HOI AN

After a very long sleepless night on the bus, we got dropped off at the bus station then got a taxi to our hotel, 'Hai Au'. We got there at 7am and although we couldn't check into our room until 1pm, we were upgraded to a superior room with a computer which we allowed into straight after our 'on the house' breakfast!

Mrs F was overjoyed that there was finally a computer to update our blog and spent all morning doing so. After we had chilled out for a bit, we took a walk to get some lunch at a place that Mr F had looked up on his trusty trip adviser called 'Dingo Deli'. It took quite a while to walk to but was 'well worth it'. Mrs F had the best ever greek salad with marinated chicken skewers.....de'lish!!

That night we took a walk into the old town which was really pretty at night with all the lanterns and the whole place was very French colonial. 

Mr demonstrating the shower.....also made for a very little person!

The boys with our welcome swan towels and rose petals.....

      Outside our hotel......

 A local performing arts act on the town

Lanterns being made to buy and set off down the river.

HOI AN 

DAY2:

Our third organised tour to the 'My Son Ruins'. They were once temples hidden in the jungle that the French discovered and then later the Americans bombed because they thought it was where the VC army were hiding. But they were wrong! All they did was destroy what were once beautiful buildings. What make the temples so unique, is that even today expert architects don't know how they were built as the bricks don't have any sort of cement or bonding between them.

 The bricks showing no bonding between them....any ideas???

 Sand script writing, centuries old.....no one knows yet what it translates....

One of the temples after the bombing, currently being restored.


After the ruins we were taken to the river where we got a boat back to Hoi An town. We had a free lunch on the boat of rice and veggies and stopped off at a wood carving place....

 Mr F eating lunch on the boat...

      Views form the boat....

 Water buffalo with her baby cooling off in the river

Carving the wood for sculptures....

 Shaping shells for decorating plate and furniture.....

 Mr F showing the water level that floods the land during the rainy season....

A plate and ship made from shells....

When we got back to the hotel from our trip, we hired push bikes and took the boys down to the beach which was about 6miles away. We stopped for a drink on the river on the way back before going back to Dingo Deli's for another delicious greek salad and chicken skewers :-)

                                  Our drink stop by the river...

 Mrs F with her fresh orange juice in a glass pot!

                                    

Mrs F enjoying her chicken skewer salad

All in all, a good day :-)