The airline pricing gods have decreed that I must stay in Đà Nẵng for one more day, so I will overnight in the cheapest place by the airport I found, because I will take an early flight on Tuesday to Laos. Yes: bye-bye Vietnam.

Museum of Cham Culture

Meantime, I spent much longer than I expected to in this museum today. The Champa people still live across Cambodia, Vietnam and to a much lesser extent Thailand, China and Laos.

But their history goes back as far as the second century. Ruins and artefacts from the 6-7th and 10-11th centuries are displayed in this museum, having been discovered around Đã Nẵng by accident and excavation in the early 19th century. Notably, the site at Mỹ Sơn is considered to be comparable to Angkor Wat complex; however, whatever was left of Mỹ Sơn was almost completely destroyed by American bombing during the American-Vietnam war.

I cannot do justice to descriptions of the artefacts, so I will just present here a few, alongside the guiding text that was offered.

Perhaps my favourite, though, were these lions. Terrifying(ly camp).