Previous flood levels (Sorry we still can't turn the photos around, but if you click on them you should be able to.)Hoi An is a UNESCO World Heritage city. It is beside a river and every October the city floods.
They sell a set of tickets to historic buildings in the city and they are very easily visited on foot.
The meeting rooms and temples were interesting and some of the the old wooden houses are still being lived in after 100+ years and they have survived the annual floods because they are built of 'iron wood', a resilient native timber.
Many travellers come to Hoi An to have clothes made at one of the 200+ tailor shops. You can also have shoes made or buy any of the Vietnamese made brand label shoes sold in the numerous shoe shops. (It felt as though there were the same number as tailor shops!)
We took a tour to the old Cham ruins. They were badly damaged during the American war so there is not much detail on the remaining ruins.
A large fishing net on the river.They are harvesting the rice at present and after they have threshed the grains they are laid on the sides of the narrow roads or footpaths to dry in the baking sun. It is pretty difficult for the buses to move on these narrow rural roads as they have to avoid not only the drying rice, cows grazing the verges, ducks crossing the road, chickens and hens feeding on the rice, but also cyclists on the wrong side and old slow overloaded trucks! It is best to sit at the back of the bus so that you are not deafened by the very loud air horn and you don't have to watch what is ahead of you!
