SmugMug Photo & Video Sharing. You look better here. : Fish Baskets, Hoi An, Vietnam Hoi An is a most pleasant little river town with great beaches only a short ways away, but the real reason people visit is to have new clothes custom made. Zillions of tailors compete for your business to make custom clothing within a day or so at incredibly inepensive prices. The biggest problem is deciding which shop to give business. Designs are drawn from samples in each store, catalogue or copied from garments you provide. Not a shopper or looking for any clothing myself, I was compelled nontheless to have gifts made for my daughter, and a couple well needed replacements for my own pants worn thin along my journey. But I enjoyed the area most notably for the river scenes, excellent market with dramatic morning river commerce, and very mellow and convenient beaches. Development will grow this area quickly, especially with such good beach potential. So get here soon. River activity is non-stop, but especially good early in the early morning when all the fish and food is brought fresh along the river and roads, creating a characteristic Vietnamese cacophony of activity. Here in later morning after things quiet down a bit is a great time to catch a smoke in the shadow of bigger boats, with baskets now empty from earlier morning transit.