Bãi Làng
Working fishing harbor and village on a remote island, guarded by a mortarless two-hundred-year-old freshwater well.
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This guide to Bai Lang on Cham Island, near Hoi An, centers on a stone well a short walk inland toward Xom Cam that has supplied fresh water for two centuries despite salt water on every side. It traces the well's likely construction by Cham engineers, long before this was a Vietnamese fishing village, and raises the question of why the island's other wells eventually turn brackish while this one keeps producing sweet water. Local tradition holds that an unmarried visitor who drinks from it, seven sips for a man or nine for a woman, will find their match within the year.
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