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title: "Over the Hai Van Pass"
date: "2023-04-18"
location: "Hoi An"
country: "Vietnam"
lat: 15.8801
lng: 108.338
photos: 4
weather: true
weatherData: { tempMin: 25.1, tempMax: 32.7, code: 3, precipitation: 0, windMax: 19.3, source: "open-meteo", recordedAt: "2026-09-06T08:32:20.444Z" }
---

Rode the pass on the back of somebody else's motorbike with our bags strapped to a third one. It rained at the top and cleared before the bottom, which everyone had told us it would.

Hoi An is lit entirely by paper lanterns after dark, and it is exactly as good as that sounds.