Alongside with the very beautiful old quarter I posted previously there is also a beach outside Hoi An. I only visited the section closest to town but it was quite a strange experience, the place seemed to have an abandoned feel about it and was fairly dirty with large scale tidal defenses apparently rapidly put in place.
On leaving the beach and returning to the town in the hope of catching the river at sunset I was quickly greeted with a much more picturesc scene from a very rickety feeling road bridge which shook as the huge tourist buses rumbled by inches away.
That evening we ate a street food restaurant. The food was a sort of fried pancake you would fill with a meat skewer, vegetables and a spring roll.
