Hoi An, historically was an old trading port. Surpassed by Danang. Danang is on the coast. Hoi An is close to the coast but trade is river based. Hoi An is one of few city in Vietnam still with an old quarter. The American seem to have left it alone during the Vietnam War - by the way, the war is referred to here as the American War.
The centre retains its French colonial style. Quaint but very touristic. We spent a day visiting the centre. I had a day off from my camera!
The 2nd day we went out the city for a half day trip to the ruins of My Son. The region used to be part of the old Cham Empire. A disappointment. Hard to be impressed after visiting the temples of Angkor.
We were leaving the next day to Hué but not until tthe afternoon. In the morning we headed to the beach. Sunny but very windy.
Yet again not great writing. I am so behind.. However there is at least the photos... Just a reminder that the photo on the blog from Vietnam include those taken by Cecilia, Alex & Nora
1 comments:
Intersting photos of the old quarter. What did you see from the people? I remember my sister being in Vietnam and seeing people on the streets with disabilities etc and she was quite saddened and disturbed by that. What's your take on all this Dan in the other contries you've visited?
I imagine when you get to Perth you'll have the same reverse culture shock that I did, (and probably many visiting this blog)when I had been travelling through Southern Africa for only 2 months. I found it hard to enjoy Perth, getting back into "Western civilisation" because of the culture being so different from South Africa and Zimbarbwe which was the Port I left from to fly to Perth.
Just food for thought. I'm not knocking Perth. I'd love to go back and explore Western Australia sometime...
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