This is my retire in Da Nang Vietnam for $872 per month information. This is Dan of Vagabond Awake, the YouTube channel for Vagabond Buddha. We are presently touring SE Asia investigating the best places to retire.
Although there will be a few challenges retiring in Da Nang, Vietnam, which I will cover, Da Nang is now one of my top 2 places to retire in Vietnam. Let me explain how I know this.
I have been traveling the world for 17 years now, 67 countries so far. I return to the USA for a week or two each year to see family and friends, but the rest of the year I keep moving forward showing you the best places to retire in paradise for pennies.
I have spent 7 months living and touring all over Vietnam from north to south. Without hesitation, I can tell you that Vietnam is a place where you can get a really big bang for your buck.
Vietnam is in the center of SE Asia facing the South China Sea. Da Nang has an international airport so it is easy to get there from overseas. We will be reporting on our other favorite city to retire in Vietnam next week, so subscribe if you want to learn more about that.
The local Vietnamese food is some of the most delicious and healthiest food in the world. We have been eating in the neighborhood restaurants for $1 to $2 per meal per person. Plus, my apartment in my favorite part of Da Nang is only $260 per month, only a few blocks from the beach.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in Vietnam is to eat a steady diet of Western-style food in the expat restaurants. Western-style foods cost 4 or 5 times as much as Vietnamese food, and in my opinion, are not as healthy, as Vietnamese food which contains a more healthy balance of fresh greens.
During our present month-long stay in Da Nang, Vietnam, the local restaurant food was so reasonably priced and delicious, we ate almost every single meal at our favorite local restaurants in Da Nang.
We only cooked one meal at home in a month, which is highly unusual for us, because we both enjoy cooking. But the Vietnamese restaurant food was so cheap and so delicious, that we couldn’t justify the extra time it would take us to shop, cook, and clean up.
But if you do decide to buy groceries and cook at home, you will find the best prices at the public market. Everything seems more fresh in the public market and the prices are often much cheaper. You can also walk to smaller open-air markets in your neighborhood to pick up fresh foods each day.
But avoid the expat grocery stores whenever possible. What costs you one dollar at a supermarket at home could easily cost you three dollars here. Remember, standard brands from home are imported foreign foods once they are shipped internationally.
So, only go to the expat grocery stores and malls for things you can’t find in the public market like hair and skin products, or once a month or so to get a few expensive imported foods from home that you miss.
If you don’t know how to find the best Vietnamese food in town just eat at our favorites. Then you’ll know what we are talking about. All of our favorite restaurants, markets, and malls are listed at the first link in the notes below this video.
It is just normal human behavior to want to eat the same foods you grew up with when you first move overseas. Especially if you won’t know what to order when you first open a Vietnamese menu. So you will be continually tempted to eat at the expensive expat-style restaurants.
But if you start with our local food favorites, you will quickly identify a variety of foods that locals eat, that you also enjoy. This will help you easily stay within your food budget. Just imagine if your daily food budget for three meals per day dropped to less than $5 per day per person. And most of these local restaurants include tea with their meals. It is mind-blowing.
And rents are no different. Locals easily find apartments for less than $200 USD per month. In one day of walking around, we found a furnished apartment in our favorite area with a kitchen, balcony, and washing machine for just $260 USD per month.
But don’t book 30-day stays on airbnb.com anymore. Internet-connected landlords are overcharging all over the world now. Just book a few days online and then find a local place once your feet are on the ground, this report explains how.
If you want more space, such as a townhouse, you will spend around $500 to USD 700 per month depending on square footage and amenities.
But stay away from the retire overseas gurus who try to get you to buy real estate when you first move overseas. You should just rent for the first year or two. You won’t believe how many expats have told me they wished they had waited much longer before making such permanent decisions. If someone is being pushy about real estate, it might mean they are getting a big kickback if they can get you to buy.
Cost of Living in Da Nang Vietnam
Here are our estimated costs of living converted into US dollars if the two of us moved to Da Nang year-round on a lower budget. We also include more typical expenses we have heard from other expats in case you want more typical expenses.
Rents: We rented our apartment for $260 per month. But other people we met more typically spent around $600 USD per month for a townhouse with 2 or 3 bedrooms.
