Chapter 01
The tailors remember your measurements
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Destination · Vietnam
Hoi An, Vietnam
The town that slows time down
A UNESCO trading port where the lanterns still go out every full moon and the tailors still remember your measurements.
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Climate
Hot and humid most of the year, with a genuine rainy season from October to December that floods the old town streets and locals treat as unremarkable.
Best season
February through April — the dry season is settling, the heat hasn't yet become punishing, and the jacaranda-light mornings on the Thu Bồn are as good as it gets.
Atmosphere
- coastal
- tropical
- small-town
- old-world
- colonial-layered
- spiritual
- walkable
- culinary
- artsy
- maritime
- early-rising
- lush
The chapters
11 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Cao lầu exists only here
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Chapter 03
The old town closes its streets at dark
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Chapter 04
An Bàng is the beach the town forgot
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Chapter 05
Light here has its own agenda
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Chapter 06
Mỹ Sơn asks for a full morning
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Chapter 07
Full moon comes fourteen times a year here
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Chapter 08
The well water is not a metaphor
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Chapter 09
Learn the dish before you eat it
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Chapter 10
Huế rewards the hour on the train
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Chapter 11
Luang Prabang has the same problem, differently solved
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Keep wandering
You’ve finished Hoi An. Where next?
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