Thank you for traveling to Vietnam, including HoiAn. Most important TIP: should make friends with a local to get effective hints to explore the new destination. (you should make friend with a student because he/she has free time and willingness to go with you to introduce about their country with foreign friends, now need to pay them for guilding, just to invite them food is OK) From the clip, I have to say, you are not good at preparing for the journey. You don't know what you should focus on in each location when you decide to come there. HoiAn is famous firstly because of its World Heritage value of construction and cultural issues related. That means you will see the beauty of the buildings over a long time coming from its history as an international trading port from 16th century with the cultural exchange of Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and the affect of French colonization time here. Because you have to come into those old building, you have to pay a small fee to contribute to the preservation work (I think the ticket is 6 USD for a combination of 5 buildings/person) that both of you didn't want to pay while you can pay more for the food in the expensive restaurant). Secondly, you said about the touristy and crowded and hustle things. Because you don't know about the other beautiful sides of HoiAn. Those are good foods (as the icons for the cultural exchange I said previously from a long history) and peaceful scenes including countryside (vegetable farming village, beautiful beach of AN BANG, pottery village, Cham island - an international biosphere reserve zone, water coconut forest, peaceful rice farm with buffaloes scenery...). Those sites are around HoiAn and can come there easily by bicycle, by yourself or better with a Vietnamese friend or a tour guide to get an explanation about everything. For the food, I saw both of you just know only 1 Vietnamese dish is PHO. Poor you! Vietnam has many delicious dishes, and most of them come from rice which means GLUTEN-free. Especially in Hoi An, you can eat such dishes at low prices (not higher than 2USD/set if you come to the right sidethe local shops/not the expensive touristy shop) in common restaurants/shops including KAO LAU (special noodles in HoiAn the icon of cultural exchange of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Champa culture), MI QUANG (Quang noodles), BÚN CÁ (Fish noodle), CƠM GÀ (Chicken rice, different style from Chinese style), BÁNH HOA HỒNG (Rose dumpling), BÁNH BÈO (steamed rice powder cake), Hoi An Beef Curry, chè xí mà phủ (black sesame sweet) and many street foods you can try (BÁNH CĂN, BÁNH TRÁNG NƯỚNG, ỐC HÚT/Hot pepper cooked river snail,...). If you have an easy time schedule, you should stay in Hoi An for several days, ride a bicycle to explore the countryside scenes, dip inside the environment and air there, and you can feel the relaxed, slow-going life rhythm. That's the true beauty of HoiAn, the true value of HoiAn (Not the scene of streets, the vendors, and photo-hunting positions/sites like you mentioned)
And in the America, you keep getting phone calls from telemarketer on your phone, Email, and text constantly day in and day out after you told them no the first time No. This in the great USA.
You do know that the USA caused a terrible war(of choice) that devastated Vietnam and she is still recovering from it. Yet you complain about people trying to make a modest living by selling things. You complain about a modest fee to cross the Japanese bridge( which most people do without making a song and dance about). You both seem very insular and provincial. Try to see things from another view point.
Well yes, we are well aware of the war in Vietnam. We were simply comparing Hoi An to Hanoi and Da Nang. Hoi An was way more touristy and had a much larger number of vendors and other people trying to get you to buy something. It would simply be impossible to support or buy something from all of the vendors there. If you watched the video, we did buy and pay for things we wanted to and didn’t pay for the things we didn’t want to do. Specifically regarding the bridge, there were other people there stating they had never paid to cross that bridge before, so we were not alone in not paying to cross it that day.
So much negativity, you both seemed tired and perhaps that was the reason of you both just constantly complaining. Try and do your research before you travel. Thumbs down! :) Do better
Thank you for traveling to Vietnam, including HoiAn. Most important TIP: should make friends with a local to get effective hints to explore the new destination. (you should make friend with a student because he/she has free time and willingness to go with you to introduce about their country with foreign friends, now need to pay them for guilding, just to invite them food is OK)
From the clip, I have to say, you are not good at preparing for the journey. You don't know what you should focus on in each location when you decide to come there. HoiAn is famous firstly because of its World Heritage value of construction and cultural issues related. That means you will see the beauty of the buildings over a long time coming from its history as an international trading port from 16th century with the cultural exchange of Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, and the affect of French colonization time here. Because you have to come into those old building, you have to pay a small fee to contribute to the preservation work (I think the ticket is 6 USD for a combination of 5 buildings/person) that both of you didn't want to pay while you can pay more for the food in the expensive restaurant).
