Hai Chau Street - Da Nang, Vietnam (Cam 1)

This pan-and-tilt camera turns across a busy street in Hai Chau (Hải Châu), the central ward of Da Nang, taking in a local school, roadside shops and the motorbikes that fill the road from the morning school run onward.

Hai Chau takes its name from an old village founded in the late 1400s by settlers from a village of the same name in Thanh Hoa province, far to the north. Today it is the busy heart of the city.

The village communal house still stands among the modern streets on the left bank of the Han River. Its present building dates from 1904, and in 2001 it was recognized as a national historical and cultural relic.

Did You Know? Villagers first asked to build a communal house in 1804, but it was damaged during the French attack on Da Nang in 1858.

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