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Three days is Hoi An are just not enough to take in the city which was once Vietnam’s most important trading post.  Designated a world heritage site, old town Hoi An  has retained its old world charm and style.  Automobiles are prohibited from old town center making it perfect for walking  or renting a motorbike.  Many visitors come to have new clothes tailored (done,)

take a walking tour through old town (done,)

or maybe a boatride down the Bon river (done.) 

But by far the most memorable day was renting a motorbike and getting lost in the surrounding villages and country side where I met a wonderful family from Can Nam village

and later rode to the coutry side where an old rice farmer showed my his bountiful crop

Alas, we could not stay longer.  A four hour bus ride to the old North / South Vietnamese delineation city of Hue stopped at Marble Mountain.  Sometimes timing is pure luck, as when I walked into one of the mauntians’ cathedral caves to find few rays of sunlight swirling through incense smoke onto the marble platform below.