Hoi an is known for two things. First, its adorable. Second, it's got a lot of tailors--literally hundreds, in a town of about 50,000. My school wardrobe has been getting increasingly worn over the last few years and I tore out the elbow on my favorite jacket, so I figured I would get some clothes while I'm here. I went in, chose fabric, a style...

Hoi An is my favourite place in Asia so far, a quaint little riverside town that used to be an international port so there is lots of Chinese and Japanese influence visible in the buildings. This town also proved to be slightly dangerous for me as there are over 300 tailor shops where you can literally get anything you want custom made, which na...

Arrived in Hoi An at around 7am after a wierd night on the sleeper bus. Our driver stopped for a 30 minute dinner around 1 hour into the trip. In true fashion he decided not to say anything, walk into the roadhouse and sit down and order several dishes and drinks. Most people had not long dozed off to sleep with the lights off, a few got off to ...

Well decided to give the long coach journeys a miss for a bit and so we flew to Hoi An from Saigon and said goodbye to Robin and Ash. The flight was only 1 hour which is great. We have also booked a flight to Hanoi to save some travelling time. Hotels nice we got the wrong one though, Robin and Ash recommended the An Hoi, I think our taxi driver...

So it's taken me awhile to finally add a new blog here. I'm going to catch up city by city. So I left Hanoi and made my way to Hoi An. It was a 16 hour bus ride, which I did in a sleeper bus laying beside a stranger. I basically slept most of the way, and got in early afternoon to Hoi An. I then went to the hotel where the English friends I've m...

We spent two days and two nights in Hoi An - without doing anything spectacular. It is a town - as it seems to me solely for getting clothes made. Its a women's paradise and that was reflected with the amount of women walking around excitedly. The place is covered with tailor shops. Carleon was in her element, when we arrived me and Barry hit th...

Hoi An is another World Heritage City. It's one of the only cities in Vietnam not destroyed in the wars. So lots of temples (mostly Chinese it seemed) and 300 year old houses remain as do lots of French Colonial buildings. Hoi An was the biggest port in SE Asia for hundreds of years and many cultures and peoples traded here. It makes for cultura...

If Tam was a buddhist and believed in the seven levels of heaven then Hoi An would definately be one level for her... Hoi An is the tailoring mecca of Vietnam. Over 200 tailors in a town about the size of Cooma (and that's just the clothes tailors). We have spent the last three days going from clothes tailor to clothes tailor to shoe tailor to c...

Welp, I've found my favorite place in Vietnam. Okay, okay...I haven't even been to the beach yet...so I can't really say that this will remain my favorite place...but it would be pretty hard to beat this place. Hoi An is amazing!! I found out in Hue that I didn't get offered the job I wanted in Oman. After mulling things over I decided to put of...

After having some success with the Open Tour Buses, Anita and John board an overnight one for the 12 hour ride to Hoi An. Departing at 7:00pm (well, really it was more like 8:30pm)... our duo spend a practically sleepless and uncomfortable night on the bus, and arrive in Hoi An at 7:00am the next morning. They slogged around town for 45 minute o...