Hoi An night market
Open-air riverside stalls of lanterns, silk, and street food, lit for nightly bargaining and boat-launched wish lanterns.
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This guide walks the riverside night market on An Hoi Island in Hoi An, where haggling starts around six thirty each evening across fifty to a hundred lantern and silk stalls. It lays out the unwritten rules of the bargaining, how prices shift the further you walk from the entrance, and the odd fee some vendors charge just to photograph their lanterns. It closes on the river itself, where a centuries-old lunar ritual of floating paper lanterns has been reshaped into a nightly boat ride for visitors. Stand at the market's edge and you can watch the bargaining and the ritual running side by side.
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