An Bang Beach
Once-quiet fishing hamlet turned beloved beach, defended by fabric-tube dykes and offshore breakwaters against a retreating shoreline.
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This guide to An Bang Beach in Hoi An tracks the money and engineering now going into keeping its sand in place, and how the beach became a destination at all. It follows the erosion that began eating its neighbor, Cua Dai, after 2014, when dams and sand-mining barges upstream starved the coast of sediment and swallowed a pine forest planted to hold the dunes. It traces how An Bang inherited the crowds once Cua Dai's beach disappeared, and the first line of defense, eleven hundred meters of sand-filled fabric tubes, that engineers sank offshore. French loans and European grants now fund the next attempt at holding the shoreline.
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