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Location Date Hue 1330214400 Hội An 
1330128000 Ho Chi Minh City 1328745600 Ho Chi Minh 1328659200 -
Location Date Sat, 25 February 2012 1330157727 Fri, 24 February 2012
1330070054 Thu, 23 February 2012 1329982685 Wed, 22 February 2012 1329894792
Every hotel in Hoi An provides bikes for a dollar a day. ,However, as we experienced in Laos, they only seem to be the old school girl variety. Riding around the outskirts of town provided an opportunity to see the the real community go about their everyday life. Whether it was squatting down working in the rice paddies, praying in a temple or playing a game of soccer, people were just getting on with living life, oblivious to anyone else looking in.
The ride (or run if you're Ash) from our hostel on the outskirts of Hoi An to China beach is only 4km. Coming from Australia which has thousands of miles of vast sandy beaches, you get a little fussy when confronted by another one. But the beach is actually really nice and it was great to feel sand between our toes again and take time out to lie on the beach and chill out. For Adam (being an avid surfer), it was a surprise to actually see a little ripple of a wave there. However, the novelty of surfing the beach like the scene in Apocalypse Now was not going happen. There was only one proper surfboard for hire in the town and it was a real dungga of a thing, plus the waves were tiny.
With every day, Hoi An seems a more lovable town. With beaches, rivers, beautiful architecture, great people and tasty cheap food, whats not to love?
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Erma PhilNovember 30, 2011 Often people coplamin about this scam' but it's not really a scam'- I am sure you can buy the Vietnam News English edition somewhere in Hoi An for 6,000 dong.. but who knows where? At the Post Office I think.. the paper sellers actually buy the papers which are transported from Danang 30kms away for 7,000 dong or such and they make a living reselling the papers to tourists.. much like street pedlars buy pineapples at the market and sell them on the street. Vietnamese don't need an english newspaper tourists do.. so a few young boys make a living and feed their families by selling a few papers each day and they make about $1 per paper.. hardly a scam in my opinion more like a delivery fee. I realise others would disagree.- and sometimes those boys can be annoying.. but what I really think is a scam is the way petrol stations back home in Australia charge $5 for a loaf of bread, when the same loaf is about $2 at the supermarket.. something to think about..