Hoi An...again

I really like this place and I think I'll definitely be back here. Had the refitting of the suit this morning and it still needs to be let out a bit :( .Hopefully they'll have everything sorted by tomorrow as were leaving then.

The streets are untouched here, the buildings themselves in the old town are protected and not allowed to be modified without permission. We done the walking tour of the city and took in our surroundings. We got some ginger flakes off a seller at the local market: "Very good for throat" I'm told, it sure felt like it works when I had one!

Parts of the town are still flooded but generally only the part around the river. Oh and the jar at the top is snake wine! Yum...

Hoi An

Arrived in Da nang and negotiated a taxi fare to Hoi An, it was probably the first time that Taxi Men over here wanted to use the meter, but we got a fair price. During our journey to Hoi An he picked up his "friend" while she was nice and everything I felt she was trying to sell us things, she asked did we have a tailor, hotel, are we going shopping, etc..needless to say she got nowhere, as we heard there's a lot of tailors in Hoi An that cut corners (pun intended).

We sorted our accommodation in a middle of the road hotel, Hoi An is the Tailor capital of Vietnam and the city is absolutely littered with tailors. I got myself tailor made: 2 shirts, a suit, 2 trousers and a jacket, Tina got a dress, jacket and some jeans made up. We must be keeping some poor bloke up all night as they told us to come back tomorrow. Other than that we took a walk down the busy streets and treated ourselves to a nice meal after a hard day shopping.

Flight to Hoi An

We flew to Da Nang this morning, instead of 11 hours on a bus it only took us an hour flight. We heard the bridge had been repaired but we had already booked our flights and to be honest we were glad of it. The aircraft looked like something from the 60's with 2 fine propellers to boot. The flight itself was hassle free.