Historic site · Hội An ancient town, Đà Nẵng
Tấn Ký Old House
Tấn Ký Old House is an old house of several connected sections at 101 Nguyễn Thái Học street in Hội An's ancient town.
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Vietnam•Town
Hội An
Hội An is a historic port town on the Thu Bồn river in central Vietnam, known to Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and Italian traders of the 16th and 17th centuries as Faifoo, according to the Hội An World Heritage Conservation Centre. Wikidata records the city of Hội An as dissolved on 1 July 2025, and the centre now gives its own address as Hội An ward, Đà Nẵng city.
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Vietnam
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Town
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Bridge · Hội An ancient town, Đà Nẵng
Japanese Covered Bridge (Chùa Cầu)
The Japanese Covered Bridge (Chùa Cầu) is a roofed wooden bridge with a shrine over a small stream in Hội An's ancient town, at the junction of Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Trần Phú streets.
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Mountain · Ngũ Hành Sơn, Da Nang
Marble Mountains (Ngũ Hành Sơn)
The Marble Mountains (Ngũ Hành Sơn) are a group of limestone and marble hills with caves and pagodas in Ngũ Hành Sơn ward, south-east Da Nang.
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Bridge · Hải Châu / An Hải, Da Nang
Dragon Bridge (Cầu Rồng)
The Dragon Bridge (Cầu Rồng) is a bridge over the Hàn River in central Da Nang, between Hải Châu and An Hải wards.
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Beach · An Hải, Da Nang
Mỹ Khê Beach
Mỹ Khê Beach is a sandy beach on Da Nang's seafront, in An Hải ward along Võ Nguyên Giáp and Trường Sa streets.
23 km in a straight line
Museum · Hải Châu, Da Nang
Museum of Cham Sculpture
The Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture is a museum of Champa stone sculpture at 2 Tháng 9 Street in central Da Nang, in a building first completed in 1916.
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Travel Guide01
Hội An Ancient Town ticket: what it covers, as the heritage centre states it
According to the World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre that sells it, Hội An's old-town ticket is a bundle of chosen visits, but the centre's Vietnamese and English pages do not describe the same ticket. This guide sets out what each page says the ticket gives, how the pedestrian-street rules and festival exceptions sit beside it, and what XTOUR cannot confirm.
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Travel Guide02
Hội An museums: what each one shows, as the heritage centre describes them
Hội An's heritage centre runs a small system of themed museums in old-town houses, from Sa Huỳnh burial jars to trade ceramics, folk crafts and a traditional pharmacy. This guide sets out what each one shows in the centre's own words, where its two websites disagree, and which museum its current page says is closed.
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Travel Guide03
Tết Nguyên Tiêu in Hội An: the first full moon festival and national heritage
Tết Nguyên Tiêu, the festival of the first full moon of the lunar year, is what Hội An people call 'the Tết after Tết', and since 2023 it has been on Vietnam's national list of intangible cultural heritage. This article sets out what Hội An's heritage centre says happens, where, and how it differs from the monthly old-town night.
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Travel Guide01
Bài chòi: what UNESCO lists, and where Hội An plays it
Bài chòi is central Vietnam's sung card game and performance art, inscribed by UNESCO in 2017 as 'The art of Bài Chòi in Central Viet Nam'. This article sets out what the UNESCO listing says, how Hội An's heritage centre describes the game, and where the centre's own programmes include it.
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Travel Guide02
Champa and the Cham towers explained
Champa was a kingdom of the central Vietnamese coast whose kings built brick temple towers to Shiva from the 4th century onwards; Mỹ Sơn, inland from Hội An, was its chief religious centre. This article explains what the towers are and what they were for, where the official pages XTOUR has read place Champa sites, and how the living Chăm pottery craft that UNESCO lists today fits beside them.
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Travel Guide03
Cù Lao Chàm and the Cù Lao Chàm – Hội An biosphere reserve: what is what
Cù Lao Chàm is a group of small islands off the Hội An coast; the Cù Lao Chàm – Hội An World Biosphere Reserve is a much larger UNESCO designation that also takes in the whole of Hội An's mainland. This guide separates the two, sets out what official pages say about the islands, and where those pages disagree.
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Travel Guide04
Hội An or Đà Nẵng as a base, and why Hội An addresses now say Đà Nẵng
Since mid-2025 Hội An's official addresses read 'Đà Nẵng city', but the heritage town and the coastal city are still two different places to stay. This guide sets out what official pages say each base offers, what the 2025 merger changed and what it did not, and what XTOUR does not know.
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Travel Guide05
Vietnam's 2025 province mergers: why heritage sites changed their addresses
In 2025 Vietnam cut its provinces to 34 and moved to two levels of local government, so heritage sites now give addresses that look wrong next to older pages: Hội An in Đà Nẵng, Phong Nha in Quảng Trị, wards where there used to be districts. This article shows what the official pages say, old and new, and what XTOUR does and does not infer from them.
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Travel Guide06
Vietnam's seasons by region: north, centre and south, as official sources state them
Vietnam does not have one rainy season. The national tourism authority's month bands and the national hydro-meteorological forecasting centre's bulletins together show a north with a cold, drizzly winter, a central coast whose main rains come in autumn, and a south with a rainy season through the middle of the year. This article sets out what each body says, where they differ, and where official forecasts and storm warnings are published.
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Travel Guide07
Vietnam travel guide: where to base yourself
XTOUR plans Vietnam around the cities and towns you sleep in: Hanoi in the north, Hue and Hoi An or Da Nang in the centre, Ho Chi Minh City in the south, with Ha Long, Phong Nha and the Ninh Binh sites reached from a base. This guide says what each base is for, which sites linked to a base lie outside it, where official pages still use pre-2025 place names, and which XTOUR guide takes over.
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Travel Guide08
Vietnam's World Heritage sites: what XTOUR can source from official pages
UNESCO's own list pages refused XTOUR's requests, so this article is built from what each site's managing body and the Thăng Long heritage centre say about recognition. It covers seven properties with readable official pages, names the ones XTOUR could not source, and notes where official pages disagree.
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Travel Guide09
Chùa, đền, đình, miếu, lăng: Vietnamese heritage words as official bodies use them
Vietnamese heritage signs name a building by what it is for: who is worshipped there, which community gathers in it, whose remains it holds. This article explains chùa, đền, đình, miếu, phủ, hội quán, nhà thờ họ, lăng and Văn Miếu from the way Vietnamese heritage bodies use them on their own pages, including the cases where a name misleads.
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Destination information last verified: October 11, 2026
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