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Hoi An
Jan 6, 2006 21:20:49 GMT -5
Post by Aly on Jan 6, 2006 21:20:49 GMT -5
Hoi An is one of the oldest trading communities is Vietnam. Mostly it is pure Vietnamese and Thai silks, shoes and other things along those lines. Here you can find dozens of store fronts that let you pick fabric and patterns and will make you a dress or pants or a suit over night. There are places where one can watch them make you a custom pair of shoes in only an hour. Yesterday we went to the ruins of an ancient kingom, that existed from 400 AD to 1200 AD. The buildings were made out of the clay soil in the area and after bricks were piled together and the buildings were constructed from the mud, they were fired in place in kilns that were built around the temples!! I then got seperated from the group and almost got eaten by a Velocerapter. But I escaped. The hotel we're staying in is one of the nicest ever. really. It has carvings wverywhere a lagoon and huge rooms with high ceilings and decks facing the courtyard. There is fresh fruit here that is soo good and so sweet. It is a lot like the fruit from Costa Rica, but a few different types. Dragon fruit and star fruit and this weird asian apple thing, which was kinda sketchy when the juice loked like milk... If any if you want things custon made in the silk village here, tell me your measurements and color preference I am off to call my boy. Talk to you all soon. -Aly-
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Hoi An
Jan 6, 2006 21:22:22 GMT -5
Post by Aly on Jan 6, 2006 21:22:22 GMT -5
BOY!!!!! turn on your phone!!!!!!!!!!
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Boy
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Hoi An
Jan 6, 2006 22:14:35 GMT -5
Post by Boy on Jan 6, 2006 22:14:35 GMT -5
hi baby, you are luckey my phone was on. Great post; you should write travel brochures.
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Hoi An
Jan 8, 2006 18:44:05 GMT -5
Post by Aunt Donna on Jan 8, 2006 18:44:05 GMT -5
Aly, you sound wonderful and I and sooo enjoying reading about your trip. Keep the info coming! Love, Aunt Donna
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mommy
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Hoi An
Jan 9, 2006 11:34:54 GMT -5
Post by mommy on Jan 9, 2006 11:34:54 GMT -5
Ali--so glad you escaped the velociraptor! You weren't hurt were you? Mommy
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Hoi An
Jan 10, 2006 22:56:53 GMT -5
Post by Dad on Jan 10, 2006 22:56:53 GMT -5
Maybe the ocelot chased away the veloceraptor.
Hoi An and Hanoi are anagrams. Are you sure you know where you are?
And how was the massage.
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Hoi An
Jan 12, 2006 6:50:03 GMT -5
Post by Aly on Jan 12, 2006 6:50:03 GMT -5
The massage was good. for 11$ it was excellent.
The ocelot is in Costa Rica, dad, i DOUBT it swam across the pacific to save me.
The Veloceraptor was probably scared off by the hundreds of dragon flies that were in the area when we arrived. In fact, there were so many and they were so large that one of the girls in the group thought it was a swarm of birds in migration!
Hoi An is the silk capital of Vietnam and Hanoi is the political capital of Vietnam. Once you've been to either place, you'd know how very different they are from one another.
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