Here is the process we use to find great apartments all over the world, but you can contact this agent if you want to rent the same one we did. So, we will show you a table of all expenses in a moment. We will use $260 per month for our lower rent estimate and $600 per month for the higher cost of living estimate.
Utilities: Our combined utilities for the month were $33.12 USD, but that was in the winter. We estimate around $80 per month for electricity as a year-round average, because AC will be more in the summer. The utilities would be about 120 USD for the larger place for a higher cost of living expats.
Groceries: As mentioned earlier, we went out to eat almost every meal while in Da Nang. But if we lived here we may spend a little more on groceries and cook at home, but still eat out at least 5 or 6 times a week. We would shop mostly in the public market where vegetables, fruits, and rice are cheaper. We estimate about $250 per month for groceries.
Other expats are likely to buy more expensive imported foods from home and more meats, so they would likely spend $350 per month in groceries.
Restaurants: If we went out to eat 5 or 6 times per week, mostly at local Vietnamese restaurants, and only once or twice per week in expat-style restaurants, we would spend around $60 per week or $240 per month in restaurants for the two of us.
Other expats are likely to eat more Western-style foods in expensive expat-style restaurants and less in Vietnamese restaurants, so they would likely spend $350 per month for 2 people.
Cell Phone Data: The cost to recharge our prepaid service is about $6 per month which includes 6GB of data per day. My Android phone will act as a hotspot so we can both be on the internet at the same time when we are out of the house together.
Other expats are likely to buy two prepaid sim cards so they would send $12 per month.
Laundry: Our apartment included a clothes washing machine and people hang dry their clothes in SE Asia. Since the laundry detergent is included in our grocery bill, there is no expense for this.
Drinking Water: We used a water filter we carry with us and the replacement filters cost about $3 per month. Qiang bought it on Shopee in Malaysia but this is the one on Amazon USA. Brita Pitcher Water Filter.
Internet: 30 MBPS up and down is about $10 per month for in-home wifi. It is advertised at 100 MBPS but the realized speed is about 30MBPS up and down.
Transportation: We walked almost everywhere in our favorite area of Da Nang (My An Beach). It was about $3 USD to get a Grab Taxi to downtown for shopping and malls, s $6 roundtrip. Even if we went roundtrip once per week it would not exceed $24 per month. Stay away from cooters unless you are highly experienced riding scooters in SE Asia.
Alcohol (Optional): Local beer is about 25,000 Dong in local bars and restaurants ($1 USD) and about 18,000 Dong in stores ($0.72 USD). So, we would spend about $90 per month on alcohol for the two of us.
Other expats would spend a higher amount for imported foreign or craft beers in expat bars for about $2 each, so about $180 per month for 2 people assuming they are not into imported whiskey or wine.
Entertainment (Optional): We would budget about $200 per month for entertainment for the two of us. We generally enjoy doing more do-it-yourself kinds of entertainment so most expats would spend a little more, maybe $300 per month, for 2 of them.
Retire Early $872 Month Da Nang Vietnam
| Da Nang Estimates | Lower
(USD) |
Higher
(USD) |
| Rent | 260 | 600 |
| Utilities | 80 | 120 |
| Groceries | 250 | 350 |
| Restaurants | 240 | 350 |
| Cell Data | 6 | 12 |
| Laundry | 0 | 0 |
| R/O Water | 3 | 3 |
| Internet | 9 | 9 |
| Transportation | 24 | 24 |
| Total | $872 | $1468 |
| Alcohol | 90 | 180 |
| Optional Total | $962 | $1648 |
| Entertainment | 200 | 300 |
| Optional Total | $1162 | $1948 |
The above lower estimated cost of living would be if the two of us moved to Da Nang on a tight budget. The higher above estimate is just an example of what other expats might spend if they moved here and were easy come easy go with their money. To fully understand what it would cost you to live here, you must do an exploratory visit and put your feet on the ground.
To get a better understanding of things you should add to our estimated cost of living watch this video: 9 Reasons You Can’t Retire on $1000 Month Overseas.
You should also add anything to the above table that you spend money on in your home country that is not listed in the above table. Presumably, you find those things necessary in life. To do that, visit the Numbeo Da Nang and add anything not mentioned in the table.
