Btw if someone could recommend which of those two areas is better to stay for a month I’d appreciate 🙏🏻

Please give advice traveling to ho Chi Minh for the first time

I've only been here two days, so I can't really give much advice yet, but I will say that it might be helpful to pick up some cash. This cafe accross from my Airbnb only takes cash and it's a nice looking cafe, not like a super local thing. So probably good to have like 1m or something on you

You could do D1 or Binh Thanh. Grab cars are available at night too, so don’t worry about having to stay near nightlife etc.

Also #2 on the nomadlist ranking, makes sense.

Staying in son trah closer to the beach side. Waking distance to that space. It's pretty convenient

Is da nang just rats, broken roads, bad traffic and mediocre beach?

or did i miss something when I went there on november (yeah it was not the high season, so this I think influenced my view)

but yeah, i did some tour there with getyourguide, but after that, what are you doing in da nang?

does it have places to party like in thailand?

the accomodations were hard to find, there is insects issues, even the hotels in front of the sea aren't so good

what do you usually do in da nang?

and when i just went a bit away from the beach (where there were rats, but whatever, i got used to it).. it was just all like outskirts of the city

I've been in my an / my khe i don't remember, anyway the area that is shown as "main area" on nomadlist

in that time anyway i've never seen people swimming in the sea, and i didn't swim there too

probably with sun it's better

but anyway , here in phuket i can go to kata beach for example, then if i want to go out i go to bangla road, that's it but at least i have something to do?

i'm genuinely asking

maybe i was missing something

Must be.

coffee shops is just distraction instead of work, for me at least, if i have to go out i don't go out with my laptop, and if i do maybe yeah but just with a good view or something, outdoor not in a coffee shop

also coffee culture, i don't understand what people mean

because as much as i've seen, at least both in thailand and vietnam, coffee seems to be brown water, and if there is some milk in it it's waterish strange-flavoured milk that is mostly imported powdered from the west and not good to the taste, with a 2 or 3 exceptions i researched

idk if that's american coffee how you do in america or in other parts of europe, i never tried it there, but i tried it in cofee shops in thailand and vietnam

(i'm from italy)

from real life

I asked: what's there to do in da nang
You answered: coffee shops

and not so precise thiings like "vibrant nomad community" (like nomads hugging and jumping and kissing and dancing ? what does it mean? lol)

how can strangers be vibrant? at maximum they can act kind or want to enjoy some experience together. that's normal? It also depends on the person


What is "vietnamese authentic lifestyle"?
Are other lifestyles not authentic? Lol
It's like when foreigners come to italy and talk about "italian authentic lifestyle". Yeah that's advertisement/stereotype/ig reels? It's not that you go to vietnam and magically you are in a tiktok video. You go out, you walk, you have roads under your feet, there is a blue sky, people have two legs and two hands (mostly)


Lol. "vietnamese authentic lifestyle"? You mean, just vietnamese people? Okay, the people were good, I can agree. Or you mean fake experiences to feel "authentic"?

Food variety on a good standard? Yeah in some places food was okay, but the quality of ingredients was not always the best. I liked a lot bun cha ha noi, until after having it some times I started to feel the low quality fat of the meat in my mouth. Few dishes were okay , yeah good, but it's not to me that they were better than italian food (from south of italy for example) or japanese cuisine. That's tastes, okay

I felt a bit "scammed" by videos of nomads saying how da nang is so amazing with color corrections on their videos making it seem so unbelievable and with so many things to do

It's a beach. With a sea. Some asian people. Some tourists. You go away from the beach, it's mostly a broken city/road/buildings with bad traffic around. I did some guided tour, went out in some places, etc, I even did karaoke with a random family that singed together with me. Okay. But I haven't found much else

I also was there during low season so yeah maybe now there are more events to do etc because there is higher tourism. Okay that's nice

That seems interesting

And for the authentic local things, yeah, idk how much living there a couple weeks or a couple months as a foreigner with much more money than the average local, can be an authentic local experience. I never tried to feel "authentic" and local. I'm authentic just as I am lol. I won't ever be an"authentic vietnamese" cause I'm not vietnamese and I come from a privileged country compared to theirs, so it's not a "local experience" imo, it's just not getting scammed. I thought this was normal.. like.. "not getting scammed" is not "authentic local experience", it's just not getting scammed

This thing I also see with americans coming to italy. If you go to italy and eat a pizza you're not an authentic italian. If someone gets you to think that, that's a scam lol. You're just eating a pizza in italy that is not a scam (fake bad overpriced pizzas that some bad people sell to tourists). This makes sense. "authentic local experience" seems just marketing words, to me


The authentic local doesn't do most of those activities, probably. So they are anyway targeted to foreigners/tourists/nomads

Or do both lol

Everything great, AC, food, very fast Wi-Fi

My test results from yesterday

Almost 400mbps upload as well

Lmk what you’re looking for and I can advise

Some people are introverted and need the structure

No way it can be that green otherwise 😅

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