If you think that a typhoon can be very bad and that could probably ruin your life ... you'd better come to this quite place to understand something about life.
I arrived yesterday to HOI AN, a lovely little town on the South coast of Vietnam, protected by UNESCO and you can easily understand why, just walking in the narrow streets of the Old District.
You can breath history, see wonderful and ancient temples, old houses full of stories... but you can also see the disaster that the typhoon of last week has left and all the marks of mud and dust that are still very alive all around the city and especially around the river area. Among all of this, the shocking thing is that all locals have worked days and nights to clean everything and they keep smiling even if their business have been fucked up by the flood!
As the sun is very hot down here, you can rent a bycicle (or a moto if you are lazy!!) and ride for 5km before getting to the faboulous beach, white sand and full of plam trees like in the Carribean... and with very warm water! Incredible relax after the ride and after the sightseeing!
For sure you will be captured by one of the tailors showing their hand made suites and dresses and shorts and typical asian dresses with so many different materials and silks and colours... but with a very cheap price (and I am talking about around €10 for a dress!!) you can really full your packpack of new clothes to bring back home or with hand made sandals made of leather.
Then, nothing better than a typical Vietnamese dinner by the river... there are a lot of places where to try local specialties apart from the loved noodles and rice... :) and you can also choose like to me to stay in a very typical one open air with just few wooden tables and used sticks! But the taste has been one the best I have ever tried here!
So... if you will ever decide to come to visit Vietnam, do not skip this beatiful little town!
You will be sad to leave... like I am!
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