Five panels,
one peninsula
full of weekends.
Nature & landmarks
24 places · pin them allLimestone mountains rising out of rice paddies, a peninsula full of monkeys, a 666-meter cable car. The greatest hits, in walking-distance order.
Food & culture
72 restaurants · 48 cafésMì Quảng with home-pounded shrimp paste, cortados that aren’t just espresso with milk, and a market where the bà ngoại will fix your bún cá in 90 seconds.
Day trips worth booking.
Mỹ Sơn · Bà Nà · Hải Vân · Lăng CôSome of these we’d rent a scooter for. Some we’d 100% pay GetYourGuide to drive us. Here’s the honest split — and the live pricing.
Hội An without the lanterns-only trap.
36 activities · sortable by crowd-levelThe old town is glorious before 9am and after 9pm. In between, we send people to An Bàng beach, a tailoring street that isn’t a tourist trap, and a basket-boat fisherman who’ll teach you how to spin one.
Old Town walking circuit
Three loops, from 90 minutes to half a day, with the Japanese Bridge, the Chinese assembly halls, and three tea spots most tours skip.
An Bàng beach club crawl
Three beach clubs we’d actually spend an afternoon at. Sun loungers, decent food, working showers, no buffet karaoke.
Coconut village basket-boat
The spinning-boat thing your TikTok already showed you, but at the smaller village 1.5km upstream that hasn’t been flattened by tour buses yet.
Water & beach
Surf · snorkel · paddle · just floatFrom beginner surf lessons at Mỹ Khê to diving at Chàm Islands. Plus the unsexy stuff: which beaches have lifeguards, which have currents, when the jellyfish season starts.
Working from Đà Nẵng.
Coworkings ranked by Wi-Fi speed (we ran iperf3). Visa runs, cafés that don’t kick you out, weekend escapes, and the messy bits about staying past 90 days.