The old town of Hoi An stretches out along the Song Thu Bon River. A mixture of Chinese, French Colonial, Japanese and Vietnamese architecture give the ancient town an interesting character. The central markets run from before dawn till after dark. Every imaginable vegetable is available. Some weird cuts of meat, live ducks, chickens, fish, prawns and crabs are also for sale. Everything is fresh each day and the activity is mesmerising.
Old Japanese Bridge
Fresh Fish
Meat and Cigarettes
Boat Lady
River Sunrise
For a few dollars this old lady will ferry you across the river.
Morning Fishermen
Boats along the River
Fresh Frogs
River Boatman (Hums Tom Waits Tunes)
Cast net Fisherman
Purple lanterns.
Cigarettes and Incense 
Purple Lanterns and Bougainvillea 
Fishing Fleet
Red Bridge cooking School where we cooked ourselves a feast and all became Vietnamese cooking experts.
Lunar Festival Dinner
Lunar Festival Paper Lanterns
Lunar festival
Wooden boats
Afternoon Market
Splashing Paint 
These are great photos John plenty of reference for some great paintings.
Wow, what a wonderful post, beautifully captured
John, what are your two (?) long lenses?
Hi Faith – What a great fortnight!
The two main lenses I use are the Canon EF 24-105 1:4 L IS USM and the Canon EF 400mm 1:5.6 L (sometimes with a Canon 1.4 converter attached) This set up is a great for traveling, being reasonably light and portable. The zoom does a good job on most things. For distant subjects the 400 can generally be hand held at 1/1600sec and give a good sharp shot even wide open. The full frame camera means the ISO can be pushed up in bad light and not become too noisy.
Hope you had a good flight back to France. We arrived home 7:30 this morning – full flight and cold, so not much sleep.
Cheers,
John
Wow John looks wonderful.
Beautiful photos!!!! Love them!! And hoian is my favourite city in Vietnam actually, so glad that I have found your blog. Keep up the good work!
Cheers
Awesome photos!
Great work John. Lovely images telling a great story.