Bãi biển Cửa Đại
Sandy shoreline reborn from a decade of erosion by a submerged offshore breakwater and fresh dredged sand.
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This guide to Cua Dai Beach in Hoi An follows Nguyen Thi Be, who sold coconuts on this sand for a decade while watching the shoreline disappear beneath her: jet skis and basket boats once shared a beach ranked among Asia's finest, until erosion beginning around 2011 stripped away ten to twenty meters of sand a year, worsened by a 2014 typhoon. You'll hear how resorts propped up their own front yards with sandbags and concrete as the beach shrank to almost nothing. Stand here and picture the sand that used to reach much farther out.
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