Hoi An

Hoi An Hoard, Part One - The Excavation

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:00:00 +0000

During the 15th century, off the Hoi An coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea, a trading vessel filled with porcelain vanished without a trace. Five hundred years later, in 1999, as a storm swept...

Hoi An Hoard Images

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:11:00 +0000

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Hoi An Hoard, Part Two - The Collection

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:07:51 +0000

When divers finally finished their job of excavating a fifteenth-century shipwreck off the Hoi An coast of Vietnam in 1999, they'd made history. The underwater archaeological techniques they had used...

Raise the Red Lantern

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:25:46 +0000

It was by the light of the full moon and thousands of silk lanterns that I first saw Hoi An, one of the oldest towns in South East Asia. To celebrate and venerate the ancient town's history, as on...

Hoi An's Tam-Tam Café

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 1997 07:00:00 +0000

With characteristic entrepreneurial spirit, the residents of Hoi An are taking the foreign tourist invasion in stride. A whole range of businesses have sprung up, including guesthouses, restaurants,...

A New Guide to an Old Treasure: Ancient Town of Hoi An

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 1996 07:00:00 +0000

The Traditional Village in Vietnam will provide you with an excellent overview of village life in Vietnam. Once you've read this book, visited some rural villages, and acquired a sense of their...

Hoi An Hoard, Part Three - The Theories

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:15:00 +0000

When 244,000 pieces of porcelain were finally excavated from a shipwreck off the Hoi An coast of Vietnam in 1999, it was relatively easy for archaeologists to trace the source of the pottery to one of...

Hoi An Interlude

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 1997 07:00:00 +0000

Day One Wind rushes through the open windows of our taxi. It smells of freshly turned earth and the not too distant South China Sea. It rattles the high pine needles and plays brittle melodies in the...

The Almost Forgotten City of Hoi An, Vietnam

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:51:16 +0000

Hoi An, Vietnam, is a beautiful small city that retains a lot of its past with preserved European...

Driving Highway One: Hoi An

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 1995 08:00:00 +0000

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Backpacker Trail

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Sep 1998 07:00:00 +0000

One morning in Nha Trang I fell into conversation with a young Italian traveler named Alessandro. "You heading north or south?" I asked. "South to Saigon," Alessandro said. "And you?" "North to...

Baked Potatoes

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:59:41 +0000

Hoi An,2005. Hoi An is a World Cultural Heritage site. Long ago, Hoi An was a major trading post on the South China Sea.Much of the buildings from this era remain. The town gives you the flavor of a...

Finding Treasure in Hoi An

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:54:46 +0000

Hoi An, 2005. My wife and I like to walk around and explore wherever we go in Vietnam. On this day we are down near the river. We are talking to a young man that we met a year before. He sold...