

10 Getting from Hue to Hoi An: Which is the Best Way?.9 Cam Kim Island: The Peaceful Countryside of Hoi An.5.2 Experience in the Venice of Vietnam.4.3 What to Do in Hoi An Ancient Town at Night.4.1 Hoi An Lantern Boat Ride Experience.Last but not least, an experience on a boat to sightsee around flooded Unesco heritage can be one of the lifetime. Both places are decorated by uncounted, colorful lantern lights. After it’s dark, nobody misses out on a lantern boat to view the gorgeous beauty of the town and nearby canal. To know more about the local industry, a ride to two famous handicraft villages Thanh Ha and Kim Bong should be the choice. In the daytime, travelers can get a ferry across the Thu Bon River to land on serene Cam Kim Island and start a self-guided cycling tour. This travel guide aims to introduce all boat rides in Hoi An Old Town and details about each. That convinced Unesco to add Hoi An into its World Heritage Site list in 1999. This unfortunateness made the town a backwater where nearly everything was kept intact. Sadly, its entrance to the world, the estuary later became shallower and narrower that didn’t support traffic and led to serious decline in commerce. They felt a convenience to access it too. Before the early 19 th century, Hoi An was a busy international trading town where merchants from other regions of Vietnam and different continents came to trade. Thanks to this location, boats from upstream and downstream areas are easy to get to. It’s also near the mouth of this river (called Cua Dai or “large estuary”), a few kilometers away to the east.

Hoi An town sits by the left bank of the Thu Bon River, the largest and most important waterway in mother Quang Nam province.
