Country Info
- Hanoi
- Capital
- Dong (VND)
- Currency
- 79,939,014
- Population
- VN
- Country Code
Vietnam Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hoi An , Vietnam
Hoi An... It's Older Than Your Gran
This is a top pick! ... bus (thanks to our open bus ticket) to Hoi An, probably the cutest place we have been in a long time. Hoi An is Vietnam two hundred years ago with preserved cobble streets, traditional French and Portuguese architecture, situated in a quiet fishing and ...
A pint for 15p
This is a top pick! ... take a taxi 2 km down the road to the bus station and continue on a regular local bus to Hoi An, an hour away. All sounds simple, not in Vietnam. Taxi drivers crowd around offering prices for the 2km journey. $16 is the opening bid. ...
Canned
This is a top pick! ... handful of bananas, at least we knew they would be fresh bananas in the pancakes. After a quick wander around the old town in Hoi An we soon gave up as the sun was blisteringly hot (yet so many of the locals were still completely covered up from head ...
Hoi An and the French Influence
This is a top pick! ... found the French ambiance and air I was expecting. After a day-stop in Hue to visit the old monuments and tombs of imperial Vietnam, I bussed south to Hoi An for some R&R in a town I had been unfailingly told was the best place in Vietnam. And it was ...
Hey, Hey, Halong Bay, Hue and Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... cards in the room... The next day we fannied around for a few hours and then got on a bus to Hoi An, the tailoring capital of Vietnam. We went straight to our hotel and had a little wander around the town in the evening ...
Tailor made for the Vickers!
This is a top pick! ... just mean because of the curry I had eaten! We arrived safely though and jumped on our bus to the hotel - about 45 minutes away in Hoi An. The hotel was really swanky - not what we are used to on this tour. We weren'y going to complain though. We even ...
Shopping!
This is a top pick! ... the quality- but it looks pretty good to me! I'm sure Mum will cast a more detailed inspection over them when they arrive! Hoi An is a very historic town that still retains much of the French colonial architecture, making quite a change from Hue and ...
Trip to Hoi An
This is a top pick! Day 13 of my tour, Hanoi to Saigon was mostly spent on the mini van travelling from Hue to Hoi An... with all the stops, about 5 hours. Despite the obvious frustrations of being held back now and again, I couldn't have hoped for a better group to ...
My Son isn't really my own.
This is a top pick! ... 's supposed to mean something completely different in this part of Vietnam. My Son is a set of ancient ruins within the vicinity of Hoi An. I'd love to be able spout out a lot of information about the site, but our tour guide was pretty hopeless and I ...
Culture
This is a top pick! ... much as I wanted to oblige, songs were not going to happen. One day I was sitting in an internet shop. "You, come back Hoi An." Outside was one of the tailors I bought clothes from previously. She invited me back to her shop. Of ...
Suits You Sir
This is a top pick! ... death on the bus coming here battling both the heat and a hangover, I headed out to check out the old town of Hoi An. I was already much preferring this smaller more relaxed town than Hue which was a bit uninspiring really and on entering the old ...
Fights on the bus
This is a top pick! ... follow a path to see where it went. Nowhere! We walked along it for 10 minutes and came to nothing so turned back. Back at Hoi An we went to collect our clothes. Spent about an hour there trying them on and was very impressed with them. I had expected ...
Hoi An - Wonton Soup & "Same Same but different!"
This is a top pick! ... that is definitely not "Same same... but different" is the food and the wonton soup in particular. Food in Hoi An is known all around Vietnam with local specialties like White Rose and Cau Lao and both are really scrummy. But it was the wonton ...
Just Lovely!
This is a top pick! ... spent just wandering around and absorbing the scene, relaxing at the cafes, catching up on sleep, and shopping. Not only is Hoi An architecturally beautiful, its shops hold the most beautiful collection of crafts I have ever seen. Everywhere I walked I ...
Hoi An
This is a top pick! Hoi An is a Fabulous Town! Its small and the streets are narrow, most are just pathways,old traditional style buildings line the streets, they are painted yellow, the yellow is now fading - it just adds to the look and the laid back atmosphere of the ...
Champa Champa
This is a top pick! The Cham ruins at My Son are a nice daytrip from Hoi An. Unfortunately, everyone else seems to think so as well. They aren't very big or in fact very impressive, but the location is beautiful: lush forests, trickling streams, and a ...
Boat Ride in Hoi An
This is a top pick! We took a boat back from My Son. It's always nice to see river life. The fishing and casting of nets by hand is visually stunning and humbling. Watching how people eek out a living is one more opportunity to appreciate what you ...
Long hair, long life, long banana !!!!!
This is a top pick! ... are around at this time. Come 5:00 in the morning, the traffic starts as everyone is off to market. The worst thing though about Hoi An though, we are here during low season and as the whole town is geared up with tailors, we are being chased everywhere ...
Hit the beaches and northbound!!!
This is a top pick! ... Hill tribe areas of Nepal and the northern part of Thailand, but very Vietnamese. Top places to visit are definitely Mekong Delta, Hoi An and the Central Highlands.......The hotels are all good if you look in the right places and very cheap for what you ...
Tailoring and Beach Bumming
This is a top pick! Hoi An is a fantastic place to visit, 'Go There' is the best advice I can give. The town is a World Heritage Site, small and beautiful, lots of lovely old buildings. It is also the 'tailoring' capital of Vietnam. You can have any type of clothing, made to ...
Mascha's Birthday
This is a top pick! ... 'd met. We had a few games of pool, the girls beating the boys twice, even though the boys were cheating, before heading back to Hoi An to another pub that was full of westerners. The pub closed at about 2.00am. By this time I was really tired and just ...
Hospital in Hoi An
This is a top pick! NO ONE PANIC. We are ok. Lisa's fever is gone. I, however, have managed to hurt my foot on a routine 'jump off the bunker on the DMZ tour to impress all of the ladies' -- I think it went well. Lisa thinks that I might be mistaken. More to ...