One Day in Hoi An (Custom Tailor + Coconut Boats)

by Panzer
Today we are in Hanoi, Vietnam. We've been traveling through Vietnam over the last week
and we're now halfway up the country in this adorable port city. Hoi An was named a UNESCO
World Heritage Site because it's surprisingly untouched from a lot of the wars in the 20th
century. We'll be exploring the old town area, getting a few custom pieces of clothing, and
taking a unique ride on a boat we've never heard of before and they have a very popular
Night Market. It's insane how many people are here right now.
Our hotel is fantastic they have free bikes for us to use all over town and they do have
enough for two but we decided it’d be better to try out one today I have a comfy little
seat for me
it honestly would have been the smarter decision to take a Grab or rent a motorbike because
this place is about six kilometers away from downtown but we decided to ride the bike in
89 degree weather and like 80 humidity but at least Nate's doing all the work
In order to enter the village we have to pay an entry fee of 15,000 dong per person and
get these little tickets at the ticket booth the entry fee to the town does not include
the basket boat tour so we'll just find somebody in town in order to do that
so the coconut boat is actually the reason we came out here it's a super unique mode
of transportation that they used in fishing villages and now it's a tourist attraction
normally there's like a thousand boats on the river at a time but it doesn't look busy
I don't see anybody in a boat right now and a lot of boats just sitting here waiting to
be rented so holy cow big tour
hello oh thank you
okay thank you we were just about to head out and go look for our own boat but the family
here offered to get their boat person and it's a hundred dong total for the both of
us so that's a lot cheaper than I saw online so we're just gonna do that and it's recommended
by these nice people so it should be fun are you ready we go yeah we're getting hats to
help with the sun
Legend has it that these boats were created as a way for the locals to get around some
of the French taxes that came about when French colonized Vietnam so they taxed all the fishing
boats so they made these baskets and said technically they're not boats but we can still
fish out of them and the French said all right I guess you're right so they didn't tax them
I don't know if that's actually true but that's a legend and I like
the story
This is Vietnam’s version of a bucking bronco it's pretty funny to watch and harder to hang
on than you might think one more here we go
oh my God are you okay? are you okay to drive?
that was really good thank you thank you thank you so much thank you that was wonderful for
you thank you thank you thank you oh good you got the water okay I'm sorry I felt like
I did that very easily bye thank you that was amazing that's it for a coconut town adventures
the kind of by accidental bonus of coming to this restaurant to have a coconut before