Thu Bon Riverwalk (Hoi An Old Town)
Riverside merchant quay of narrow shophouses, each built with a street door and a river door for cargo.
This guide to the Thu Bon Riverwalk in Hoi An's Old Town starts with a design repeated for seven hundred meters, a door to the road and a door to the water on every shophouse. It centers on eighteen seventy-two, when this stretch was formally named the Fujian Quay, and on a twist that does not match the postcard image of the town, by then Hoi An's great age of international trade was already fading as the Thu Bon river silted up and bigger ships shifted north to Da Nang. You'll hear what kind of cargo and traders still used this quay once the fortune had moved elsewhere. Look at how narrow and packed each shophouse is, built as its own private customs post.
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