Motorcycle diaries - Vietnam East coast continued: Hoi An

Today we came to a famous silk city of Hoi An (not that I knew about its existence before our journey). It's lovely - many restaurants on the river, dark streets lighted just with Chinese paper lanterns, where local people play mah-jong and some instruments I couldn't identify... There're silk cloth and fabric shops everywhere, since it's an old silk trading city. Very nice. Lots of tourists as well (probably this place is indicated in the Loney Planet travel guide :)

We let the candles float on the river, and it looked so romantic - dark river full of shimmering candle lights in the colourful paper flowers. We also took a short ride on the old wooden boat, and city looked beautiful in the darkness, under the almost full moon, and with all those shimmering lights around...

To say the truth, we were really happy to come here, and finally get our pizzas and glass of Bordeaux wine! In the last 2 days the only food available were the variations of noodle soup. Funny, but we're truly children of civilization. Not that we didn't like it, being in all those local places, being the only Western people and trying out only local things. We did enjoy it! But then, when you want to have your pizza or burger, and it's just not there, you appreciate it so much more, when you finally get it :) Our first stop in Hanoi will be in McDonalds or Burger King, I assume :)

Hoi An