How many days do you need in Hoi An?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Hoi An.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Hoi An · 3 days Vietnam
Best time: February to April for dry, mild days.
The old townDay 1
📍9:00 AMJapanese Covered Bridge
The sixteenth-century roofed bridge with a small temple built into its span, the emblem of the town.
🚶 ~4 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
📍1:00 PMAssembly halls and merchant houses
The Chinese congregation halls and two-hundred-year-old trading houses along Tran Phu, still lived in behind the shopfronts.
🚶 ~2 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 381 ft
⛴️6:30 PMLanterns on the Thu Bon river
The riverfront at dusk, when the silk lanterns go on and paper candles are floated on the water.
Beach and countrysideDay 2
🌳8:30 AMAn Bang Beach
The wide sand strip north of Cua Dai, calmer and less eroded, with a line of simple beach shacks behind it.
🚶 ~30 min · 🚗 ~4 min · 1.1 mi
📍1:00 PMTra Que vegetable village
A working herb-growing village between the town and the beach, farmed on seaweed fertiliser from the lagoon.
🚗 ~11 min · 3.1 mi
📍5:30 PMCam Thanh water coconut palms
The nipa palm waterways east of town, worked from round basket boats.
My Son and the riverDay 3
📍7:30 AMMy Son Sanctuary
A cluster of brick Hindu towers built by the Cham between the fourth and thirteenth centuries, in a valley ringed by hills. Go at opening; it is hot and exposed by ten.
🚗 ~51 min · 14 mi
📍1:30 PMThanh Ha pottery village
A five-hundred-year-old pottery village on the river west of town, still turning and firing by hand.
🚶 ~42 min · 🚗 ~5 min · 1.6 mi
🍽️6:00 PMNight market on An Hoi
The lantern market across the footbridge, plus the grilled-seafood stalls behind it.
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