Highlights of Hoi An

We spent a few days in Hoi An after Koh Samui, and since I already wrote in detail about Hoi An last year, I'll just put a few highlight photos here.  :)

Our room at the Anantara Hoi An Resort, cute little elephant made from
towels, and yellow mums EVERYWHERE.  :)

The food market in Hoi An.

Walking through it, your nose is assaulted with ever-changing scents with
each breath, from the sickly rotten smell of durian fruit, to acrid smell of
the fresh fish, to the delicious smell of the twice-fried doughnuts that are a
common street food here.

Fun fact: at night after the market closes down, as we walked back to our
resort, we got to see large cockroaches and HUGE rats pawing through the
leavings.  Needless to say, we didn't buy any food here.  :D

Drinks have little flowers in them at Mango Mango, a
restaurant across the river in An Hoi where we sat on
the balcony overlooking the night market.

There was a food festival going on while we were there, so the town was
decked out with even more lanterns than usual!

We found the tourist-trap Handicraft Market, which was basically a big
"fleecing station," but they did have machines (not running while we were
there) showing how to make silkworm pods (the yellow things in the basket)
into silk, then the silk thread into fabric.  Wish the machines had been
running, that would have been interesting!

Decked out in full sun gear - I didn't want to put on
sunscreen and then go get fitted for the clothes I was
getting tailored, so I bought a hat and scarf.  :)

Sunset over the river.

Michele at Yaly Tailor surrounded by no less than five people to fit her
custom made shoes.  :D