Hoi An - the city of a thousand lanterns

Happy hour, if you don't look you'll never know and you promised to buy later chime from ever street corner from the street sellers. Wherever you sit you will be approached.  No I don't want peanuts, a fan, a doll or a fridge magnet!!!! These beautiful streets are lined with old Chinese merchant shops and are painted a gorgeous hue of mustard yellow, at night the city comes alive with the glow of lanterns from the shops, restaurants and street lights. Unesco protection ensures that there is little change here with a no car zone in the old streets it's a mix of cycles and people on foot walking through these old streets.
I had my annual bike ride and spent Boxing Day cycling along rice fields, where the farmer rode the water buffalo and went to the beach. Then returning back to town we cycled through villages and across coconut groves and past fishermen on the rivers. Hoi Am is a very special place and tourism makes it one of the most wealthy areas in the whole of Vietnam. So no I don't want to buy a lantern, have clothes made or buy a book mark, but I do want to wander around this magical city and explore it's living history!