Up at 9:10am to make sure we catch our free breakfast here

After, we go back up and get ready for the day; we chill for a little and make a start from about 11:30ish

At that time, we head out to grab a coffee from Hoi An Roastery Espresso & Coffee House III

The mugs are rather large!

Getting to lunch time, we pop just down the road to a place we’d been recommended from elsewhere: Madam Khanh – The Banh Mi Queen

Two chicken bahn mis and they certainly do the trick and are a bargain also

We take them and walk to pick up our laundry and back to the hotel to drop this off

We’ve got to make something of the day today so decide to get a Grab taxi and head East

We get dropped outside Bá Lộc Coconut – it seems to be a restaurant as well as providing access to the water where you can do a tour on a traditional Vietnamese circle/basket boat

We arrive and bargain our price down for the tour and then wait a short amount of time before being boarded to our very own boat

The tour takes you around the coconut forest here for about 40 minutes; being out in the sun, you are given the option to wear a traditional hat to keep the sun off

We paddle up and around some of the coconut plantations, see a few boats spinning around to Gangnam style

Our boat captain loves it so much, he spins us around 3 times on the way back – you’ve just got to make sure you’re holding on for dear life as you might actually fall out ????

Safely back on land, we return to the hotel; we have a bit of a swim and head to the room

It’s only a brief swim as it seems it’s now the start of a five day holiday in Vietnam for Reunification Day – the biggest holiday in Vietnam; the hotel is now fully booked and there’s just not enough room for us all!

We head out for dinner around 6:30pm and cave in to go back to MIX, the Greek restaurant

A couple of chicken souvlakis and the tasty free desert ????

Now, being in lantern city, we just have to take one of the lantern boats and set loose a couple of lanterns on the water – 150k for us both for 20 minutes isn’t too bad

After our boat ride, we battle the crowds to get to the night market for a cheeky sugar cane juice: it’s not as terrible as it looks – win

Then back over to the other side for a cheeky local specialty- the Hoi An pancake – it seems it’s grilled rice paper with a vegetarian filling; it tastes a bit fishy and not our cup of tea, really

Knackered, we head home to enjoy the “peace and quiet” of our hotel – it seems a hotel full of awful guests, where our room is literally in the middle of an entire floor taken over by 1 family – leads to a bad night’s sleep, sadly ????