hoi An

We arrived in hoi An 6.30 am having slept the night on the bus, it was fine. We found a place to stay and were out in the beautiful old town by 9.30.
What a contrast to Nha trang, it's a small quaint town with the ancient city having French style houses over 150 years old, we walked a tour mapped out in the lonely planet which took 5 hours, it was stunning and also has a beautiful river front.
Last night was full moon and once a month when that happens the whole town has coloured lanterns every where including huge ones on the river, and lots of small candles in paper holders for sale that you can float on the river.
It was so so lovely to see, there were so many people out and they are so much friendlier here. We had a lovely night


One of the shop fronts complete with old lady

the shops were selling art, crafts and beautiful silk scarfs and bags at a fraction of the price we would usually pay,raw silk is produced here, there are also tailors on every corner making clothes



the river along the front of the old city

Still working wel past retirement age

hoi an is beautiful, a quaint old town with houses 150 years old built in French style
All the roads in the old town look like this

We were invited into one of the houses to look around and there was this lovely 96 year old lady living there

As we were walking through the market a girl approached me and upon inspection of my upper lip, called me a monkey, and grabbed me saying 'no pain, no gain, no monkey', and procceeded to take me down an alley way and behind some curtains and started to pluck out the hairs with thread!
Cheeky cow, lifted my arm up and said 'oh my god monkey' and started to exctract some of them - it bloody  hurts.

I got the mirror as  I had to inspect, meanwhile Frans was thinking it was hilarious and taking pics of it all.

Men at work