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Minh Pham
Hội An Cycling & Nature Guide
Minh leads the morning cycling rides from Nghê Prana through Cẩm Kim, the rice paddies, and the back roads to An Bàng. His writing covers the geography traveller-cyclists actually ride through — rural Hội An at handlebar height.
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Articles by Minh Pham
3 articles published
The Fishing Villages Around Hoi An: Whale Worship, Boat Songs and the Cầu Ngư Festival
The coastal communities around Hội An and Đà Nẵng worship the whale as a sea god and bury stranded whales with the rites of a village elder. Their spring festival, Lễ hội Cầu Ngư (the Whale God ceremony, Lễ tế Cá Ông), is national intangible heritage yet barely covered in English. We translate the belief, the rites, and the hát bả trạo rowing-song from Vietnamese sources, with notes from the fishing wards near our riverside hotel on the Thu Bồn.
Cycling Hội An: Five River-and-Paddy Routes for Travellers Used to the Donauradweg
Germany generates 5.5 million cycling holidays a year, worth €11 billion (ADFC Radreiseanalyse 2024). Hội An is the closest Asian counterpart on the substance — flat, riverside, signed, with five named loops radiating from a single base on the Thu Bồn. A DACH-traveller's guide to cycling Hội An from a riverside hotel that has ridden every loop.
Hidden Beach Hoi An: Exact Location, Directions, Prices and When to Swim (2026)
Hidden Beach is one named beach: the sand at the end of Kiệt 62 Lạc Long Quân, between An Bàng and Cửa Đại. The map pin, routes measured from the Old Town and from our riverside hotel, what loungers and parking cost, when to swim, and what the 2025 storms and 2026 sea-defence works changed.