Hoi An And Hue

Next stop Hoi An. A great little town with a nice beach HUNDREDS of tailors. Wants anything made cheap, spend some time here and you'll have a bawl. Some people say there is some nice architecture here and that is why they come. I think their just closet tailor fiends...

Like everywhere else in Vietnam, the women are sun haters. This women demonstrates that well, can't leave the house without mask, full arm gloves and your cone hat! Don't worry, it's only 35 degrees outside.

Jillene loves to make friends. Believe it out not this women asked for her picture to be taken with Jillene. And no the shutter didn't snap at a bad time. This women exudes friendliness! Jillene, she warms everybody up...
Okay, we couldn't help ourselves. Jillene made a couple of these - and other things! And I made a couple shirts as well. When in Rome...Did a day trip out of Hoi An to Danang and China beach via Marble Mountain. This is Marble Marble Mountain. I'll give you 3 guesses what it is made of. The locals here take the marble and carve below. There are hundreds of shops with thousands of carvings in each shop. This is just a small sample of their skill. The stuff is amazing. If we only had a container that could follow us where ever we go and then be shipped home...
One of the temples on Marble Mountain. "No thank you, I don't want to buy some incense, can't you see I'm trying to pose for a picture"? Can't escape from it!

Onward to Hue. Nearly got stuck here because we arrived during the Vietnamese Liberation Holiday Long weekend. Had to give up on some bus tickets already purchased and buy new ones just to get out. Managed to see some sites before doing so though. Below is the Citadel, inside the Forbidden City, and a few thousand Vietnamese vacationers. A market in Hue. Pretty standard stuff for Vietnam. Big place, packed tightly with hundreds of stalls all selling the same thing.
Oh yeah, it rained here. Just a little though...
Did a river cruise that took us to a number of tombs built by past emperors. Below is one of them. Some great sights of local people along the , all the different boats and their daily activities.