Central Vietnam Complete Guide 2026: Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An, My Son, Marble Mountains and Ba Na Hills
Browse more guides: Vietnam travel | Asia destinations Central Vietnam Complete Guide 2026: Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An, My Son, Marble Mountains and Ba Na Hills TL;DR I planned my Central Vietnam run around one stubborn fact: three UNESCO World Heritage sites sit inside a 100 km radius between Hue, Hoi An and My Son, and Da Nang International Airport drops you in the middle of them. You fly into Da Nang, sleep in Hoi An or Da Nang, and reach every headline site by road in under two hours. Hue gives you the Imperial Citadel (UNESCO 1993), the Forbidden Purple City and the Nguyen Dynasty royal tombs from 1802 to 1945. Hoi An gives you a lantern-lit Old Town (UNESCO 1999), the Japanese Covered Bridge from 1593 and the country's most reliable tailor shops. My Son (UNESCO 1999) shows Cham Hindu brick temples built between the 4th and 13th centuries. Da Nang itself does modern Vietnam: the 666 m Dragon Bridge from 2013, the Ba Na Hills Golden Bridge from 2018 and the world's longest ...