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planning a trip to Vietnam and are having difficulties
deciding where to go and what to do, what you cannot miss
and what to skip. From the feedbacks of our customers,
Tailormade Vietnam Holidays would like to recommend some
activities considered by travellers as must-do's when you
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Sandy Beach
Thanks to the eponymous 1980s TV series, Sandy Beach will forever be associated with
pretty young military nurses complaining about their love lives to the accompaniment of
the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black. During the war the Americans used the name to refer
to the beautiful 30km swoop of fine white sand that starts at Monkey Mountain and
finishes near
Hoi An, with the
Marble Mountains near its centre. The part they were
most familiar with was the area close to
Danang where soldiers stationed all over the
country would be sent for some R&R. For some, a picnic on the beach was their last meal
before their return to combat by helicopter. The Vietnamese call sections of the beach
by different names, including My Khe, My An, Non Nuoc and Cua Dai. In the last decade a
clever entrepreneur cashing in on the TV series started calling the area in front of
his hotel Sandy Beach - although it's considerably south of where the Americans hung
out, While My Khe is now basically a suburb of Danang and
Cua Dai is widely considered
Hoi An's beach
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