Built in the late Sixteenth Century by Japanese merchants in the southern central Vietnamese port town of Hoi An (a stop on the old Silk Road), the bridge is said to have supernatural powers, perhaps owing to the monkey and dog gods that guard its either ends. Clicking through a passel of photos, taken by Snoopy the Goon on a recent family tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia, I recognized the bridge immediately. Although I think it was a different pastel color when I knew it as an Army advisor in 1969-70. Posted with STG’s kind permission.
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