Hoi An Ancient Town

Quảng Nam · Vietnam

Hoi An Ancient Town, Vietnam
Photo: Ryan Milani, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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November–March
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Lanterns glow at dusk along the shopfronts of Hoi An, a trading port that thrived between the 15th and 19th centuries and then, bypassed by history, simply stayed as it was. Chinese shophouses, a Japanese covered bridge and Vietnamese tube houses line a street plan little changed since its merchant heyday. UNESCO inscribed the ancient town in 1999.

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