An Hoi Bridge
Concrete river crossing strung nightly with colored lanterns, linking the old quarter to a riverside night market.
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This guide to An Hoi Bridge in Hoi An opens with a woman setting a lit candle adrift in a paper boat, one of thousands that float beneath the bridge on full-moon nights. It traces back to 1998, when Hoi An's city government began switching off its electric streetlights once a month, an experiment testing whether a modern town could rediscover itself in the dark. The concrete bridge itself, built in the 1990s to replace an old ferry crossing to An Hoi Island, was never meant to be a landmark. Watch the river below for the fishermen paddling candle lanterns out into open water.
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