well it's an absolutely beautiful day here in vietnam can you guys tell that we are absolutely
in love with this country or what today we are in hoi and we're going to explore the city a little
bit a little bit of a preview it's absolutely gorgeous and we can't wait to show it to you
so here we are along the river in the ancient old town there's all sorts of lanterns around actually
i think they call this the city of lanterns they light them all up at night time so we'll
definitely be picking up the video at night so you can see what it's like after dark but by
the way my name is anna and trevor is behind the camera we are the delightful travelers be sure
to hit subscribe give us a like and maybe leave a comment while you're at it you're going to notice
no matter what if you're in this city that there's all these beautiful bridges because the river
runs right through it just take a look behind me here we're going to be on the hunt for a very
unique bridge soon and hopefully hopefully later in the video maybe we'll either get out on the
river on a boat that would be nice that would be pretty cool there is an abundance of boats here so
i don't think we're going to have any trouble also if you guys are wondering why it seems a little
quiet in the video today it's because vietnam has just opened it's the year 2022 if you're watching
in the future and there's not a lot of people of course i think the country just opened a few
weeks ago and we really have this city in order to say all to ourselves but it's really quiet you'll
probably notice that this town is really colorful and the way people get around is either by scooter
or by bicycle also i can't help but notice people are just outside enjoying the outdoors
this is our type of town yeah if you're wondering where it's located it's in central vietnam just
along the coast there's actually some beaches not too far from here but we won't have time for that
unfortunately no we haven't lived in the dominican republic so i guess we don't really need beaches
i also read the population is around 120 000 sometimes that's not so accurate when you look
it up online sometimes it just includes like city proper or the whole area so if i'm wrong on that
someone can correct us in the comments so going along with how beautiful and well preserved this
old town is it's a unesco world heritage site and it's because and i'm going to go to my phone for
this one hoi an ancient town is an exceptionally well preserved example of southeast asian
trading port dating back from the 15th to the 19th century so that must have been when trading
was but i also read that this city itself is like 2 000 years old well that's pretty cool
but you know what else is cool that bridge well i wonder how many people can say they get this
iconic bridge all to themselves i don't imagine that happens very often other than the past
two years but there weren't any turrets here but look at us i know this video is going to be hoi an
with no tourists people that have been here before are going to be really shocked to see how empty
the streets are because we've heard from like friends and other people that normally the streets
are just packed with people but yes this bridge is absolutely beautiful i'm pretty sure it costs
money to like actually go on it and across it i think i read that it might include a temple or
something as well but you get a gorgeous view just from outside you don't even need to go on that
beautiful bridge wow i still can't get over what i'm looking at actually we take that back we're on
the bridge right now and you can just walk right over it connects basically two roads huh yeah but
there is a door through there and i thought i took it off so maybe it's to go inside and like
it might be beam or something it probably is but it is cool that you can walk over this for free
so this bridge is the symbol of hoi an and it represents the harmonization of cultures
specifically vietnam japan and china also it was built by the japanese between the 16th and 17th
century pretty wild as we walk you're going to notice how beautiful all these buildings are i was
reading that a lot of them date back to like the 18th and 19th century some of them older than that
and very very lucky that this city actually it was one of the only ones in vietnam that didn't get
destroyed during the vietnam war there is so much for sale on this road but there's no one on the
road there's literally no tourists around right now i know i actually feel kind of bad because i'm
sure people have been hurting for the last time oh yeah zero tourists i mean everywhere depends
on tourists to get by this is a tourist city we notice a lot of people like try to get you in
and think that that's probably been happening for years but we always have people coming up to us
where are you from where are you from come to my suit store they do make suits here by the
way for very very yeah it's known for suit making believe it or not this i've never heard of that
like a town but there are people that do come up to you trying to get you to spend money on their
tours and things like that so just keep that in mind but remember there was a pandemic here as
well and yeah we all want to help these people out as much as we possibly can well we've just
randomly come across uh this thing yeah this is how pretty the city is you're just walking
along the street you look over and you see stuff like this what is this place i know we're gonna
look it up on our phone but look at this it's like a little pond all these kind of lily pads
and then a very ancient wall over there yeah it's beautiful ah we found a sign here the bamboo
temple gates right i'm going to look and see what that is what even is that i don't know give me a
minute so i'm trying to find a little bit about it online and i honestly haven't found much other
than it dates back to 1626 i don't know what type of temple it is maybe buddhist might be buddhist
but i think we're going to need their help yeah if you know the answer to the question please leave a
comment and let us know there is one thing we do know it is hot you guys you might have noticed i
had to put my hair up because it was just too hot to have it down you've been watching the
last few videos you also might have noticed that we haven't really been sweating that much because
the temperature has been really nice i think it's been like most days around like 25-ish and not
