Chau Doc’s Cham Village

All we did was cross the bridge from downtown Chau Doc, and everything changed. The people looked and sounded different, had a different style of dress and a different religion. We had arrived in Chau Doc’s Cham Village… and it had nothing to do with the Vietnam we’ve come to know.

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The Cham once ruled Central Vietnam, but today they’re an ethnic minority in this country, and in neighboring Cambodia. They speak an Austronesian language that has more in common with Samoan than Vietnamese. And...