Never move anywhere until you have visited first personally to verify the living costs for your lifestyle and needs. I am not guaranteeing these prices. These are just my notes and estimates from the time of my visit and this post. Your costs will likely be drastically different depending on your lifestyle and the time since this post.
More typical ex-pat living costs in the Philippines range from about $1400 to $2400 per month. But people spending that much also have higher incomes or pensions. They often report spending more on entertainment, eating out, and alcohol. Many also have more expensive cars, houses, or apartments.
But many of you will likely be unable to retire on so little here. I give example reasons why in this report. This next report explains how to avoid coming home early with your tail between your legs.
Also, if you are going to try to retire cheap offshore, make sure to read my report, the Two Biggest Risks of Retiring Early for Cheap Offshore, which explains why you should have emergency funds available for unexpectedly large expenses.
Da Nang Livability Factors
Here are the factors I think about when I consider a place for early retirement potential. After I discuss each factor, I will assign an overall retirement desirability score to Da Nang. I am writing my observations about these factors based on my personal experience over the last month here and my last visit 4 years ago.
Walkability: High. Qiang Hui and I both fell in love with a little community about 15 minutes south of central Da Nang on the beach. The walkable streets we love (An Thuong) are in the red circle below in this (Google Map) area called My An. I would love to live here. Everything you need like restaurants, expensive and cheap, foreign and domestic foods, wet markets, and a gorgeous beach, would be extremely walkable.
Internet: High. The Internet Wifi has not been an issue in Vietnam. It is 30 Mbps up and down in our apartment in Da Nang. Unlock your phone before exiting the USA. Pick up a sim card that includes 6GB per day for just $6 USD per month. Typical of SE Asia, you are allowed to use your Android as a Hotspot for your computer if you get a dud Wifi connection anywhere.
Food: High. I love Vietnamese food. If you eat all three meals per day in restaurants (like we have), you can easily stay under $5 per day, per person if you eat the local food. But other expats, budget $10 to $15 per day per person because they eat 3 meals per day in Western-style restaurants
Weather: High. We love the weather here. Average daily highs range seasonally from 77F/25C in December to 94F/C34 in July. Average nightly lows range seasonally from 66F/19C in January to 78F/26C in June. The rainy season is September through November when at least some rain falls 15+ on more days of the month (20 days in October and November). If the heat is ever too much, just take a trip up to Da Lat, Vietnam to cool down. It is 4500 feet above sea level and rooms start at around $10-$15 per night. View our Da Lat report to know where to stay, eat, and play in the cooler weather.
Things to Do: Medium. Beaches, boats, fishing, hiking, biking, markets, learning to cook Vietnamese, join Expat groups (Internations, Facebook, etc), meditation, yoga, exploring restaurants, archaeological exploration, trips around Vietnam and SE Asia, snorkeling, scuba, coffee shops, dance classes, martial arts, museums, Monkey Mountain, Marble Mountain, bus to Hoi An, rent a scooter and explore backroads, check out the nightlife, and drink coffee or tea in a sidewalk cafe and people watch. Make sure to try the frozen coconut coffee.
Expats Community: High. There are about 30k people who have joined the four main Da Nang Vietnam Facebook Expat Pages. Page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4. There are often local people who also join Expat pages, but there should be enough people here to live an entire expat social life if that is your thing.
Even if you are less expat-oriented like me, these Facebook Resources are still great resources to find odds and ends in Da Nang that you miss from home. They are also a great place to buy and sell things, find a place to live, and find out things that only a foreigner who has lived in Da Nang for a few years would likely know about or be looking for locally.
Real Estate: High. A 700-square-foot apartment (65 Square meters) would sell in the range of ($67,000 $124,000 USD), according to Numbeo.com Da Nang. You will have to pay the higher end of that range as you approach the most expensive areas. Don’t even consider buying until you have lived in a place for at least a year or two and are totally in love with it. Even then, make sure you get very good legal advice from someone not associated with the broker or your new local lover).
Land ownership is very limited for foreigners. Instead, consider keeping your house in the USA and renting that out. That will give you some inflation protection because rents tend to go up every year in the USA. Then just rent in Vietnam.
