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Since the 2025 merger, Hoi An's old town sits inside Da Nang's city limits. Choosing between them for a month or a year still comes down to floods, buses, crowds and how much city you want.
October is, on average, the wettest month by a wide margin. That doesn't mean four months of nonstop rain, but it does mean floods, landslides, rough seas and closures that can wreck a badly planned…
Ten kilometers from downtown, Son Tra is forest, endangered primates and some genuinely dangerous coastline. The routes reopened in 2025 with new rules. Here's how the peninsula works now.
From the city beach at My Khe to the reef at Nam O and the eroding sand at Cua Dai, the merged city's coast is a set of very different places. Here's what sets each apart, and the safety rules that…
Plenty of residents and visitors never touch a handlebar. Here's how ride-hailing, the bus network, the heritage train to Hue and your own two feet actually work, and where each one falls short.
Two terminals, a former air base, a new pre-arrival declaration and a terminal expansion that won't open until 2029. Here's how Da Nang International Airport works for arriving travelers.
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Ruined Cham temples, an imperial capital, islands, a mountain pass and a hill station. How far each one is, what it costs to get in and what to know before you go.
Opened in 2013 for about 1.5 trillion dong, the Dragon Bridge was built to move traffic across the Han River. It ended up as the city's logo, and its weekend show is now a tourist draw in its own…
For centuries, the mountain road between Da Nang and Hue was a frontier, then a fortress, then a bottleneck. A tunnel killed the traffic and a restoration brought back the gate. Here's what's fact and…
