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| Hoi An - its like the HSBC adverts |
Hoi An is a typical
little ancient Vietnamese town, very touristy, but at the same time,
quite enchanting. We spent 4 days there. At night there are lanterns
lighting up all of the streets and you can have dinner overlooking
the river which has lots of floating lanterns in it and women in
traditional hats punting along in little boats.
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| Quaint little city - perfect for exploring with a bike |
One of the main
features of Hoi An is that it is full of tailor shops and everywhere
you walk, people are asking you to come in and have clothes made. The
clothes are amazing – they basically base them on UK catalogues
like Next and you can see lots of different outfits hanging up in the
windows. On the first night we were having dinner in a restaurant and
the waitress asked us if we wanted to go in the clothes shop nextdoor
and have a look around after out meal. We couldn't really say no (she
was very insistent) so we ended up in the tailor shop and
consequently bought 12 new items of clothes in total. I had two
traditional Vietnamese tops tailor made and a skirt. Jemma had some
work clothes made.
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| Jemma getting work clothes made |
Our other days in Hoi
An were spent either walking around the town, having one of those
pedlos peddle us around the town, or cycling to the beach.
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| Large group of Chinese tourists being pedalled around |
The day we
cycled to the beach, we saw some amazing scenery; rice paddies,
traditional little houses by the river and a stunning beach. We
stopped at a cafe by the beach, where we got hassled by lots of women
selling stuff and had no choice once again but to buy stuff we didn't
need. We had sob stories and lots of English phrases thrown at us
such as 'luvly jubbly' and 'open your heart, open your wallet'.
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| Bike ride past rice paddies |
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