Medical: High. Historically, wealthier Vietnamese would often travel to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, or Singapore for significant healthcare challenges. Source. But over the last decade, Vietnam has slowly been raising their game medically. Source. We met two American Expats while visiting Da Nang. One who has lived in Da Nang for a year had moved here from Saigon, where she had lived for 1.5 years. While in Saigon, she had surgery on her leg at the France-Vietnam (FV) Hospital which cost $1200 for everything. She paid for herself since she had no insurance. She said it felt more like a 5-star resort than a hospital. I had a check-up at that hospital in Saigon and it was first class. We also met an expat whose wife had a baby at the Hospital in Danang called International Vinmec. He said the services were amazing and only cost him $500 for everything.
Visa: Medium. There is no retirement visa in Vietnam. The expats we have met mostly just do a visa run once a month to renew their visa. But I just read a comment on one of the above Da Nang Facebook pages today that an expat was excited that you can now get a 3-month eVisa for $25 USD, every time she does a visa run.
We also ran into a few expats on the street who said hello to us because they recognized us from our YouTube channel. They both mentioned that their agents take care of the visa run for them for $100 per month.
None of the expats we have chatted with have said that they had any trouble doing visa runs, one after another, over the last few years. According to them, it is an accepted practice in Vietnam, like it was in Thailand a decade ago.
But I know a few people who left Vietnam over the last 3 years because they were tired of doing visa runs every month.
But we may have more good news for you soon. We just did the new 3-month eVisa and it works great. Now we are just waiting to hear from other expats, if Vietnamese immigration is letting people use the 3-month eVisa for back-to-back visa runs.
Once we have more data that Vietnam is routinely accepting the 3-month eVisa for visa runs without objection, it will mean people can stay in Vietnam doing only 4 visa runs per year at $25 each. That would be amazing.
Pollution: Medium or High. The air in Da Nang Central is way better than in Hanoi. The air at My An Beach community seems cleaner than Da Nang Central. You can check the air quality here.
Transportation: Everything we need in the My An neighborhood where we stayed is in walking distance. The only time we took a grab taxi was to go downtown Da Nang and visit the malls there. Plus, there is a bus (30k Dong, $1.30 USD) into central Da Nang that is 15-20 minutes away. Plus, one of my other favorite places in Vietnam, called Hoi An (I’ll tell you about that next week), is only 30 minutes away by bus (same price).
Da Nang Cheap Retirement Desirability Score: High. Vietnam is now clearly near the top of my countries to retire cheap in paradise for pennies. Da Nang in particular, and specifically, the An Thuong neighborhood ranks very high in Vietnam. Subscribe now so when we do our worldwide ranking, you will be the first to know. We head to Hoi An next.
Where We Stayed
We booked the first few nights in this hotel because Qiang loved the idea of a high floor facing the ocean with a balcony and a bathtub. It was about $25 USD per night.
We spent the second day walking around our favorite neighborhood, My An Beach, to find a place to stay for one month using this process: How to find great apartments around the world.
The apartment we found is shown in the video at the top of this report. Here is the agent. It was 6.5 million dong ($260 USD) per month plus utilities. The utilities (water and electricity) for the month were $33 USD during December. It included the Internet and we had a router inside the room with 30 MBPS up and down. There was a one-month deposit (6.5 million dong) of cash which they refunded in cash on the day we departed.
Our Favorite Markets, Restaurants, Services
Markets
Public Market: Closest public market to My An Beach Community. Great for fruits, vegetables, rice, and meats, all with great prices.
Lotte Mall and Grocery Store: This is the closest Western-style mall and supermarket to the My An Beach Area. Food prices seem higher than in the Public Market. But you will find things here like shampoo and skin care products which may not always be in the public market.
Go Mall and Grocery Store: This mall and supermarket is in the Da Nang Central area. Food prices seem higher than the Public Market.
Anh Quân Bakery: Small baguette 3k each ($0.12)
Le Bordeaux: Great croissant
Beer and Coffee (May An Beach)
Pine Coffee: Best Frozen Coconut coffee 39k ($1.56 USD), salty caramel coffee 29k ($1.16 USD)
The Local Bean: Cappuccino 45k ($1.80 USD), Coconut coffee 42k ($1.68 USD), croissant 32k ($1.28).