humid but today i don't know what the temperature is but today the humidity is out and i'm sweating
yeah we're just uh well we're dying over here we thought it would be a good idea to take you back
to our hotel you can see there's a bicycles that are free they come with the hotel look how pretty
this is i know this is a cute entrance way you have all these fountains the lanterns it's very
very hoya it's called little riverside and it's not that expensive it's not so the thing about
staying in vietnam is that really everywhere is so inexpensive we splurge like and i mean splurged
on this place for a whole 70 dollars a night and that includes breakfast but you can easily find a
place for like thirty to fifty dollars and by the way that's seventy dollars gets you this
view it is aptly named little riverside because it's literally right on the river i think a lot
of the rooms not ours we'll show you that in a minute have a river or view as well yeah and that
70 dollars also gets you this pool and this view of the river i cannot believe the value the bang
for your buck that you get this is such an amazing pool and yeah if you're wondering we're going to
be chilling out here a little later today but not not in the video we need to take a break at
some point our room hasn't been cleaned yet we're going to give you a tour anyway because it still
looks really nice this king-size bed i'm pretty sure this is a king deluxe room or something
along those lines you can see like the asian theme happening in here you've got tv and mini bar over
on this side your desk and a patio oh here we do not have a view of anything but it's still nice
yeah it's pretty nice the river is kind of right down there it's kind of like a cool kind of living
wall there huh yeah across from i think there's a fancy hotel on the other side with a big pool
that we can kind of see now we'll go in and check out the bathroom this is probably our
favorite part definitely the best part but check out the doors first because they're really cool
yeah that's awesome hello but look at the bathtub there's like this huge stone bathtub i did take
a bath in here pretty much the moment we got here over this way you have the sink excuse our mess we
have everything everywhere then you have a really nice shower rainfall shower head on this side
and toilet here all right that's what you get for about 70 dollars per night not too bad right so we
have plans for going back to the pool without you guys and we'll pick you up a little later in the
evening well welcome to uh holi on at night huh i know this is apparently where all the people were
where were they today they must have been sleeping i'm not sure but they're all over right now
yeah everybody is out right now so these people were definitely asleep today one of the things
about hoi an is at night it just lights up you're gonna see why in a few minutes here
because you'll start to see some lanterns around i mean it's so colorful there's a lot of people
outside i'm surprised but look at what we're coming up to right now can you see how many
lanterns are here right now and there's tons of people as well i didn't realize coming in to this
city how lit up at night it's going to be and there's not even that many tourists here
i know it looks like there's a lot of people around us right now but this is still early
vietnam has just opened and here we are i can't imagine what it's like in real life but
look at the color of these things i actually can't believe how beautiful this place is at
night i don't even know if i could compare it to anything i mean we've been to lots of european
cities that are lit up really beautifully at night but this one maybe takes the cake i don't know
i know and our camera isn't the best at night but we had to come out i really hope you guys get at
least somewhat of an idea of how gorgeous this is especially here on the river there's all these
boats with the lanterns on them maybe we'll go try to do a boat tour right now just because it'd be
fun to float around with you know all the lanterns well all right we're back on the bridge where we
um well sort of started the video there's a lot of people out here now trying to dodge some of them
as we go almost ran into someone so we are about to try to find a boat to go on we think we can
go on one of these colorful boats around here if someone approaches us usually they walk up to us
and go like hi do you want a boat ride they will they'll find us i know they'll find us
well we found people trying to get us on a boat ride do we have her we have her how much is the
boat ride i want all right two how much one like one hundred yeah that's that's too much it's it
was less expensive somewhere else huh someone said fifty yeah fifty fifty oh of two people fifty uh
that's too much two people i don't know someone said fifty for two yeah yeah lucky
all right we'll see all right so this is how it works here as you can see she's following me if
you ask a question you're going to get people telling you different prices we were told it was
not as expensive as she said but that's fine i just thought i'd ask anybody i think she's
still behind me she's still with us okay i don't know we're gonna keep going and just see who else
there was a person we met last night named well our hat said everest so if we can find her yeah
okay
should we do two people 50. we agreed on two people 50. we can't figure out if they're working
together or they're competing against each other this place is pretty special but we wanted to show
you the realities of it when you're down here at night there's a lot of people hustling to get you
to go on boats so right now i think we're about to go we appreciate it
they're nice i think they're still back here she's trying to is she trying to sell you one
of those things yeah i don't need a light you don't need a light no i don't sorry well it's
official they have literally corralled us into this little tiny boat yeah that's great though
we this is awesome this is what we wanted to do anyway we wanted to take you guys out here
they're all so nice but when you talk to them they will continue to kind of chase chase shoes
but yeah our guys back there he's the captain and we're coming up on something really cool this way
we have a bucket list moment happening right now we're finally in hoi an and yeah we're about to
