Hoi An Vietnam an ancient Port Town beautifully presented as a preserved heritage site that is
almost like stepping into a time machine to a Vietnam of the SDA one of the prettiest
places in not only Vietnam but the entirety of Southeast Asia tourists flocked this popular
holiday destination with hopes of catching some Instagram snaps look how beautiful it
is here I can't get over it riding bicycles to the futuresque Alleyways or sampling local Delicacies
at the popular Night Market all centered around the peaceful and beautiful Thu Bồn River River
good morning welcome back to my Channel or welcome if you're new here my name is Josie
and today I'm doing something that I haven't done for about a year Drive anything anywhere
first stop Bánh mì
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I'm on the wrong side of the road okay this is tripping me out in Australia we don't drive on
this side okay the Bánh mì's here the Bánh mì's here Bánh mì's here okay I was so scared that I
like completely forgot to record when I got off the bike so I've ordered my Bánh mì right here
we've got two pork and egg and then two egg and cheese I'm pretty sure Michael wants his pork oil
I don't know that smells good though
Thank you 75 yeah, Cảm ơn, thank you. just do that [Music] my butt hurts
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okay that's worse yeah I don't I don't envy you there
okay guys driving on the wrong side of the road is a lot harder than I thought
so we've just arrived here in Hoi An so I'm not actually exactly sure where things are or
where we're going okay no thank you so I'm not exactly sure where we're going but I do know
that there's coffee shops on this side of the bridge and first things first for me I need a
coffee Michael's working at the moment but we are staying with this beautiful lovely Hotel here in
Hoi An I'm going to show you a little bit more about that soon but first of all food and coffee
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but I needed more ice but I will say look how beautiful it is here I can't get over
it I think it's maybe my new favorite place in Vietnam let me know in the comments below if
you like Hoi An and if not where's your favorite place in Vietnam let me know
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yes I can speak a little bit of Thai thank you nice to meet you I just met some lovely
ladies from Thailand that was so cute thank you that's all that's good thank you Cảm ơn
y'all please show me how I want to work oh I'll show you the first person to watch
your video oh really that's me yeah oh thank you all right so this is the
egg and cheese Bánh mì it's a little bit soggy because the coffee fell everywhere in my basket
so it's egg cheese and coffee okay so I told you that would come and see our hotel it is so nice
having a little bit of bliss in the middle of all the travel chaos we open up to this like closet
like luggage thing and it goes straight through to something special so I don't want to show you in
there right now but you have some storage in there and then you walk down this hallway it opens up
into this big amazing room with this traditional four poster bed we have had some half beds but
this one luckily is super soft now I'm going to save the bathroom for a second because that's kind
of the highlight of the show I think in my opinion but we go this way and we see our our suitcases
our closets this is what we live out of so don't mind them big TV here comes into this massive
desk so for us especially working and traveling and moving this desk is massive and that's going
to help us get work done so the staff here have looked after us so much and we have a little cake
here a little welcome cake little touches like that really make a stay when you're traveling
so often feel really appreciated so this is the outside now this is arguably I think the second
most awesome thing about this place I love the bathroom you're gonna see in a second but this is
so cool there is not many places that have enough space for a balcony let alone a balcony with two
chairs and a coffee table as well to enjoy this amazing view all right you guys have waited long
enough let's go have a look at the bathroom this Egg bath is one of the the prettiest things I've
ever ever seen have this awesome shower as well which is massive there's conditioner shampoo bath
gel with a massive rainfall shower head marble top gold tapware and this cool flower shaped mirror
hello this was a cool thing about before this is the luggage storage area I guess the cupboard
the closet it has your safe and your robe and everything in there as well and it goes straight
through to the bathroom which I know you don't think about this but it's so easy to just reach
in and grab something and if you're forgetting it when in when you're in the bathroom you can
just reach through and it just saves so much time and this old-fashioned phone super cute
it is nice to relax so this if you missed it is the Allegro Hoi An they are part of the little
hoi an group so they have a couple of other like hotels around Hoi An there's one by the Riverside
as well if you want to stay over that way um but we are staying here now I'm very honest and open
with my collaborations and on my page so this is a gifted stay for the next two nights that we're
here in Hoi An and I'm really excited because this is a beautiful hotel it's actually somewhere that
we were looking to stay anyway it's probably a five minute walk out of the actual like city
place or like the famous bridge or whatever we normally do stay in the city center but as we're
walking through there as I walked through there this morning I was actually really surprised at
how many tourists there were and how many like people are just scoring by in that little city
center so this couple of minutes walk outside is just a little bit more relaxing we went for
a really nice dinner last night the staff were amazing everything was delicious so they have a
really good gym here for a hotel actually like a full bench press true treadmills a full cable
