Our all day excursion started with a bicycle tour through fields and farms heading to the ancient town of Hoi An, an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hoi An definitely lived up to its reputation. It was pretty and ancient and intense. Our guide took us to some highlights: a buddhist temple, the oldest house in town and a silk house.
At the house there was a family preparing food and telling us how it would have been done hundreds of years ago. Taxes were paid on the width if your house and number of windows, so a tiny entry way led to an open air courtyard with space around it to the food area in the back. No windows.
At the silk house we saw the process from the silkworms to the final embroidery, including the worms, harvesting the cocoons, unraveling the thread to spinning the silk and even embroidering it.
On the way back we stopped at a marble company. The mountains around Da Nang, known as ‘The Marble Mountains’ supposedly has some of the best marble in the world.
Even though it was slightly rainy by now, we also made a quick stop at Danang Beach. Stunningly pretty.
We had a quick stop at the marble company. Da Nang has some of the best marble in the world from the ‘Marble Mountains’ that surrounds it.
There was no way to get anything from there back in our carry-ons.
