Took a tour to an old Hindu Holy site called My Son, about 2 hours from Hoi An. This was the major religious centre in the Cham Empire until about the 12th or 13th centuries, when the Cham were conquered by the Khmer. The temples were constructed around 400AD and are mainly brick. They withstood time reasonably well. The area is quite small compared with Angkor Wat in Cambodia and, as a result, was not very impressive. Nevertheless, their age and state of preser...

Flew from Hanoi to Danang in central Vietnam. Danang is close to the old border between North and South Vietnam and was a major U.S. air base during the Vietnam War. We were met by a guide and car and visited a museum dedicated to the Cham empire that ruled this part of Vietnam from about the 4th to the 12th or 13th centuries at which point the Khmer empire in Cambodia conquered this area and the Cham people dispersed throughout southeast Asia. We then drove t...