Da Nang Cathedral

This guide to Da Nang Cathedral tells how a French priest named Louis Vallet hired carpentry crews from the village of Kim Bong in 1923 to raise the pink Gothic facade in front of you within months, using thousands of bamboo poles as scaffolding. It follows Vallet's brief time in the city before he left to build another cathedral in Nha Trang. It also looks at the weathervane crowning the bell tower, a rooster nearly every visitor misreads at a glance. Look up before you photograph it.