machine and everything so very impressed there's a spa there as well everyone was really friendly and
we have some bikes out the front they are really good as I've seen so many people right around Hoi
An on bikes we're going for a short walk into the city just to show you what's around here
in Hoi An where you can get to from the Allegro there's a night market it's on every night so
we're gonna head there show you what that's like and just a little walk around the city as well
[Music] okay so we are just walking through this part here where the night market gets
set up it's on every night and there is quite a few different things here there's a lot of
like bits and Bobs textiles Rings things like that but there's also some food too
so we're going to come through here later but first we're going to see the Chua cow Bridge
I think that's how you say it it's just here everything's within walking distance of the hotel
which is awesome you've got all these Alleyways that just look absolutely stunning and picturesque
and it's actually right now even though there's a little tourist and a lot of people it's actually
quite quiet because there's all of these like little tuk-tuks I know it's not a talk talk
but I'm not sure of the name but they're like singular passenger bikes that have a person
on the front which is I guess what's it called Rickshaw Rickshaw is that the name of this it's
called Rick Shores yeah and that seems to be like hoi ANS tuk-tuk version so everyone is on these
look all the way there there's so many people just coming past in these like passenger bikes
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there is so many cafes and like restaurants on the Riverside that you could probably eat here
every day for a really long time and still not get through them all there is so many
there's birds back there that are paper and they're just flying through the air you see
it at the bridge now there is so many people in this general area like trying to get photos
and things it is super like obviously old it's full of wood on the floor here
so you've heard me talk about how like pretty this place is but we haven't heard Michael's
thoughts yet so what do you think I love it this is awesome so every now and then you
do things a little bit more touristy right and this is definitely more touristy than
where we would normally find ourselves we normally like to go to big cities and
then kind of get immersed in local life but this is tourist central thank you I will say
by far here is the most like pushy for things like tours bicycles clothes everything they are
Relentless if I'm being honest that's just the one thing I don't like about tourist Towns at
all so it's um sometimes I just I just want to enjoy the beautiful scenery around me you know
has a different feel to it like at night time or like when the sun is going down it's
getting dust it just feels different right now than it did earlier on in the video as
you would probably see but there's a night market up here that we walked through before
we're gonna head there and just see what kind of food we can get just to nibble on
I love our puppies there's so many puppies here like I've noticed of
anywhere there's the most dogs in Hoi An hi hello do you have a apple mango for juice
there's 60 000 wrong I make juice for you you make juice
okay I was in the middle of ordering then but that's okay yeah I know I know
and pay credit card well I was just in the middle of literally
ordering a juice and they came in so we're gonna buy somewhere else
orange orange juice okay how many just one place how much 30 000.
icing sugar yes please I was super confused because like we looked and
there was no oranges so like oh they don't have orange juice but it's the oranges that
are green on the outside which they should be called greens tell me in the comments below
we'll try that as well uh vegetarian how much is it 30
000. okay just one vegetarian so he's got this like I don't know rice paper kind of pancake
thing and he's filled it with like onions potato there's tofu green onions and then she's like
gonna put chili uh sauce and mayo but I don't like chili sauce so there's just Mayo on there
okay but we have our orange juice our freshly squeezed orange juice here each one of these
was 30 000 dong how much is that about two dollars australian-ish so let's try this
oh that's a full orange juice yeah it is so she
asked us she's like you want icing sugar and we said yes
that is so good it's so nice I think I want my own one should go Michael bought
this but I might have another one for myself I really like that so this is the like and a
crispy pancake type thing it's yellow I've never seen anything like this oh it's like a taco um
I like that nice easy snack I normally wouldn't probably like it because I like meat but you
can't really tell this doesn't have meat in it and it's really nice it's got a nice flavor I
really like this Michael's getting distracted by the World Cup later game not this game how much
chocolate or peanut butter [Music]
thank you
so it's banana okay delicious
who's playing Croatia
who you go for who you want to win uh no uh one one one one only 20 minutes where
are you from Australia yeah we lost we lost last night that night yeah
yeah yeah
thank you come on come on all right so I've got a big thick piece of the like banana pancake
um I do think I prefer I think it's my favorite like Roti banana crepe thing I
think my favorite one was maybe like the kind we got from goo Fusion in Chiang Mai like the
Thailand one with the Milo and the condensed milk and everything I think that's my favorite
kind of like Roti all right so we are done with our first day in Hoi An and I really liked it I
definitely think you should put it on your list if you're coming to Vietnam really did surprise
me so I really like it that's it for the day we're going back to our hotel now which is
awesome to stay in for a good night's sleep and if you like this one what's the one on
the screen now it's our first day in Saigon in Vietnam I'll see you in the next one bye