Day 9, 10 & 11 - Hoi An
Arrived in Hoi and our bags were wet from the bus ride. Awesome. Checked into the hotel which is on Cua Dai beach. (one of the beaches known as china beach where soldiers played during the American-Vietnam War) Unfortunately weather has been overcast (20 degrees), also the hotel has rubbish everything (breakfast, polite staff etc) Apart from that, we love Hoi an, got clothes tailor made (suits, dresses, shoes) day trip to my sun - return trip by boat, enjoying the tourist strip and got a bargain with some genuine lacoste polo shirts.
A great market set up except walking through the covered market the smell of room temperature meat and alive livestock can be a bit overpowering. One time Jess stopped midway and I had to prod her back while dry reaching to move her along without opening my mouth - its quite cramped moving through the market and I have no idea how people sit next to the meat all day without gagging.
Food, particularly seafood, has been great here, a highlight was a 6 course seafood meal at blue dragon (+3 tiger beer long necks = $15) also took a cooking class there on 3rd day. After 2 nights at agribank beach resort we changed to glory hotel for our 3rd night. No regrets - better everything (location, food, staff, room, clealiness, wifi) except $1au more.
On the 3rd day me and Jess were picking up our new clothes and 1 of the sales girls shows me $2 Australian and asks me if I'll change it to (40,000) dong. I say yes. About 3 seconds later another girl pulls out $5 Australian and all of a sudden I an a currency exchange with no fees..... Think I got scammed there and I'm probably not the first Aussie they tried that trick on. But the girls were charming and Jess got cranky when they kept patting my backside and telling me how good I looked in my new suit/vest combo. $7 Australian up - 140,000VND down - but self esteem sky high.
Apart from that we have eaten street food, and drank the very cheap street beers (only took over a week to build up to that) and I have given into the Oreo's (American biscuit) temptation that every street seller has packets of.
Bus to DaNang and then a day train trip to Nha Trang tomorrow.
A great market set up except walking through the covered market the smell of room temperature meat and alive livestock can be a bit overpowering. One time Jess stopped midway and I had to prod her back while dry reaching to move her along without opening my mouth - its quite cramped moving through the market and I have no idea how people sit next to the meat all day without gagging.
Food, particularly seafood, has been great here, a highlight was a 6 course seafood meal at blue dragon (+3 tiger beer long necks = $15) also took a cooking class there on 3rd day. After 2 nights at agribank beach resort we changed to glory hotel for our 3rd night. No regrets - better everything (location, food, staff, room, clealiness, wifi) except $1au more.
On the 3rd day me and Jess were picking up our new clothes and 1 of the sales girls shows me $2 Australian and asks me if I'll change it to (40,000) dong. I say yes. About 3 seconds later another girl pulls out $5 Australian and all of a sudden I an a currency exchange with no fees..... Think I got scammed there and I'm probably not the first Aussie they tried that trick on. But the girls were charming and Jess got cranky when they kept patting my backside and telling me how good I looked in my new suit/vest combo. $7 Australian up - 140,000VND down - but self esteem sky high.
Apart from that we have eaten street food, and drank the very cheap street beers (only took over a week to build up to that) and I have given into the Oreo's (American biscuit) temptation that every street seller has packets of.
Bus to DaNang and then a day train trip to Nha Trang tomorrow.
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