Hoi An
Travel Blogs from Hoi An, Vietnam
Hoi An - Suit you sir!
... a great way to get out of the baking sun and off the burning white sands. On the first day however we really experienced what Hoi An is all about - Tailoring. I would guess that around 50% of shops in town are tailors who will make just about anything ...
Wherein I meet Kid Rock and join a Motley Crue
Oh, Hoi An, how I am enjoying you! Yesterday morning after a very satisfying breakfast at my $20 US negotiated rate down from $35 (booyah!) hotel my lovely taxi driver came and picked me up. He managed to get my flight to Hanoi for me Friday ...
Snip snip, chop chop. (hello chopping)
... and the shops stay open way after dark, helping make the narrow quaint streets beautifuly lit. We all agree that Hoi An is already our favourite place in Vietnam. 13/9/2011 We start the day with a four hour bicycle tour around the suburbs of the city. We ...
My Son Ruins
This morning we got up early for the drive to My Son (pron. me son), ruins from the Cham empire 45 km south of Hoi An. The drive down was fascinating. School starts at seven (we left at 6:30) so everyone was out and about and we got to see the country ...
Chap Ma
... name, Co his given name. Still, everybody calls him Le Co. I found him pretty interesting. He is an English teacher with a large vocabulary. I think what motivates that is his wanting to know more about the differences in our ...
Hoi An
Feeling the sun on our backs strolling the quaint streets of Hoi An was a pleasant change, although inevitably we were soon diving for suncream and gasping for a cold drink. A small town most famous for its customised shopping opportunities, it was not ...
The tailors of Hoi An
... not know how to make good desserts using dairy products. The next day we take a tour of some of the most interesting buildings in Hoi An by buying a 75000 Dong (GBP3.00) ticket that gives us access to 5 places of our choice in and around the old ...
More Hanging Out in Hoi An
... in South East Asia, sells all sorts of fruits and vegetables along with less perishable products such as pots, buckets, and pans. Wandering Hoi An, I felt perfectly safe, in spite of my carrying upwards of 2 million Dong in Donna and my money belts. As I ...
Hoi An and My Son
... other for hours at a time during bus/train/car/plane/tuk-tuk rides. We separate only to go to the bathroom. Pretty frightening, I know. Hoi An is a charming place to spend a couple of days. Any more than that and you'll either get really tired of the ...
Busting the budget...tailor-made in Hoi An
... , a place that when I visited a few years ago I figured would be a pretty close approximation of Katie's heaven. Hoi An is a wonderful historic city with cobblestone streets lined with tons of well-preserved temples, ancient clan meeting houses, historic ...
Vietnam, land of Communism?
... Mekong Delta (Chau Doc) was very pleasent. Even in Ho Chi Minh City the people were not that persistent. Maybe it's that Hoi An is a tourist center. Still, the town maintains a pleasant atmosphere. Just a few hours ago Sarah and I were wandering ...
Da Lats the Hue uh-huh uh-huh - I like it!
... and long sandy beaches and crystal blue waters on our left. We passed China Beach in Danang where the US first landed in Vietnam. We arrived in Hoi An at lunch time and were dropped off at a brand new luxury hotel with a huge pool. We were trying to get ...
Nguyen
Hello. What I was looking forward to most on this trip was visiting Hoi An and the Nguyen family. I met them at the chopsticks store on my last visit. They invited me to stay in their second house. In fact, they insisted several ...
Suits You!
... woo) quite in the centre and had a bit of a nap then went out for breakfast at a handy place next door to the hotel. Hoi An is a beautiful place, during the war (which we are now experts on) both sides had an agreement to not bomb it which they ...
More tales from Hoi An
... looking men wearing traditional black robes and hats playing board games on the sidewalks which really suited the atmosphere and look of old Hoi An. We came across a really fun game where you're blindfolded with a mask and have to whack a small pottery ...
Vi
Hello everybody, One of the things I liked about Hoi An was getting to know the locals. My second day there I took a walk across a bridge to see what was outside the old town. I followed the road a ways looking at the people, homes and style ...
Brakes, check. Flaps, check. Lipstick, check.
... for 5.30am for a flight back south to Ho Chi Minh City, and hopefully some sunshine. To round things off, Hoi An has to be the nicest town in Vietnam with the friendliest people, but, although the weather didn't help, eight days were a little too long ...
Made to measure capital... Lets go shopping
Actual title for today "Hoi An - Made to Measure Capital of the World, oh and we set our own Stevie R style challenge" The sun rose at about 5.15 and the insomniacs on the bus were all awake excited about the sunrise and the views of the countryside, yes ...
Rainy Vietnam
... all the furniture to an upper floor when they are anticipating disaster. A typhoon had come through southern vietnam just days before we were in Hoi An, apparently it was really bad and cause lots of flooding. There was a marker on the wall ...
Tu Duy
... was really fun to run into such a creative thinker. I wish I had run into him sooner during my stay in Hoi An. Definitely looking forward to seeing Tu Duy again. Visual art like painting and photography is a really subjective thing. ...
Vietnam - Hoi An
... tea set. We then did the typical tourist thing and bought a couple of conical hats - well, 'when in Vietnam!' Our 4 days in Hoi An had come to an end and we had to travel northwards to Da Nang to catch the flight down to Ho Chi ...
Tourism - good or bad? Stopover in Vietnam
... culture is better than another - but the contrast was quite confronting to see from behind the receptionist desk. During my time in Hoi An a large typhoon (hurricane / cyclone) was passing by 100 km away and so the weather was pretty bad. So I either ...
Cantonese Assembly Hall
The Cantonese Assembly Hall is one of the many visually stunning and historically important buildings in Hoi An. Would you like to hear all about it? Well, I got rid of my Vietnam guidebook, so I can't help you. If it's really important to ...
Hue - to go... RAIN!
... evening meals.(Had cuttlefish on the scond night which was fabulous with the consistency of a hard boiled egg white) Food aside, Hoi An has some lovely well preserved old houses and assembly halls, a Japanese bridge and the architecture is a fusion of ...
IndoChina 1860
... because I've heard or read its name on so many films and books, but just passed through, as it looked a bit non descript. Reached Hoi An, where I wandered the streets, no longer willing to pay $10 for a room - and found a great room for $6. Hoi Ann ...
Beach bumming and a slithery encounter
... bellied Buddhas and the like. I took the opportunity to purchase my kitch gift - a green tiger statuette... yuck! We arrived in Hoi An at midday, and made the usual orientation walk into town. It's a pretty place crammed with art galleries, bistros and ...
Hue to Hoi An - shopping capital of the world
... all they are Buddhists and don't believe in mowing people down) whilst a man hung out of the door of the bus swinging his arms in an attempt to hit you. It is safe to assume that the bigger you are the more right you have to be there. It was while trying ...
Hoi An - Day 112-115
... stopping at cafes that frustrates me. I'd prefer just to get to the place sooner rather than stopping all the time. Anyway, I'm now in Hoi An and I'm staying in a really nice place called An Hoi hotel. A great room with A/C, fridge, TV, free internet and ...
Celine Johnson has a nice ring to it
... it was presenting both sides of the story of the Vietnam/American War. Disturbing images, but pretty damn amazing. And now, Hoi An. Which has already been interesting. I seem to have procured a personal taxi driver. I’m a little ...
Danang, Hoi An and craving chocolate!
... are being planted on the right. This is the first of two planting seasons for the area's rice farmers. We arrive at the Hoi An Trails Resort for two nights. Lauren and I take a break from the tour as we are exhausted and suffering from 'curious ...

