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Published: October 9th 2009
So when we finally get to the border I go to get my entry stamp for 'Nam and it takes the guy 15 minutes of looking at my passport to finally give me the stamp that they gave about 35 other people, I am guessing I was supposed to give him money at that point, which I did not... nonetheless I am in! Yay.
When we arrived in Hue, it didn't feel like a place I wanted to spend a couple days so I stayed on, paid a few more kip and made my way to Da Nang. From there I took the local bus (read city bus) to Hoi An which is about an hour away. The first hotel I went to, I took. It was the one I read from my guidebook. My room actually had more beds than I needed but it was only for me. I truly don't understand their thought process on that one. It was a good deal.
Hoi An was actually pretty affected by Typhoon Ketsana. Some buildings along the river had as much as 6 feet of water, but less than a week after the storm barreled through the town about
80% of shops were open again. Granted there were power outages everyday, multiple times a day, but otherwise everything was fine.
TheFull Moon Festival made its way around while I was in town and everyone is in the streets in chinese dragon costumes doing stunts and performing for donations. This went on for two nights. It was fun to see and it kept the town alive past the 8-9pm that it would have otherwise gone to bed.
There are about 700 tailor shops in Hoi An and you can get practically anything made so I had a jacket and an costume made. It was fun to have done and it's worth looking around before you choose a shop. I used Diem Diem, a nice woman who has a very lively personality!
I checke dout Cua Dia Beach, and it was pretty nice. I didn't really go into the water, just sat around for a couple hours. There were workers out hauling the sand off of the roads back to the beach. It made me think of a manual snowplow operation for the beach!
It's still sunny, about 85-90/28-33. Love it!
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Marie Ospina
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Fabulous pictures, especially the temples and foods. As I said before I wish to visit the heart and soul of Indochina one day, if I had a bucket list it would be number one. Number two would be the surrounding boundaries. You learn so much through traveling and meet wonderful people. Have fun for me.