Cam Kim Island
River island of boat builders and woodcarvers, reached only by ferry until a bridge arrived.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cam Kim Island, across the river from Hoi An's old town, follows six hundred years of boat building and woodcarving split between the island's two ends, Kim Bong's shipwrights and the carvers to the west. It traces how the island's isolation, reachable only by ferry until a bridge finally arrived, shaped a slower rhythm of rice paddies and quiet lanes even as Hoi An's port boomed nearby. You'll meet the craftsmen still carving their grandfathers' patterns today. Wander past the tourist stalls to the workshops still smelling of raw timber and river mud.
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