Lost in Hoi AN

Well, I am not literally lost, just a little lost with my pictures. Basically, we have been waiting for things to open, and a couple of days ago, they started to reopen after the TET holiday. 

So, in order, we walked (shopped) around three days ago and found that a lot of the community temples and houses had opened, but not the main tourist attractions. 

Plaques outside the community house 

 

A fountain in the community house.

Kerry at the happiness table. 

The alleys of Hoi An. The alleys give a respite from the crowds until a crowd comes by, and then three scooters. 

 

Hoi An is a historic shipping port. So there are replica ships in a lot of the community houses. 

So, what is a community house? It is a unique type of building that serves as the spiritual and social heart of a village or neighborhood. In Hoi An, these structures are particularly significant because they blend the town's complex history as a 15th-century trading port with traditional Vietnamese culture.

In the picture above, you can see incense coils that you purchase and light for your family members. These conical ones burn for weeks. In the middle are papers with the names and birthdates of your family members and ancestors. They represent the prayer for them being open for the life of the coil, which can burn for 2 weeks to a month. There were so many in this house below that my eyes were burning from the smoke, and I was outside! 

Two days ago, we did more shopping (walking), looking for the tourist attractions, and found a Folk House, another community House, the Museum, and a folk show. The Hoi An Museum opened along with a few more community houses.  

Folk Museum

Hoi An Museum has not too much. It is kind of sad actually for a museum.

This is a little game of BINGO that they play at the folk theater. Neither of us won. 🏅 

Yesterday, we took a pool day and sat at the pool all day. Today, we will ride our bikes to the beach.

Looks an awful lot like my last pool day