Thanh Binh II Hotel Hoi An

Ok so we were getting our big train journey up to Danang. It all went very smooth. Free taxi to the station, straight onto the train, arrived in Danang in the morning, got off the train and straight into a taxi to take us to our real destination of Hoi An about an hour away. Hoi An is the tailor capital of Vietnam and the main reason for coming here for tourists is to buy clothes. And thats what we intended to do. Got a hotel called the Thien Binh No 2. Loads of hotels in cities of Vietnam ha...

Retour a Hoi An, la ville ! Nous suivons de pret la meteo car le cyclone ayant frappe les Philippines se dirige vers la cote centrale du Vietnam ou nous sommes, mais pas de soucis, si ca se gate on s'echappe...
Aujourd'hui, c'etait shopping day pour Emma & Anthony !
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Back to Hoi An town ! We follow very close the weather forecast at the moment because the Typhon that hit the Phill...

Une journee "coince" a Hoi An a cause de la tempete tropicale plus au Sud, mais aujourd'hui fortes bourasques et lourde pluie etaient au Rendez-vous, donc Emma a decide, plus de shopping....

La riviere est sortie de son lit aujourd'hui mais ils ont l'habitude ici apparement !
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"Stu ck" in Hoi An for an extra day because of the tropical storm hitting down south. Strong Wind and heavy rain all day long, Emma decided ...

Moving off to Hoi An after visiting marble mountain at Da Nang and staying there for 2 nights. Renting bike on the next morning to go to Hai Van Pass. Visiting My Son ruin on the last morning before transiting to Hue.

We took the route less traveled to enter Vietnam from Northeastern Cambodia. The border cross in Yadow is a relatively new one and it took us a full day of travel just to get to a "real town" in Vietnam. Once we arrived in the small city of Pleiku, we realized no one spoke a word of English and there were no foreigners or tourists in sight. The barely-adequate listing of "useful Vietnamese phrases" in the back of our guide book helped buy us lunch, but we needed more than that to get us out o...

Well, i think we finally got ripped off on this bus journey! We paid 15dollars (a lot for vietnam) for what we were told was the luxury tourist bus (not!), it was a minibus with as usual no space whatsoever to put your feet, however on this occasion they had already filled the bus with boxes upon boxes of wet wipes, so your feet were literally in the air. That i could cope with until they filled the bus with so many people that me and matt were sharing one seat with our legs up in the air, th...

Thanh Binh II was great. Upon arrival, we 1st headed for Cua Dai Beach. On the 2nd day, we rented scooters and headed for our anticipated destination: Hai Van Pass. A journey of 180 km, taking us a total of 8 hours.

Hello everyone, it's been a long time writing and i will work my way backwards from today to when i last left the blog 3 weeks ago in Thailand. I have since traveled through Laos for about 10 days which is in between Thailand and Vietnam. I am currently in Hoi An, Vietnam. It's pretty much in the center of Vietnam and i am working my way to Saigon (also known now as Ho CHi Min City). The Tet holiday is 2 days away. It is Christmas and New Years rolled into one 10 day holdia with 3 super big d...

Got to Hoi An and straight away felt at home and relaxed in the place. Louise did a great job getting the best hotel yet - felt like a proper holiday for the first time in 8 weeks, nice big room, hot water, comfortable bed...and yes there was even a swimming pool...all for the princely sum of $15 a night - bargain. Hoi An is really small, it escaped all bombing during the French and American wars and for some reason has become a mecca for westerners who want to get tailor made clothing. It al...