Wanting to venture a little of of town today, we decided to hire a bicycle. Tom rode the whole way with Rachael sat above the back wheel in true Asian style. We rode east out of Hoi An for about 5 flat kilometres and arrived in the neighbouring town, which had lots of expensive hotels and the most stunning beach we had ever seen. We stayed in the town for a little while but as only Vietnamese could put their bikes anywhere near the beach (forcing tourists to pay ...

Hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, we had an early start this morning as we wanted to do the walking tour around the town, which is recommended in our travel guide. The book suggests it should take 1-5 hours depending on how many of the sites you stop off at on the way.After an hour, we completed the walk, only stopping to take pictures at the buildings and monuments instead of paying the admission fee to enter. We headed for some lunch and as there is little...

Hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, we had an early start this morning as we wanted to do the walking tour around the town, which is recommended in our travel guide. The book suggests it should take 1-5 hours depending on how many of the sites you stop off at on the way.After an hour, we completed the walk, only stopping to take pictures at the buildings and monuments instead of paying the admission fee to enter. We headed for some lunch and as there is little...

Hoping to avoid the worst of the heat, we had an early start this morning as we wanted to do the walking tour around the town, which is recommended in our travel guide. The book suggests it should take 1-5 hours depending on how many of the sites you stop off at on the way.After an hour, we completed the walk, only stopping to take pictures at the buildings and monuments instead of paying the admission fee to enter. We headed for some lunch and as there is little...

After a nightmare night last night, we got up early to find the hotel hadn't stolen our passports, mildly surprised we checked out the dirty and overpriced "hotel" and set off walking to catch the local bus to Hoi An. After half an hour, we found the bus stop and within minutes the bus arrived. Before we set off, we checked our travel guide which said the bus journey should cost 8,000 dong, so we thought even if we got charged 10,000 it wouldn't be too ...