Enjoy your own time after many days of challenging mountain hills, explore the charming town on foot through narrow streets with plenty of lanterns, and along rivers and canals. The culture & heritage is predominantly from the Cham people whose kingdom originally stretched from Hue South to Phan Thiet (South of Nha Trang) - the Champa's most likely originally from Java. The original Cham political capital was Tra Kieu, the commercial capital was Hoi An, and the spiritual capital was My Son (Hindu). With more than 2,000 years of history, Hoi An was the principal port of the Cham Kingdom, which controlled the strategic spice trade with Indonesia from the 7th to the 10th century and was a major international port in the 16th and 17th centuries - and the foreign influences are discernible to this day. The Cham people were Hindu, and by the 10th century, the influence of Arab traders to Hoi An resulted in some converting to become Muslims.