Not far away from Cua Dai beach and Hoi An ancient town, An Bang beach captivates travelers with unspoiled natural scenery and ordinary, simple life of fishing villages.
In contrast to teeming of Cua Dai beach, An Bang has a quiet and taciturn appearance. When afternoon comes, children from neighboring villages usually together come to the seaside. While waiting their parents from the sea returning, they gather to play kite-flying, beat shells or bath. Sometimes, they direct their eyes to the sea, waiting for signals from their parents with boats full of fish and shrimps.
Men in the villages irrespective of ages together focus after a day on the sea. A good haul of fish is happiness on each trip that the sea brings again to them. To fishing residents, men are main bread-winners. Any family also has at least one man going off shore. Children may be proceed this traditional occupation of their parents when they grow up.
A man industriously kit again a fishing net and repair his basket boat after a long day clinging to the sea. Simple basket boats are the primary nourishing sources of families here.
Basket boats lie on the seashore after many days floating on the sea seem to wait a propitious wind to be out of shore again.
A pole, two hangers and styro-foam boxes are inseparable things to many women in the fishing villages. Day by day, they burden fish and shrimps to market, expecting to earn a full meal for their family.
After a long laboring day, the women together sit on the beach and tell many sad as well as merry stories. When rarely resting minutes run out, they come back again to bustling life with annual worries.
Travelers who love pristine and serene beaches cannot miss An Bang as traveling to Hoian. Thanks to blue crystal-clear water and stretching white sand, this beach will bring travelers stillness and private spaces.
Here, it is really easy to encounter untouched scenes with interlacing long stems of water spinach or bushes of cactus growing intensely among strong wind and arid sea sand.