Is Da Nang Worth Visiting? Here’s What To Expect
Da Nang puts the beach a ten-minute ride from a mountain full of marble caves and pagodas.
Da Nang puts the beach a ten-minute ride from a mountain full of marble caves and pagodas.
Tran Phu Street runs along the beach for most of Nha Trang, and tucked among its hotels sits the city’s only 4D cinema, the kind where the seat jolts when something explodes on screen.
Ask a tuk-tuk driver for Tran Phu Night Market and ask a local for Chợ đêm Nha Trang, and you’ll end up in the same spot, stalls packed along the same stretch of pavement, grills already smoking by the time the sun drops behind the hills.
Hoi An’s Old Town streets turn into canals most years between October and November, when the Thu Bon River climbs over its banks and shopkeepers paddle supplies to their own doors.
The curve of Tran Phu Beach runs for more than six kilometers along downtown Nha Trang, and by 6am it’s already full of locals doing tai chi before the heat sets in.
Nha Trang Cathedral sits on a small hill above the city’s traffic, built entirely of stone at a time when most churches in Vietnam were still going up in brick and plaster.
Walk along My Khe Beach after 9pm and the only danger you’ll likely face is tripping over a beach chair in the dark.
A scooter idles beside you along the beachfront promenade, a hand slips into your bag for a phone, and it’s gone before you finish the sentence you were about to say to whoever you’re walking with.