go under this beautiful bridge we are ducking literally ducking under a bridge so don't you
hit your head be very careful they don't really give you a whole lot of warning there do they
no oh there you go we're safe bridge behind us how cool is this there's so many boats out here
so many boats so many lights this is one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen
i know look at that bridge i really like how peaceful it is out here there's lots
of boats but everyone seems to not collide or as i say that we're about to hit hello
everyone's really friendly oh we're about to go under the bridge again under the bridge
one thing i want to point out is a lot of people drop these kind of lanterns you can see it's like
a little candle in there hopefully you guys can see that it's cool there's a few of them floating
around i had heard that on the full moon of each month there's a lantern festival where apparently
you light all those candles and put them in the water it's supposed to be really really beautiful
i think we're missing it by like just a day or two sadly well that gives us
a good reason to come back yeah all right well that was really fun it was a lot of fun it was
only a few minutes like we really got in went under the bridge came back so it was probably
just maybe 10 minutes it was equivalent of like two and a half dollars two and a half dollars
if you're coming here make sure to do that that's like literally one of the highlights
one of the highlights of hoi an there's a lot of highlights in this town speaking of highlights
we're off to get something to eat and this time we're not going to be eating vietnamese food
we've done that in another video you can go back and watch it we're on the hunt for something else
well welcome to burger kraft this is a kind of hipster burger joint mixed with a craft beer
place so right here on the side of the street we have our beer and it's not just any beer this is a
vietnamese craft beer and it's an ipa now this is serious you guys the last time i had an ipa beer
was back in october i think october of 2021 it's been a while so it's time to try it again
it's been a while since we had craft beer oh if you're new around here if we love our craft beer
it's gonna do the trick it's gonna do the trick it's nice and hoppy that's pretty much pretty
much the bar when it comes to craft beer but we've ordered some delicious burgers and they're about
to arrive so no giving us a hard time for eating western food sometimes you just got to do it we've
been eating a whole lot of really really delicious vietnamese food we even did a whole tour in the
last video with all vietnamese food sometimes you just need to see something different eat something
a little bit more comfort food it's funny because sometimes we'll talk to people that will travel
to a city or country and they'll come back and complain about the food because that's all they
ate the whole time and they got really tired of it so it's okay to mix things up here and there
the burgers have arrived and i actually went for a veggie burger it's a thai veggie burger
sound really interesting they also have like an indian spiced one this one has i think some peanut
satay sauce which is really what um interested to me and i forget what the actual patty is
made of but it's got some veggies on there let's give it a shot they're quite the size
that's got some really nice flavor going on actually because it is like thai spiced i feel
like i got a burger but like an asian style burger so i'm not really cheating on asia at the moment
just kind of but it's got a nice peanut sauce on there the burger itself has like uh maybe basil
in there because that's the predominant taste that i get and maybe uh like cumin or something
something kind of indian flavored it's a nice nice combo this is yummy and did we do we talked about
the bun yet really nice bun i went for the classic burger today i usually go for that because i feel
like it's the baseline for a place that you're at a restaurant you're about to try you want to
see how good the basic burger is on this guy we got some lettuce we got some tomato of course
you got the patty and you got that bun this is like a glistening bun it's coated in something
and on this guy with some secret sauce not sure what that sauce is but we're about to find out
oh yeah that is good i noticed right away the patty it's an australian grade
patty australian beef so that was very appealing to me the bun is really good i'm wondering if they
make that in-house not quite sure obviously there is some secret sauce on there so i like
that it's not just ketchup not just mustard not just relish i could use some cheese on here i
opted not to go for the cheese but i bet you with cheese it would be good but the patty's
really good overall this is a really good burger we got some fries we put some cajun sauce on them
makes her a great combo especially with that ipa beer well the burgers were great but that's not
the only thing that was great the entire day was great bucket list moment again we've got
to explore hoi an yeah the city is absolutely amazing it's everything we wanted and so much more
we don't have nearly enough time here i wish we had more days a couple of nights which is not
enough not nearly enough and i underestimated just how beautiful this city is at night
it's so colorful and even during the day it's beautiful during the day and then at night is
just incredible definitely one of the most beautiful cities i've ever seen at nighttime
so i hope we're giving you guys some ideas on what to do here in vietnam if you're planning to come
over to this side of the world we highly recommend you go to some of the spots that we've been to
so far and if you got this far in the video it's trevor and anna delightful travelers if you're new
here it's nice to see you guys if you're not it's always nice to see each and every one of you that
tune in each week and there's lots more content coming up from vietnam we are flying next back to
hanoi we were previously there in another video we only had one night so we really didn't get
to see that much so now we're going to spend a few days let's do a few videos a little bit
that city looks super cool we didn't have enough time but this time we're gonna do it properly yeah
all right guys that's it from hoi an wishing you delightful travels see you
soon