Hoi an hotels Vietnam

Hoi An is a town in Quang Nam province, which has many ancient quarters built from XVI century and remain almost intact until today. In December 4th 1999, UNESCO recognized Hoi An as the World Cultural Heritage. Hoi An has 7km of coast with many beautiful beaches that is an advantage for tourism development. It also has a large fishing-ground with abundant sea products and Cu Lao Cham with the famous salangane’s nest.

With a long history of development, residents living in Hoi An has gradually developed the various traditional trades as carpentry, art pottery, vegetables, medicine, making lanterns... There are many traditional villages in Hoi An such as Kim Bong carpentry village, Thanh Ha pottery village, Tra Qua vegetables village, Ma Chau weaving village, etc.

Museum is an important part of Hoi An as well. Some notable museums are History Cultural Museum, Ceramics Trade Museum, Sa Huynh Cultural Museum, etc.

Hoi An old town is an old town area in Hoi An city. It was built in XVI century. The typical relics of the ancient town of Hoi An are Bridge Temple, Tan Ky ancient house, Quan Thang ancient house, Phung Hung ancient house, Phuc Kiem society’s premises, Trieu Chau society’s premises, Quang Dong society’s promises, Guan Yin Buddhist Minh Huong Temple, Tran family temple, Truong family temple. In the previous time, there was usually ancient town moon night in the 1st and 15th every lunar month. Every house in the old town lighted the lanterns. Motorcycles were forbidden. Many interesting tourism activities were held. Nowadays, the ancient town moon night is held every week in the weekend.

Tourists can go to Hoi An from Da Nang by car or bus. It is only over 30km. Hoi An has many traffic services for tourists such as buses, taxies, trishaws. Visitors can also rent motorcycles, bicycles to visit Hoi An ancient town. The most interesting for tourists to visit Hoi An is walking around the neighborhood to feel the special characteristics of this place.