So, we were booked onto an overnight bus to Hoi An, the bus was suppose to leave at 7pm but didn't end up leaving till gone 9, the bus company were completely useless! We finally made it to Hoi An and luckily we were dropped off in town so we could walk to find somewhere to stay. Most hotels were expensive but we managed to find one that was just within budget, it even had a pool.

Our first task in Hoi An was breakfast. Once we had dropped off our bags we headed straight in to the centre and found a great little cafe. After stuffing ourselves with cheese and ham croissants and fresh fruit we had a look round the old town. This is a world heritage site so the buildings have been preserved well. There are lots of old French Colonial houses which are all painted yellow. We went in to Tan Ky House which is 200 years old, it has housed seven generations of the same family who have preserved it well. We were welcomed in and given some tea, the young lady explained different parts of the house. It was very small and we could only look at the downstairs, it had Japanese and Chinese influences in the design. There were lots of beautifully carved details and Chinese style lamps, there was a small courtyard in the middle to let light in as there aren't many windows. In the back of the house there were markings that showed the water level when it floods during the rainy season, the highest one went right up to the ceiling, in the winter they moved all the furniture from downstairs through a hatch on to the first floor.

From here we continued to wander around the old town looking at all the beautiful buildings. As the Tet holiday (lunar new year) was coming up they had Chinese lanterns hung all over the town. That evening we went back in to the old town to see all of the lights which were stunning. We also noticed that everyone seemed to be burning all their papers in the streets, we were unsure why but it must have been something to do with the new year.
The following day we went back to the old town and visited the museum, there wasn't much to see other than broken pottery and a few canons.

There wasn't much to do here but the town was beautiful, there were hundreds of cafes to relax in and we found some great food. Most people who visit Hou An get some clothes made, there are hundreds of tailors here and they are meant to be the best in Vietnam. If we weren't travelling we would of had some suits and dresses tailored but we didn't fancy carrying them round for another 5 months.