Secondly, you said about the touristy and crowded and hustle things. Because you don't know about the other beautiful sides of HoiAn. Those are good foods (as the icons for the cultural exchange I said previously from a long history) and peaceful scenes including countryside (vegetable farming village, beautiful beach of AN BANG, pottery village, Cham island - an international biosphere reserve zone, water coconut forest, peaceful rice farm with buffaloes scenery...). Those sites are around HoiAn and can come there easily by bicycle, by yourself or better with a Vietnamese friend or a tour guide to get an explanation about everything. For the food, I saw both of you just know only 1 Vietnamese dish is PHO. Poor you! Vietnam has many delicious dishes, and most of them come from rice which means GLUTEN-free. Especially in Hoi An, you can eat such dishes at low prices (not higher than 2USD/set if you come to the right sidethe local shops/not the expensive touristy shop) in common restaurants/shops including KAO LAU (special noodles in HoiAn the icon of cultural exchange of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Champa culture), MI QUANG (Quang noodles), BÚN CÁ (Fish noodle), CƠM GÀ (Chicken rice, different style from Chinese style), BÁNH HOA HỒNG (Rose dumpling), BÁNH BÈO (steamed rice powder cake), Hoi An Beef Curry, chè xí mà phủ (black sesame sweet) and many street foods you can try (BÁNH CĂN, BÁNH TRÁNG NƯỚNG, ỐC HÚT/Hot pepper cooked river snail,...).
If you have an easy time schedule, you should stay in Hoi An for several days, ride a bicycle to explore the countryside scenes, dip inside the environment and air there, and you can feel the relaxed, slow-going life rhythm. That's the true beauty of HoiAn, the true value of HoiAn (Not the scene of streets, the vendors, and photo-hunting positions/sites like you mentioned)
You haven't try out Sapa, Nha Trang, Dalat, Ninh Binh, or Hue as your vacation
And in the America, you keep getting phone calls from telemarketer on your phone, Email, and text constantly day in and day out after you told them no the first time No. This in the great USA.
Great video thks for sharing! Was it $7 for both pho or just one? Just curious if it’s overpriced there bc it’s more touristy/trendy
That was the total price for 2!
You eat everything in Vietnam 🇻🇳
I can’t
I eat healthy and sarah love you from india 🇮🇳
Haha, Sidewalks? in Vietnam? you mean parking lots? lol
Definitely an accurate description at times 😂
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Can you tell me danag hotel name?
Don’t agree hoi an is fabulous of course the locals need to sell stuff
Take a walk around the back roads and meet the people
unfortunately, Hoi An is what you said... a tourist trap. the backside of it is much more peaceful than the city center and more of a backpacker area.
If you guys have time pls.checkout Phu Quoc
Everyone gets scammed by the fruit ladies. Hoi An is a big big tourist trap, overrated in my opinion. Stay safe, thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Don’t be silly
You do know that the USA caused a terrible war(of choice) that devastated Vietnam and she is still recovering from it. Yet you complain about people trying to make a modest living by selling things. You complain about a modest fee to cross the Japanese bridge( which most people do without making a song and dance about). You both seem very insular and provincial. Try to see things from another view point.
Well yes, we are well aware of the war in Vietnam. We were simply comparing Hoi An to Hanoi and Da Nang. Hoi An was way more touristy and had a much larger number of vendors and other people trying to get you to buy something. It would simply be impossible to support or buy something from all of the vendors there. If you watched the video, we did buy and pay for things we wanted to and didn’t pay for the things we didn’t want to do. Specifically regarding the bridge, there were other people there stating they had never paid to cross that bridge before, so we were not alone in not paying to cross it that day.
You shouldn't pay to enter a temple. The temple belongs to the public.
So much negativity, you both seemed tired and perhaps that was the reason of you both just constantly complaining. Try and do your research before you travel. Thumbs down! :) Do better