Wooden sailing junks have undergone a resurgence in Vietnam on the strength of a booming tourism economy, Ian Lloyd Neubauer, a writer based in Bali, Indonesia, writes from Hanoi. But the resurgence might be short-lived. "After a series of fires and sinkings, including one in 2011 that cost 11 lives, Vietnam will phase out junks within five years, to the distress of the charter operators," he writes after taking a cruise aboard CAT BA IMPERIAL, one of Vietnam's new generation of wooden-hulled junks.
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