My Son- Ancient Ruins

I got my first taste of the amazing breakfast that everyone was talking about. It was a buffet with eggs done any way you like, pancakes, fruit, yogurt, cereal, a selection of pastries and some rice and noodles (just incase you want that in the morning!) It was definitely the best breakfast I've had out here!

Once we were full, Michelle, Joe from Canada, Martin from Norway, and I headed out to the 'My Son' ancient ruins.

It was about an hour taxi ride from where we were staying. 

'My Son' is quite similar to 'Angkor Wat' in Cambodia- though on a much smaller scale. 

One part of the ruins 

The ruins were split into different areas- A-G. It was interesting to see but was somewhat underwhelming as I'd already been to Angkor Wat. The signs talked a lot about the restoration rather than the history and how it was built, which I would have found more interesting.

                   My Son temple 

Me- not 'touching on the objects'

Me in the doorway

They had lots of carved animal-like faces. It would have been interesting to know the significance of these but it didn't say anywhere.

One of the faces

'My Son' temple being resorted

Maybe I'm not quite tall enough...

After wondering round for a bit, we headed back to the hotel, and decided to  check out the market in search of coconuts and pineapples. We managed to find a whole coconut, some pinapple juice and some rum which made a pretty good drink! 

 One of the many lantern shops in Hoi An

The hotel had recommended a street that  had lots of places that were good to eat. We found one place- the food was pretty good but was quite a touristy restaurant. While we were eating, it started to rain really hard. The streets were starting to flood. The restaurant showed us pictures of the year before when Hoi An had flooded so badly that they had to use boats! After psyching ourselves up, we put our ponchos on and made our way through the rain, with water up to our ankles, back to the hotel- lucky no boats were needed!