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Browse more guides: Vietnam travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Vietnamese Hoi An UNESCO 1999 My Son UNESCO 1999 Champa Hue UNESCO 1993 Imperial Citadel 1804 and Central Vietnam Coast Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Vietnamese Central Coast - Vietnam's central coast Da Nang-Hoi An-Hue + 7 million population - preserves the most-significant Hoi An, My Son, and Hue heritage and the renowned lanterns. Major destinations: Hoi An UNESCO 1999 + 15-19th century trading port + 844 tile-roofed wooden houses and Japanese Covered Bridge 1593 + Phuc Kien Assembly Hall 1697 + Full Moon Festival 14th lunar month 7,000 lanterns , My Son Sanctuary UNESCO 1999 + 4-13th century Champa Hindu kingdom + 71 monuments 4 surviving Hue UNESCO 1993 Imperial Citadel 1804 + Forbidden Purple City + 13 Nguyen emperors 1802-1945 + Perfume River , Da Nang Marble Mountains 5 hills and My Khe Beach 30 km and Dragon Bridge 2013 666 m fire breathing weekly , Phong Nha-Ke Bang UNESCO 2003 + Son Doong w...

Browse more guides: Turkmenistan travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Turkmen Darvaza Gas Crater Ashgabat Merv UNESCO 1999 Konye-Urgench UNESCO 2005 Nisa UNESCO 2007 and Turkmenistan Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Turkmenistan sits at the southwestern edge of Central Asia, wrapped in the Karakum sand sea and bordered by the Caspian. It is one of the harder countries on earth to enter, and one of the strangest to wander once you do. The headline sights are the flaming Darvaza Gas Crater , the white-marble showpiece capital Ashgabat , the vast Silk Road ruin field of Merv (UNESCO 1999), the Khwarezm-era monuments of Konye-Urgench (UNESCO 2005), and the Parthian royal fortresses of Nisa (UNESCO 2007), with a longer arc adding Yangykala Canyon and the warm underwater pool at Kow-Ata . Plan a 7-9 day Turkmenistan trip - verify current advisory. Visa rules are strict. A Letter of Invitation (LOI) is required, processing usually runs around three weeks, and travel out...