Mỹ Sơn (pronounced mee-sun) is the site of the ruins from the Champa kingdom, about 50km from Hoi An. The Champa civilisation lived in the entral part of Vietnam from the 4th to 13th century until they were wiped out by the Kinh Vietnamese. There are about 100 000 Cham people living as a minority group in Viet Nam today. The ruins here are similar to those of Ankor Wat (Cambodia) and Borobodur (Indonesia). The temples are for Hindu worship and their writings are similar to sanskrit.
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