Monday, October 7, 2013

Hoi An and the clay flutes



Hoi An, a city that may have up to 500 tailors, and nearly every visitor increases their swag at least a little while they're here. I wasn't that keen on shopping but I happened to spy this coat I liked on the wall, so the girl sized me up right then and there and by the next day I was feelin fly.

We even rocked out to Gangnam style in the shop while she showed me pictures of her little kid. Reasons why I love Vietnamese people!


Pleased with my success, I pondered "in a place where I can get pretty much anything I want custom made, what is one thing I've always wanted?" Obviously Team Zissou fake adidas shoes.


Now let me tell ye a tale.

One night in Hoi An I was feeling alone. Traveling solo and all that, but I knew there is only one way to fix this problem. You must overcome your inhibitions and full on talk to some strangers and see what happens. Of course, alot of the time they are lamoes and you never talk to them again. But other times...


I decided to chill at the "eating and drinking area", my favourite place in Hoi An. There I encountered a group travelers - and I could sense the force was strong with them. I worked up the courage and sat down with them and it turned out they were pretty cool and we hit it off - by then the beer was flowing and many good times laid ahead!

The crew

One night, a lady came selling these clay animals that are flutes. After 3 evenings of trying to sell them to us without success, Dave from Holland finally said "I'll buy all of them!" 


If ever we were in need, we would simply blow our flute and our companions would rush to our aid.



That night we all went out to the Why Not Bar and many flute-choruses were heard through the night in celebration of this great life. 
This is how Germans party

Songkran festival

Songkran: a five day water festival of epic proportions in Thailand, the worlds greatest country. The city of Chiang Mai is about 1 million. During Songkran it doubles. Travelers have made a pilgrimage from all corners of our earth to this sacred Buddhist festival to celebrate life by taking the week off for a five-day water battle of epic proportions. Little photographic evidence was captured during the mayhem, below is all I have.






Most of the stuff that happened was WAY TOO EPIC for this blog anyway. 


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