Quán nhậu Anh Vinh: Local beer place 15k ($0.60)
AM Coffee – Take Away coffee: Salty coffee 20k ($0.80)
MIỀN NHIỆT ĐỚI (BAR & COFFEE SHOP): Nice beach bar 25k beer ($1.00)
Poké Wow: Happy hour saporro beer 25k ($1.00)
Grandmother’s Garden Café: Kombucha 25k ($1.00), Milk coffee 18k ($0.72)
Heaven Bar: Beer 25k dong ($1.00)
Filling Station: Huda draught 330ml 30k ($1.20), 500ml 40k ($1.60)
Restaurants (May An Beach)
Local-ish ($: Dong and USD) (Vegan)
Ẩm Thực Chay Đại Bình: Our favorite restaurant in Da Nang. Vegan but worth a visit even if you are normally a meat eater. Order Bun Riue Chay 30k ($1.20 USD), or Mi Quang 30k ($1.20 USD) and pile the greens on top and the spices (as much as you can handle).
Loving Vegan: Teriyaki tofu with brown rice 55k ($2.20), Pho 40k ($1.60 USD)
Bodhicitta, Vegetarian/Vegan: Brown noodles with peanut coconut sauce 30k ($1.20)
Tâm Nguyên Phúc Vegetarian: Bun Hue noodle 30k ($1.20 USD), mix rice 20k ($0.80 USD).
Aurora Chay Quán: The word Chay on a restaurant sign means it is a vegetarian restaurant. Pho 30k ($1.20), buen rieu 30k ($1.20), fresh spring rolls 7k ($0.28) each.
Thực Phẩm Chay: Vegan Food: Fried noodle 39k ($1.60), mi Quang 39k ($1.60), beer 17k ($0.68).
Local-ish ($: Dong and USD) (Meat)
Lê Gia Bún Bò Hue: Favorite Bun Bo, beef noddle soup 45k ($1.80)
Hà Nội Xưa: Beef pho 40k ($1.60)
Bánh xèo Cô Mười: Pancake 10k ($0.40), pork skew 7k ($0.28) each, grilled pork with rice noodle 25k ($1.00), orange juice 15k ($0.60)
Bún bò huế Na: Beef noodle soup 35k ($1.40)
Góc Hà Nội: Everything in the beef noodle soup except duck egg 40k ($1.60)
Cơm tấm Út Vân: Pho 60k ($2.40), beer 15k ($0.60)
Local-ish ($: Dong and USD) (Both meat and vegetarian dishes)
AN FOOD Breakfast: Op La fried egg with bread 25k ($1.00), Bo Kho beef stew with bread 30k ($1.20)
Bếp Của Ngoại: Garlic fried morning glory 29k ($1.16), Fried tofu with tomato sauce 25k ($1.00), Vege mettle 29k ($1.16), rice big for shared 12k ($0.48).
Expat-ish ($$-$$$: Dong and USD) (Vegan)
Roots Plant-based Cafe: Tempeh salad 100k ($4 USD), curry pumpkin soup 100k ($4 USD)
KHONG Vegan Kitchen: Peanut sauce noodles 70k ($2.80 USD), Lemon grass tofu rice 65k ($2.60), summer rolls 35k ($1.40).
Expat-ish ($$-$$$: Dong and USD) (Meat, or both meat and Vegetarian)
Pizza House: Good pizza & wine/ Magarita pizza 135k ($5.40), tomato salad 95k ($3.80), wine 490k ($19.60)
Bravo Pizzeria – The Art Of Pizza with Fire Wood Oven: Magarita pizza 149k ($6 USD)
Thìa Gỗ Restaurant: Beef pho 85k ($3.40), Vegan spring rolls 45k ($1.80), beer 25k ($1.00)
Bikini Bottom: Spinach egg benedict 90k ($3.60), Avacado toast with egg 100k ($4.00), salt coffee 35k ($1.40), fresh orange 35k ($1.40)
Happy Heart Cafe: Bagel bacon egg 95k ($3.80), Omelet 115k ($4.60)
Da Nang Other Favorite Services (My An Beach)
MB Bank ATM: MB Bank allows you to pull out 5 million dong at the ATM (which is a big deal because many other banks-ATMs only allow 2-3 million dong.
