Thursday, March 25, 2010
Vietnam - Hoi An and Hue
Hoi An is Vietnam how it used to be, and as many may choose to remember it best. Original structures and culture are both well preserved. The town is supported mainly on handicrafts, specifically tailored clothing, woodcarving and ceramics.
This is the spot to be pampered with minions of tailors to 'suit' your needs, so it was in good taste that we chose to do so. Grant and I are both in the same situation where we will be looking for work when returning back home, and with these fine new threads, it shouldn't be hard to do so:
Workers spend hours chiseling away to create intricate woodcarvings. Most have worked at this trade so long that they can create clones of the same work from memory:
Ancient Cham ruins a few hours from town. We had the most intense guide that could make any sentence absolutely gripping with his movie-trailer style narrative:
The location was believed to be an outpost for Vietcong, so unfortunately the ruins were in fairly poor shape due to bombing raids done by the US in war time.:
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