Hoi An

By far our favourite place and most beautiful part of Vietnam has to be Hoi An.

Its a quaint little village maintained to have symmetrical ancient streets and buildings. Colourful and vibrant it is pedestrianised and completely flat we hired bicycles to cycle the streets around the markets and down to the beach.

The village is famous for tailored clothes, jewellery and shoes. Tim had some Yaley Couture clothes made and we also got some jewellery tailor made. We also found a corner shop with some excellent cookies!

As empty as the streets look... I did still manage to get myself run over by a fellow Vietnamese cyclist and with no help from Tim preceded to fall of my bike several times due to the initial knock to my confidence.

 The people in the village are so friendly and keen to show you their culture. This little boy came out to speak to us as we were cycling the paddy fields, he didn't speak English but hung around long enough for us to get a picture.

 This was.. unexpected. The tiny 'Buffalo-Man' had showed us that we could sit on the Water-Buffalo for a picture. We soon found ourselves thigh deep in questionable murky waters, sinking deeper and deeper, moving further and further from dry land. This is the only picture that hides Tim's distress enough for it to be disguised as enjoyment.

We felt that the dental care... or lack of it in Vietnam had to be documented.

Action-shot of Tim playing frisby whilst getting 3rd degree burns.