Southbound..

To Saigon, or Ho Chin Minh city (depending on your leanings) - tomorrow am - its meant to be ten times more frantic than Hanoi....happy to only be there for the day - then onto the rivers of the Mekong Delta...more to follow.

Hoi An was very bewitching, & we are sad to be leaving, but contrary to that profound t-shirt ditty of the 1980's -  life is not a beach.