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The 10 hour overnight bus from Nha Trang to Hoi An was very unpleasant, by far the worst experience yet...my ( karli's) bed was two feet too short for me, the air con was blasting, the bus drivers were smoking and the bathroom was the worst one yet! Anyways we made it to Hoi An by 5am, but couldn't check into our hotel until 930am so we went for a walk down to the river and around Old Town. We were literally the only two people up this early so it was nice to go for a walk without hearing honk honk honk beep beep beeeeeep every two seconds!!
The heart of the city is Old Town which is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. The area is full of narrow lanes lined with tailor shops, restaurants and bars. At night it becomes even more beautiful as hundreds of lanterns light up the streets. A perfect place to spend the next 5 days :)
We read about a vegan restaurant in town so we set off to find it and along the way we ran into Kevin and two other girls from the group! We made plans to meet up later and once again the group was back together. We had some beers and shot some pool at a bar called Before and Now. The owner who is also a local artist had some very cool paintings on the wall.
On our second day we rented bicycles and rode them to the beach, we didn't realize how strong the sun was this day and both got bad sunburns. In the evening while the rest of the group was doing a cooking class we met up with Kevin and his local friends for some dinner and drinks. We had so much fun chatting and drinking wine in one of the classiest bars in Hoi An as rats scurried across the floor...the highlight of the night - tripling back to the hotel on Kevin's bike.
Despite being slightly hung over and in pain from our sunburns we got out of bed at 830am to walk over to Kevin's hotel to say goodbye once again to the group. We are hoping to see them again in Hanoi or Laos...its crazy the connection you can make with some people in such a short amount of time! We head back to bed until 4pm, get some food and watch movies for the rest of the night.
No trip to Hoi An is complete without getting something tailor made! We spent a morning shopping and picking out fabric for a couple of dresses and pick them up the following day... Unfortunately, they ran out of the fabric Cynthia picked out and she left empty handed. A bit of a disappointment but that's ok, shes been getting other good pieces along the way. A few alterations to mine and it fit perfectly!
Next stop, Hanoi! Save the Cat Ba!
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sam so did you go to the vegan resteraunt?
Karli Yes! It was pretty good food, we ended up going twice actually.