Whey Store: Sells protein powder of all kinds for meat and vegans plus free delivery to My An Beach.
Thuy Nguyen Spa: Favorite massage. 90 minutes for 300k dong ($12 USD) but we tipped 100k done ($4 USD). Traditional or stone massage.
HQ Nail & Massage Da Nang: Best mani-pedi 180k dong ($7.20).
Kem Bơ Cô Vân chợ Bắc Mỹ An: Avocado ice cream Ms VAN 20-30k dong ($0.80 to $1.20)
Lu Coffee: Best Croissant 32k ($1.28), coconut coffee 78k ($3.12), salted coffee 45k ($1.80)
Dentist: One of our guest stars had a root canal and crown done by this dentist and he was very satisfied with the price and quality of everything.
Gym: This is where we worked out for about $20 USD per month.
Nightlife (My An Beach)
Here is a webpage that posts things to do in and around Da Nang. It includes things happening everywhere from Hoi An to Da Nang Central including My An Beach Area.
But if you don’t see anything there you are interested in here is a walk you can take in just the My An Beach Area that is likely to find something interesting to do for you. Just click this link or the Google Map Below and start walking. When something looks interesting, walk in and check it out.
Da Nang Guest Stars
2019 Da Nang Vietnam Report
Everything above this paragraph is from our 2023 visit to Da Nang. Everything after this paragraph was from our 2019 visit to Da Nang. We stayed in Da Nang Central last time, so some of the maps and directions below are oriented toward downtown accommodations instead of where we stayed at the beach above.
Cheapest Flights to Da Nang
We almost always get our cheapest flights on this Skyscanner. They have a web crawler that is constantly looking for the cheapest prices all over the world. As usual, we found the cheapest flight to Vietnam on Skyscanner. We took a train (3 hours) from Hue to Da Nang for about $3 USD.
Da Nang Vietnam Walking Tour
Here are the things you must see in the central part of the city of Da Nang. Make sure to also my below Expat Beach Tour video.
If the above video looks fun, click ==>this link<== or the below Google Map and start walking.
Da Nang Cathedral: Da Nang Cathedral was built by the Roman Catholic Church in 1923.
Hàn Market: The largest market in Da Nang has clothing, silk, jewelry, flowers, food, coffee, tea, and wine, including Vietnamese snake wine.
Long An Temple: Just a beautiful temple next door to the following museum.
Museum of Cham Sculpture: Contains statutes, sculptures, and reliefs recovered from My Sons dated the 4th through 14th centuries.
Dragon Bridge: This suspension bridge is built artistically as a dragon. On Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 PM, the dragon breathes actual fire.
DHC Marina (Love Bridge): Great place for evening people-watching.
My Khe Beach: The longest beach in Da Nang.
Da Nang Vietnam Marble Mountain Tour
If the above video looks fun, click ==>this link<== or the below Google Map. The first stop is the bus stop you get off assuming you are taking the bus from Da Nang Central to Marble Mountain. Once the bus leaves, you are there in 15 minutes. The bus runs every 20 minutes. Catch the bus in central Da Nang here. The bus will say “Da Nang to Hoi An” on the front windshield. Tell them you are going to Marble Mountain. They will tell you when to jump off. Or just jump off when the bus stops at the first stop on the below map, which is a bus stop.
Marble Mountains: Dramatic oceanside mountains with caves and temples. Limestone rock formations jutting out of the beach just south of Da Nang. Originally inhabited by Cham people with Pagodas added by the Nguyen Dynasty. Now home to various artists at the mountain base at Non Nuoc Village. Non-Nuoc has a white sandy-ish beach that was a rest and relaxation site for American troops during the Vietnam War.
Da Nang Expat Beach Tour
Qiang Hui of Hoboventures has an American friend living in Da Nang. They met on Instagram. Her name is Kat. Kat is the founder of Girls Gone Working. Kat and her husband Rafael (a Renaissance man from Bogota, Colombia) live in a beach community just outside of Da Nang called Ah Thuong. We had coconut coffee today at Brewman with Kat and Rafael. They recommended that we walk their neighborhood in Da Nang before we leave. So after coffee, we did just that. Our walking path is on the below map. The path squiggles through a few streets just so you see this cool neighborhood.
