Showing posts with label hoi an. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hoi an. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2007


A Hoi An house. A very interesting example of historical architecture duly preserved by the Governing Tourists Bureau in Development Central Vietnam to World Heritage Amazingness (rough translation... my Vietnamese's a bit rusty). This is just one of many ancient houses styled after a traditional local saying that can be (also) roughly translated as "Fox House Makes Peace Of Wind Harder". Central Vietnam is full of similar interesting trivia.

In some towns in Vietnam parents glue their kids to monuments in a very localized phenomenon which gives "tourist trap" a new meaning.
They ask you to take a picture and, once it's done, extend their hands and shout "money!".
They seemed too well dressed and healthy, no flies eating their eyelids away, so I decided to not encourage bumming at such an early stage of their development. That's consciencious 3rd world travelling for you.
Rule number one of the 3rd world consciencious traveller: don't interefere with local nature, leave it intact.