Hoi An

After a 16 hour night train ride from Ha Noi to Danang and getting harassed by different taxi drivers at at the train station, we escape to the city streets trying to find a cheaper taxi that would take us to the public bus station somewhere else in town. We got super lucky and a bus picked us up on the side of the road. Dropped us off again two minutes later so we could catch the same bus, but in the other direction. Finally after a long travel day we made it to the historic city of Hoi An.

Hoi An is super nice and kept up. Someone must really be taking care and organizing the old town part of town. It's motor-free, what a relief!
It must be the world's capital of tailored clothes stores. No joke, about 3 out of 4 stores are selling custom suits and dresses. On our last day as we were biking out to the beach we actually got side tracked and ordered some clothes for our selves. On the way back from the beach our pants & skirt were ready to be picked up. We got pretty lucky with our custom orders, they mixed up the colors and all, but in the end it all fit just fine and even looked all right : )

The beach was great with it's palm trees for much appreciated shade and the locals set up little mini "restaurants", which were a bunch of little plastic chairs (kids size) and a food cart, selling noodle soup.
The water in the South China Sea is warm like a bath tub. We were hanging out in the water for hours. SWEET.
*christi