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Hoi An Slideshow
Hoi An
Travel Blogs from Hoi An, Vietnam
Bike to the beach
This is a top pick! ... returning to the shop to get their purchases altered. Around 11 am, a few of us rented bicycles and braved the ruthless streets of Hoi An to go to the beach. Actually, truth be told, the traffic here isn't too bad, in comparison with other places. ...
Celine Johnson has a nice ring to it
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Tailored Threads And Boozing With The Locals
This is a top pick! ... at night the resturants there are much better value. I spent an afternoon wandering the narrow alleyways taking pictures of Honda Chaleys. Hoi An is a girls paradise. They have loads and loads of tailors that will make you nice dresses and things. Any ...
Adventures in Cottons, Cashmeres and Silks
This is a top pick! Hoi An has a beautiful little old town centre with a river running through it. Remarkably, it saw little devastation during what the Vietnamese call the American War. And now the tourists have found it. Hoi An's specializes is renting ...
ooh, suits you sir
This is a top pick! First of all, I'm trying to keep these shorter, so I'm just gonna but the basic details down here now. Hoi An is a pretty little place, tiny french colonial-esque streets lined with tailors, bars and other assorted shops. The town itself also has ...
A husband's nightmare
This is a top pick! Hoi An is famous for its tailors. In fact, Hoi An is an entire town of tailors. Over 300 shops take up most of the retail space in this charming little town. It's quite interesting to observe the effect this concentration of shops has on ...
Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... played some pool in one of the bars with the British guy I met in Hue, whom I also bumped into in Hoi An. Everybody follows the same route in Vietnam; the country is so narrow that you don't have much choice where to go unless you get off the beaten track ...
Hoi An & My Son Sanctuary.
This is a top pick! Slowly, slowly, slowly, comes to mind when thinking about Hoi An. Sometimes the slower pace was welcome - but not always. We took a Vietnam airlines flight to Danang and had an organized transfer to take us to the ancient UNESCO World Heritage city of ...
Hot, humid Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... other by a dog. The bridge is very much in use, people cross it as part of their daily routine, and it embodies perfectly Hoi An’s charm, historical perspective and modern day usage. The town does not seem to realise that it’s a living museum. ...
Getting brave/stupid
This is a top pick! ... for a hotel without. The hunger and the desire for a beer seemed more appealing than continuing to traipse around the streets of Hoi An and bartering over accommodation rates, which we all deemed to be too high, in every pool-boasting hotel we walked ...
Lovin' the Nam
This is a top pick! ... hell, and the Vietnamese people have had more than their share of it. From hell to heaven, and the resort mecca of Hoi An, where we now recreate with abandon. This place is Thailand meets the French Riviera, with fragrant flowers bursting forth from ...
Where Is My Sun!
This is a top pick! ... Hoi An and failing to find the manager of the tour company who was conveniently 'away' we stopped for some huge tiger prawns (Hoi An being a seafood haven), for less money than you could buy a prawn sandwich back home, before deciding to turn into a ...
Why did Tilly not have more clothes made?
This is a top pick! ... have purchased a whole new wardrobe of tailored outfits and shoes for every occasion (I know this because she is still talking about Hoi An, 10months on). Tilly did however get a jacket made for her costing just US$20. The material chosen was a dark ...
Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... ) overlooking the rice paddies for $12 a night. It's a small family owned hotel and very friendly. Hoi An is the clothes/shoes making capital of Vietnam and probably south east Asia altogether. Tailor after tailor line the streets, road after road after ...
Yes, Finally A New Outfit!
This is a top pick! ... it's the only option....but it was quickly forgotten over a great dinner in one of the many cute restaurants. Overall, Hoi An was our favorite town in Vietnam. We recommend: - Phuoc An Hotel - the best service we've had so far - Eating Cao Lau ...
Happy Birthday Bo
This is a top pick! ... months of travel in front of me, I held back from buying suits even though I could of posted them quite cheaply from Bangkok. Hoi An has much to offer the tourist and I could of easily stayed here 1 week. The restaurants are outstanding and the locals ...
Stitched up a treat
This is a top pick! ... number of elaborate congregation/assembly halls and temples. These along with some private houses and museums provide the substance of historic Hoi an tourism. However, all this seems to take something of a back seat to the thousand and one tailors, ...
Stevo Delivers the Sunshine
This is a top pick! ... by Greg Norman and Colin Monty. The road left the coast and we followed it slightly inland to find the promised land of Hoi An. On this two mile stretch of road we passed many white tourists on rented day bicycles. They looked quite ...
Sunbathing and Shoe Shopping
This is a top pick! ... A few dips in The South China Sea, reading, listening to music, burger lunch, and that’s how the day went, Back in Hoi An we enjoyed afternoon cakes in another dream café and continued to stroll the back streets of the charming old town. A nervous ...
Ouch my wallet part 2
This is a top pick! ... the boat was much better than we expected after our previous uncomfortable trips. We were given white rose for lunch which is a Hoi An speciality a bit like uncooked ravioli but Pip seemed to like it. We stopped at a Carpentry Island which turned out ...
Whizzing round SE Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... bunker (sorry film ran out), tho' not so much going on in the town itself. Got back on the bus down the east coast to Hoi An, which is a historic town, jammed full of tailor shops. Also had a few pagodas, Japanes bridge, and sights to see. Quite a lot ...
Heading south
This is a top pick! ... the Vietnam War. Hue was a nice town with good food that would be worth spending longer in. However, we continued south to Hoi An to spend a few days relaxing. Hoi An is full of quaint little alleys and beautiful old buildings. Unfortunately it also ...
I'm an impulsive shopper
This is a top pick! (Nicole) Hoi An is known for the great tailoring shops. I wasn't sure about getting custom clothes made for me, but being an impulsive shopper i got 4 items and now have too many clothes in my backpack. I don't even think I'll wear the pants and dress, ...
Allow me to Introduce you to My Son
This is a top pick! ... simply taking the piss. This afternoon I sat down and decided what I was going to do with the rest of mny time here in Vietnam. Hoi An is an obvious anagram of Hanoi, but it looks as if this is as close to the capital as I'm going to get. I'm not too ...
Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... day time and going out for nice meals in the evening it was lovely to get a rest from all the sightseeing in the big cities. Hoi An is also famous for dressmaking - you can have pretty much anything you want made here for cheap, clothes, shoes, bags and ...
Hoi An
This is a top pick! ... to hotel so we jumped off, took our bags and went in search of a place nearby, ignoring the touts and moto drivers! The hotels in Hoi An are of a very high standard, easily the most luxurious of any we have stayed in so far. Found a plush place with a ...