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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 Beaches Near Hoi An: 6 Quiet Stretches Locals Swim (and How to Find Them)
Everyone knows An Bang. The hidden beaches near Hoi An sit just a few kilometers up or down the same coast — softer sand, no resort loungers, and on a Tuesday morning in March, no one but a fisherman mending a net. Here are six the local cycling guides actually use, with directions, swim conditions, and the best month to visit each.