{"id":4084,"date":"2016-04-11T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:01:25","slug":"pictures-old-quarter-hoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/pictures-old-quarter-hoi\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pictures from the Old Quarter of H\u1ed9i An"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day in H\u1ed9i An &#8211; another day to go to the Old Quarter in the evening for some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/340.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"View from the bridge I had to walk over every day from the hotel to my food place\"\/><br \/>View from the bridge I had to walk over every day from the hotel to my food place <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/341.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"View from the table. On the left the sugar cane juice maker\"\/><br \/>View from the table. On the left the sugar cane juice maker <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/342.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"I had this and the next day the same. Rice noodles with some kind of Peanuts sauce and lots of greens. Very nice!\"\/><br \/>I had this and the next day the same. Rice noodles with some kind of Peanuts sauce and lots of greens. Very nice! <\/p>\n<h2>Thuan Phong Homestay<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/343.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Had to move to the Thuan Phong Homestay since my place was booked solid\"\/><br \/>Decided to stay a night longer since the forecast was not good for the next day. There was only one more couple at my hotel for the last 3 days and they did check out. So I did not think for one minute that it would be booked solid. But it turned out it was. So I had to move to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/vn\/thuan-phong-homestay.html?aid=959368\" target=\"dd\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thuan Phong Homestay<\/span><\/a>. I got a deal for 9 US $ for the night and you can not beat this one!! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/344.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"My room at the Thuan Phong Homestay\"\/><br \/>My room at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/vn\/thuan-phong-homestay.html?aid=959368\" target=\"dd\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thuan Phong Homestay<\/span><\/a>. A king size bed and one queen size. Chairs, desks, AC, Fridge, Hot shower, balcony, breakfast included as well as secure parking for the bike. They even did bring me free dinner!! <\/p>\n<p>You need a bicycle or motorbike if you want to go to the Old Quarter since it is about 4 kilometres away. You could walk in and take a taxi back as well &#8211; they are cheap in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/345.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"The bathroom\"\/><br \/>The bathroom <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/346.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Not sure if this is really working or not... \"\/><br \/>Not sure if this is really working or not&#8230; <br \/>Somehow I do prefer paper&#8230; <\/p>\n<h2>Lets head to the Old Quarter of H\u1ed9i An<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/322.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"474\" alt=\"A lot of the little side streets are so small you could not fit any other kind of transport\"\/><br \/>A lot of the little side streets are so small you could not fit any other kind of transport <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/324.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"459\" alt=\"So happy\"\/><br \/>So happy <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/286.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Waiting for customers\"\/><br \/> Waiting for customers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/287.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"448\" alt=\"Finally something new - at last here in the streets!\"\/><br \/>Finally something new &#8211; at last here in the streets! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/288.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"447\" alt=\"A friendly face - waiting for customers to try her tea\"\/><br \/> A friendly face &#8211; waiting for customers to try her tea<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/290.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"456\" alt=\"The Japanese bridge\"\/><br \/> The Japanese bridge dates back to the 18th century. Apparently the Japanese on the one side of the river build it to reach the  Chinese quarter on the other side. It is kind of landmark here and in the night they illuminate it in all colours. How ugly! This is the neutral light &#8211; it does change every few seconds to blue, green, red and purple&#8230; You also need a ticket if you want to walk over the bridge. What a BS&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/291.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Candle Girls\"\/><br \/>Candle Girls <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/292.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"416\" alt=\"Mr. Rat does try to hide from me\"\/><br \/> Mr. Rat does try to hide from me<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/293.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"484\" alt=\"A man waiting next to a motorbike\"\/><br \/>A man waiting next to a motorbike &#8211; if you did not figure that out by now. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/294.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" alt=\"The streets of the Old Quarter in Hoi An - crowded\"\/><br \/>The streets of the Old Quarter in Hoi An &#8211; crowded <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/303.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" alt=\"Next in line\"\/><br \/> Next in line<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/306.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"502\" alt=\"Work never stops\"\/><br \/> Work never stops<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/307.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Very colourful but how to get them home?\"\/><br \/>Very colourful but how to get them home? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nDo you want to stay up to date and not miss a post? <b>Subscribe to the blog<\/b> on the top right or all the way down on this page!<\/p>\n<p>Support my blog -> Book your room here:<\/p>\n<p><ins data-cc1=\"vn\" class=\"bookingaff\" data-aid=\"959377\" data-target_aid=\"959368\" data-prod=\"sbp\" data-width=\"650\" data-height=\"300\"><br \/>\n    <!-- Anything inside will go away once widget is loaded. --><br \/>\n    <a href=\"\/\/www.booking.com?aid=959368\">Booking.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/ins><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    (function(d, sc, u) {\n      var s = d.createElement(sc), p = d.getElementsByTagName(sc)[0];\n      s.type = 'text\/javascript';\n      s.async = true;\n      s.src = u + '?v=' + (+new Date());\n      p.parentNode.insertBefore(s,p);\n      })(document, 'script', '\/\/aff.bstatic.com\/static\/affiliate_base\/js\/flexiproduct.js');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day in H\u1ed9i An &#8211; another day to go to the Old Quarter in the evening for some pictures. View from the bridge I had to walk over every day from the hotel to my food place View from the table. On the left the sugar cane juice maker I had this and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,142,44,538],"tags":[86,371,565,541],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoi-an","category-asia-travel","category-food","category-vietnam","tag-asia","tag-food","tag-hoi-an","tag-vietnam"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/303.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/303.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}