Hoi An from Nha Trang

I meet a Vietnamese guy (Trung) on the sleeper bus between Nha Trang and Hoi An. Trung knows a local girl, Hai. Hai works in her family’s tailor shop and her best friend, Trang, is the manager of a hotel. The tour operator at the hotel is Vuong (English name King) and the final person in my new posse is Hien, a bartender at a very popular bar just out of the old town.

We grab breakfast in the morning, I play tourist during the day and we catch up for dinner consisting of sting ray and fresh fish in the DIY burrito style I tried in Nha Trang.

Japanese covered bridge, one of the many sights in the old town of Hoi An.

Hoi An old town is a tourist oriented town and as such everyone you see in the old town is trying to sell you something. Walking past a row of eateries when you’re not hungry can be annoying, every tout will ask you to eat in their restaurant. I can’t remember the number of times I’ve said Khong Gam On (No thank you).

The city is famed for its collection of tailors, it seems that every second shop can get you measured for a suit, one day later the suit is made. A suit generally goes for 100USD, a shirt 15USD and the quality is amazing, you would easily pay ten times the price back home for the clothes.