exploring Hồ Chí Minh City (Nhà Xuất Bản Thế Giới, Hà Nội, 2014) and Exploring Huế (Nhà Xuất Bản Thế Giới, Hà Nội, 2018).
A full index of all Tim’s blog articles since November 2013 is now available here.
Join the Facebook group pages Saigon-Chợ Lớn Then & Now and Huế Then & Now to see historic photographs juxtaposed with new ones taken in the same locations, and Đài Quan sát Di sản Sài Gòn – Saigon Heritage Observatory for up-to-date information on conservation issues in Saigon and Chợ Lớn.