Location · Central Vietnam
Da Nang & Hoi An
A clean coast, an old town full of lanterns, and the most reliable light in the country.
A clean coast, an old town full of lanterns, and the most reliable light in the country.
If you have four days in Vietnam and want the photographs to be easy, come here. Thirty kilometres of coast, an international airport, and Hoi An half an hour down the road.
Da Nang is the simplest place in Vietnam to work with couples who have flown in. You land, you are at the beach in twenty minutes, and the hotels are used to early starts and wet dresses. Hoi An gives you the other half: ochre walls, a river, wooden boats, and lanterns that come on at dusk and make the entire old town glow.
It is also the region where the weather behaves for the longest stretch of the year.
February to August is the window. Warm, bright, dependable, and the exact opposite of Hanoi's calendar, which catches couples out when they plan a two-city trip.
September to December is storm and flood season. Hoi An's old town floods most years, roads close and flights are cancelled. We would rather tell you that now than after you have booked.
Sunrise on the coast while the beach is empty, a long break through the hard light, then the old town in the late afternoon and into the blue hour. Six working hours, two locations. The price is USD 1,480 and it includes our travel, our accommodation and the car on the day.
It is the easiest beautiful place in Vietnam to work: a long clean coast, an airport with international flights, and the lantern-lit old town of Hoi An thirty minutes away. For couples with only a few days in the country, this is the region we suggest first.
February to August. The central coast runs on the opposite calendar to Hanoi: it is bright and dependable through the northern summer, and then September to December is storm and flood season, which we will ask you to avoid.
USD 1,480 for six hours, and that already includes our travel from Hanoi or Saigon, our accommodation, and a car on the day. There is no separate travel quote for this one.
Yes, and most couples do. The usual shape is sunrise on the coast, a break, then the old town in the late afternoon and into the blue hour when the lanterns come on.