Hoi An: Back to Business
From trading centre to tourist centre, Hoi An has seen many changes, but preserved its heritage - and its entrepreneurial spirit - along the way. Keith Mundy strolls through the old city
Fai Fo was a bustling port in which Chinese and Japanese merchants traded silk, lacquer and porcelain with Indians and Europeans, worshipped at ornate temples and met at splendid clan houses. The streets were filled with traders from East and West, and Vietnamese in conical hats going about their daily [ read more ]
