Hoa Binh Hotel Hoi An

We took the night bus from Nha Trang to Hoi An and arrived at a reasonable time in the morning having had a good night's sleep; this was quite a relief after our last hideous night bus adventure from Saigon to Dalat! On our first morning we set out to choose a tailor to get our clothes made; there are literally hundreds of tailor shops in this small town, and it is 'the' place in Vietnam to get your custom-made clothes. We heard many mixed reviews of various shops in town, but many of these I...

We signed up for a half-day cooking class which included a trip to the local market (let by Hip-Hop, our Vietnamese guide), a boat ride, cooking lessons and a delicious meal of Vietnamese cuisine. Oh yeah, we also rented bicycles and found the beach for some relaxation. The first of many more beaches for us in Vietnam.

Our overnight bus journey from Nha Trang was about as good as any bus journey for a 6 ft man in a 5 ft 8 space can be. It would have been a whole lot better if the driver hadn't beeped so much, not sure why he needed to with so little traffic on the nighttime roads in the middle of the night. That was the downfall of the front row seats we got but we've been on worse bus journeys....Costa Rica to Panama last year? Ouch. This bus at least had fully reclining seats. Anyway if Hoi An is famous f...

Left Hue to Hoi An which is 4 hours away. Once we got here we soon foundout that me and scott wanted to stay here for a month so think we will be here till the 6th July. The hotel is good and it has a pool, we are paying 4 pounds a night. It so cheap here he he!
Hoi An is famous for it suit and clothes making so there is everyone trying to get you into there shop to see there work and make you buy something.

We got up and thought we would go do something fun today so we hired some bikes and went to Marble Mountain. This was 30K drive away. Was a good drive in the heat and once got there was offered to park are bikes for free in a shop if we buy something when we got back. Well this is the scam here but it doesnt hurt to look and sometime even part with some cash as it never alot.

Marble mountian is rocks just sticking out of the ground in the middle of a flat plaine. They have put temples...

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Well another sleeper bus later and we're in Hoi An. We're getting a little more ruthless when it comes to sleeper buses and basically ignoring where we're told to go and just finding the best beds to bunk down in and glaring at anyone who comes near with a look of wanting to take them. Tan did get a little distressed at one point as the toilet was broken and when the bus driver pulled over for a break it was in the middle of an open field with no cover for miles around! Naturally sh...

Moving south to spend our last two days in Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh. We attended a cooking class yesterday and had some clothes made here in Hoi An. The market by the river is great especially the fish market. A 5km walk to the beach and a swim in the ocean was a good way to begin ANZAC day. Pleased to hear it is raining in South Australia (typical for ANZAC day).

We managed to find a hotel in Hoi An that offered us a very nice room with en suit wet room and it had a swimming pool! Unfortunately the price for this was being woken up very early each morning with building work on the top floor. After some weighing up, we decided it was too much work to re-pack and move, so we were just going to live with it. Hoi An is one of the most unusual towns I think I have ever seen. When we took a walk around we found that at least half of the businesses were tail...

We arrived in Hoi An after a bumpy overnight coach ride from Nha Trang but managed to get a few hours kip. Once settled in our hotel we hired bikes and went for a bit of cruise around town. Hoi An is a quaint little riverside town which has many similarities to Pingyao in China only without the pollution. It has many cobblestone backstreets filled with boutiques and cafes with a large market selling items from food to clothes and everything in between. There are a plethora of restaurants incl...

Arrived in the morning after a very bumpy trip and we set off with the aussie couple we met to find accommodation. Stopped for a 'deep fried' pancake for breakfast. Stumbled across the accommodation we had been recommended. Met a young tout 'Yum', who said his sister T made the best clothes in Hoi An. Walking around exploring the town we again found Yum and visited his sisters shop. Two hours later after looking through fashion mags we had ordered suits, shoes, shirts and leather jackets bet...