If the above video looks fun, click ==>this link<== or the below Google Map and start walking. The first stop is the bus stop you get off assuming you are taking the bus from Da Nang Central to this Expat Beach Community called An Thuong Beach. Catch the bus in central Da Nang here. The bus will say “Da Nang to Hoi An” on the front windshield. Tell them you are going to Ah Thuong Beach. They will tell you when to jump off. Or just jump off when the location blue dot reaches the first stop on the below map, which is a bus stop.
Quang Nhat Hotel: This is the hotel in the video with rooms starting at $13 USD per night.
Tam’s Burgers and Pub: This is a restaurant we read about online. This is also where we just happened to meet the second American Expat Roy Stevenson. Roy is the most prolific travel writer in the world. Check out his web page: www.roy-stevenson.com.
Dirty Fingers: This is where we had delicious deep-fried cheese sticks. They have live music and happy hour here nightly.
Da Nang Expat Interview (Roy Stevenson)
In this video you will see us run into one of the most prolific writers in the world, Roy Stevenson. We asked him all about Da Nang. He explains why he believes Da Nang is one of the best places to retire in the world.
Da Nang Nightlife (Downtown Da Nang)
These are nightlife places within a few blocks of where we stayed in central Da Nang. The first two on the below map are the last two in the above video. Just walk this path until you find something interesting. You can also try Dirty Fingers in the Expat area. Dirty Fingers has live music at 9:30 PM 4 to 5 nights per week. Beers start at about $1.50 USD, but a half-price happy hour from 6 to 9 PM.
If the above video looks fun, click ==>this link<== or the below Google Map and start walking.
Da Nang Facts and History
Here are some interesting facts about Da Nang Vietnam according to Wikipedia.
Da Nang is the fifth largest population in Vietnam. Da Nang has about 1 million people, 50.7% are women.
The Da Nang municipality is under the direct control of the central government of Vietnam.
Da Nang is within 62 miles of Hue, Hoi An, and My Sons, all three being UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Da Nang was known Cửa Hàn and Vietnam was known as Đại Việt during the Ly Dynasty from 1054 to 1400 and 1428 to 1804. During French colonial rule Da Nang was known as Turon.
During the Nguyen Dynasty, starting in 1802, the city was known as Da Nang. Gia Long, the first Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty, was able to defeat the Trinh Lords of the north with the help of French volunteers, training, and technology.
Da Nang originated in the 2nd century AD under the Champa Kingdom, which held land from Hue to Vung Tau. The Cham territories were annexed by the Ly Dynasty by 1500 AD.
The Portuguese explorer Antonio de Faria visited Da Nang in 1535. Portuguese, French, and Spanish traders and missionaries regularly visited Hoi An by the 17th century.
By the early 19th century, trade with ships of foreign nations was mostly shifted from Hoi An to Da Nang under the orders of Emperor Minh Mang of Vietnam.
In 1847, French ships invaded Da Nang alleging religious prosecution of Roman Catholic missionaries. The French were pushed out of Da Nang in 1860 but were able to take Saigon in 1862. Southern Vietnam was eventually ceded to France as Cochinchina under the Treaty of Saigon.
By 1887, the French had firmly established the colony of Indochina, with Da Nang being one of the five major cities of Hanoi, Saigon, Haiphong, and Hue.
The Americans showed up in Da Nang in 1965 and built a large army and airforce base there. Da Nang served as the supply and attack base for the Americans. During the Vietnam War, Da Nang became one of the world’s busiest airports averaging over 2500 flights per day.
The Viet Cong was able to push the Americans out of Vietnam by 1976. Da Nang was under complete Vietnamese control by March 1975.
The Vietnamese were able to push out many very strong invading forces including the Chinese, the French, and the Americans. An amazing fact, no matter where you stand politically.
Vietnam issued the “Total Liberation” postage stamp in 1976.
Many companies worldwide think of Vietnam when developing offshore goods and services. Because of operational costs, Vietnam is a great place to source products and services as expenses increase and trade policy deteriorates with China.
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