Quan Cong Temple in Hoi An, Vietnam

A seventeenth-century pagoda dedicated to General Quan Cong.

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Vietnamese moped driver, Hoi An, Vietnam

Vietnamese moped driver in front of the Quan Cong Temple in Hoi An.

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Hainan Chinese temple in Hoi An, Vietnam

Founded by Chinese from the island of Hainan, or Hai Nam, and dedicated to unlucky passengers, who were killed in 1851 by a vietnamese general who plundered three merchant ships of the chinese. Also called Hai Nam Assembly Hall.

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Portrait of a boat woman in Hoi An, Vietnam

boat women in Hoi An, Vietnam

Japanese covered bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam

Inside the covered bridge are four statues: two dogs and two monkeys, which suggest that work began in the year of the monkey and ended in that of the dog.

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the Folklore Museum in Hoi An, Vietnam

some buildings, temples and details in the old town of Hoi An, Vietnam

at the Thu Bon River in Hoi An, Vietnam

getting out of a boat (Hoi An, Vietnam)

Vietnamese woman on the way to sell raincoats and umbrellas went out a little wooden boat in Hoi An.

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