This is a pedestal of breasts on display at the museum. I can't quite remember the significance of the breasts but it is a very nice and quite spectacular piece of art.
We next visited the Marble Mountains which is a popular area for spiritual retreat and pilgrimage. There are a number of Buddhist pagodas there. The elements have formed many natural caves, inside of which sculptures have been placed and some converted to places of worship.
Here we are in front of three pagodas.
Our hotel at Hoi An, the Palm Garden Beach Resort, is another flash establishment. Just outside our room is the lily pond which is full of croaking frogs at night. It is a pretty sight and a not unpleasant sound in the evening.
A house in the old city in Hoi An. The balconies were a French addition to the old Vietnamese style houses.
The Japanese Bridge constructed in the early 1600s by the Japanese community to connect the island occupied by the merchants to the main city, roughly 40 years before they left the city to return to Japan under the strict policy of sakoku enforced by the Tokugawa Shogunate. The bridge was renovated in 1986 and it is considered the symbol of Hoi An.
We finally had a banh mi which was delicious with a crispy bun. Our current guide is a local and she took us to the best place to try one. Normally we have a set lunch of an array of dishes but today we went 'local' to have a banh mi.
The extensive swimming pool at the hotel.
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