Nha Trang guides

The long pieces: comparisons, explanations, and the things that have just changed while everywhere else still prints the old version. Nothing here expires — unlike the news section, where every post carries a last day.

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  Getting around Nha Trang: four things the old guides missed

  The bus network stopped, 27 wards became four, Ninh Thuan merged into Khanh Hoa, and two islands were closed to tourism. Four changes, and three questions that tell you when the page you are reading was really written.

  Posted 13 Sept 2026

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  Diving in Nha Trang: Hon Mun shut in 2022, so where do you dive?

  Swimming and diving around Hon Mun stopped on 27 June 2022 and had not reopened by July 2026 — yet tours still sell the reef. Where the four permitted areas are, and the one question that replaces all the others.

  Posted 13 Sept 2026

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  Three islands or four: the wrong question, and the right ones

  The island count is the easiest thing to compare, so everyone compares it — and it decides the least. What actually changes your day is the boat, the water-entry point and which tickets are included. Four questions to ask before paying.

  Posted 13 Sept 2026

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  Diep Son: the path in the photos is gone, and how to vet a tour

  The famous 800 m sandbar was destroyed by a typhoon in 2017; what is left runs about 400 m. It only surfaces with the tide, and the tide slips about 50 minutes a day — so a tour's departure time tells you by itself whether anyone timed it.

  Posted 13 Sept 2026

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  How many days in Nha Trang? Count the spare ones

  The usual method divides the attraction list by what fits in a day. It fails, because the very things people come for are the things that get cancelled: rough seas, wind, tides. Count spare days instead of sights.

  Posted 13 Sept 2026

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  Binh Ba and Binh Hung: tourism stopped, the tours still on sale

  In June 2026 Khanh Hoa ordered a stop to organising, promoting and selling trips to Binh Ba island, Hon Chut (Binh Hung) and Mui Hoi. Plenty of operators still sell them. Here is where to go instead.

  Posted 03 Sept 2026

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  Coffee in Nha Trang: six places, and what for

  A sea view, a place to work, a 20.000đ filter coffee, or a chair on the sand until 2am. The six cafés here do six different jobs. With what a drink costs and when they open.

  Posted 19 Aug 2026