Our final stop of our honeymoon in Vietnam was in Hội An.
Day 10: We woke early and headed straight to the clothes tailor. Emma found a trendy place that seemed somewhat Tiktok famous. We ordered what Emma likes to call "a haul"; a bunch of shirts for me and pants and dresses for her. We then did a lot of photo taking and walking around the Old Town. We'd stop at any shops we liked, slowly weaving our way through all the narrow laneways dodging motorbikes. We had lunch at Miss Ly and bought some more clothes. In the evening we walked along the river and went to the night markets.
Day 11: Today was probably our most adrenaline rush risky day where we rented a scooter. You just rock up to a scooter rental location and there's simply no paperwork or checking of licenses. We paid ~120,000 Vietnamese dong (or about $7 AUD) for a day. It was scary navigating the traffic and just generally obeying road rules (or lack thereof) but with Emma on the back seat we got through. For some reason the scooter had no petrol in it so we also got to roll up to a petrol station and fill up the tank. Riding the scooter with the wind whipping in your face really did feel fantastic. I'd love to go for a bigger scooter journey one day. In saying that, it is dangerous as hell and it's just a matter of time before you fall off.
Whilst on the scooter we visited the Pottery Village, Roving Chill House which was a cafe in a beautiful rice field and the Vegetable Village. We had lunch again at Miss Ly and dropped the scooter back. In the evening we picked up our tailoring as well as a bunch of gifts and had dinner at an Italian restaurant (our stomachs were feeling a bit average from so much Vietnamese food). It felt like home eating spaghetti bolognese.
Day 12: We had a quick hair wash and massage (which to my surprise I really enjoyed) before checking out of our hotel and heading to the airport. We flew back to Australia to see our one and only Boots.
Other items:
- Hội An is your stereotypical overtourism type location, it takes a long time to walk anywhere due to the crush of people, there's also a bit of a rubbish issue
- We stayed at this hotel, it was a solid pick
- We were pretty paranoid about getting food poisoning again, for dinner on day 10 we thought the food was okay but didn't feel great the morning of day 11, might have been a minor case of food poisoning but we were fine later in the day
It was a fantastic honeymoon with lots of special memories. Some memories were not so good (again food poisoning and going to hospital sucks) but overall it was a great couple of weeks.
Here are my three Vietnam honeymoon posts: