A number of Hoi An's wooden buildings date from the first half of the 19th century or earlier. Imaginative visitors feel thai they have been transported back 3 couple of centuries to s time when the wharf was crowded with sailing ships, the streets teemed with porters transporting goods to and from warehouses, and traders from a dozen countries haggled in a babble of different languages. |
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Home, guesthouse, men's club, training centre, committee room and religious space - there are many uses for the soaring Bahnar communal house being built at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi Dr. Claire Sutherland reports. |
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Vietnamese architecture arises from the Kings Hung dynasty. |
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Hue has long been Vietnam's centre of wooden architecture and many of the buildings here, royal palaces included, are Ruong style. |
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