The maritime silk road and the temples of Vietnam

Karsts rising from the water, lanterns and the Mekong delta.

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Barrio antiguo de las 36 calles
Each street was given over to a guild and many still are: one for bamboo, one for silk, one for tin.
Templo de la Literatura
Vietnam's first university, from 1070. The stelae on stone tortoises carry the names of its doctors from 1442 on.
Lago Hoan Kiem
The centre of the city's life, with the temple on its islet. At weekends it closes to traffic and everyone comes out onto the street.
Marionetas de agua
A thousand-year-old art born in the flooded paddies: the puppeteers work the figures standing in the water, behind a curtain.
Train Street
The train passes centimetres from the houses twice a day. Access has been restricted for safety: you can only go in as a customer of the licensed cafés.

Crucero con noche a bordo
Almost 2,000 limestone islets. Sleeping on board is what separates the real bay from the day trip full of boats.
Cueva Sung Sot
The “cave of surprises”, three enormous chambers found by the French in 1901.
Isla Ti Top
Four hundred steps up to the viewpoint the whole bay is seen from, with the boats below.
Kayak entre los karsts
The only way into the inner lagoons, which no boat can reach.

Ciudad antigua con farolillos
A port on the maritime Silk Road and a World Heritage site. On the full moon the electric lighting is switched off and only the lanterns are left.
Puente Cubierto Japonés
From 1593, built by the Japanese community to reach the Chinese quarter. It appears on the 20,000 dong note.
Sastres a medida
Hundreds of workshops will sew for you in 24 or 48 hours. It is the textile tradition of the silk port, now the city's calling card.
My Son
The fourth-century sanctuary of the Champa kingdom, set among mountains. Badly damaged by the bombing of 1969, and standing even so.

Mercado flotante de Cai Rang
Each boat hangs what it sells from a pole so it can be seen from a distance. You have to set out at five in the morning: by nine it is over.
Canales del Mekong en barca pequeña
The narrow arms no large boat can enter, between stilt houses and orchards.
Fábrica de fideos de arroz
You see the whole process, from the batter to the drying in the sun, in family workshops beside the canal.
Huertos frutales del delta
Rambutan, mangosteen and durian eaten off the tree. The orchards open to visitors and it is the stop on the way back from the floating market.

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