Hoi An

We were up at 5:15am and out of the hotel at 5:30am on the way back to the train station. After joining many locals in the waiting room we were eventually let out onto the platform to wait for our 6:12am train to De Nang. We boarded the train and guess what…more old business men in our cabin. We climbed onto the top bunks and as it was only a 3 hour trip we didn’t worry about getting too comfy. We did manage to get a couple of hours sleep though as the men left us to go and have tea with their friends in someone else’s cabin…yay it wasn’t ours for once! So it was pretty good. They were probably the nicest people we have shared a cabin with. We got off pretty much exactly on time…it is very hard to know when to get off because there are no station names! We were greeted by someone to take us to the hotel and it was about an hours drive from De Nang to Hoi An where we were staying. We were greeted with some Vietnamese Tea and Coconut cakes that were delicious then shown to our room that was very nicely decorated with towels folded into swans that made a love heart in the middle and some weird koala toy thing on our bed…maybe to make us feel at home! We chilled for a little bit then headed out to go exploring. We didn’t have a map we just decided to walk around. We actually stumbled across the Old town that was very beautiful, it is an amazing place on the river with lots of boats. We had some breakfast and walked around some more. We booked a tour for tomorrow to go to My Son coz Rudi thought it was a funny name! We went to find an ATM and after what we thought was another run in with a dodgy ATM ( ended up ok) we found one that worked and even better one that had some money in it! I then dragged Rudi into a couple of tailors and we are both getting a winter jacket made, Rudi is getting two pairs of casual pants/shorts made and I’m getting two party dresses made…all so cheap its amazing! We then had some lunch at a really nice Vietnamese restaurant probably the best food we had eaten here. We walked across the river and looked around a bit and found some day spa places, we took their brochures and headed home to decide what we wanted to do. We had some coffee and hot chocolate with some more coconut cakes then decided to wander and pick a day spa for a massage. We found a street near the hotel that was full of day spas and restaurants so we had a few to pick from. We went into one and it looked great and very cheap so I got some well over due waxing done, a massage, pedicure and manicure and Rudi had a longer massage. Was very relaxing. After our few hours at the day spa we found a restaurant still open and had some dinner. Was nice again. We headed back to the hotel and off to bed as we had an early start for our tour tomorrow morning.