Digital Nomad Essentials

📱 eSim: Airalo
💳 International Card: Wise
🌍 Visa for any country: Joinsherpa
👥 Neighborhood Vibes: Hoodmaps
🏥 Insurance: Credit-Card Built in Insurance
🏠 Housing: Airbnb Book 28 days for discounts
🎦 See the Experience: Youtube

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Da Nang Vietnam

Average Expenses

💵 Cost of living for nomad: ~$900 / month
🏨 Accommodation: ~ $600 / month
🏨 Hotel (median price): $15 / night
🏢 Coworking hot desk: $150 / month
🍛 Dinner: $2.86
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L): $1.43
☕️ Coffee in cafe: $1.33
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi): $2.86 / trip

Favourite Experiences 🎖️

Healthy eating with constant access to greens and clean eating
Gym day passes around the beach
Lots of different flavoured coffees, from salt coffee to avocado coffee
White sand beaches
Visiting Imperial City: Hue City

Not So Good 😢

Extreme Heat weather is no joke and can cause migraines or heat stroke 🔥
Caffeine in coffee is no joke and keep you awake all night
Lots of local men just lounging in random hours of the day that gives you odd looks
Exotic food that are extreme (Jellyfish, Snake, etc)

Recommendations

Cafes

The Cups Coffee
- A Starbucks-like local coffee shop, perfect for working near the beach.
- Website
- Directions
Highlands Coffee
- Coffee shop right in front of the beach with a variety of desserts and coffee.
- Website
- Directions
DNG. Coffee
- Higher-end local coffee with Instagrammable aesthetics.
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Breco Cafe
- Situated in a hip street with lots of restaurants, this is a gem for enjoying high-quality local food at a reasonable price.
- Website & Directions
Caribou Food Truck
- Situational food truck along the beach, perfect for having coffee or pizza by the beach.
- Website
- Directions
Acacia Coffee
- A bit more hidden local cafe run by a friendly local with delicious salt coffee. Hard to locate but a must-visit if you are in the area.
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Restaurants

Bao An Macrobiotic
- If you are craving ultra-healthy food with vegan options, then this is the place to go. A bit hard to locate but well worth it for the health-conscious types.
- Website
- Directions
Cơm tấm Út Vân
- Best local restaurant for broken rice, friendly owner, affordable price, prime location, and hefty servings. Definitely one of our favorites for lunch/dinner.
- Website
- Directions
Da Nang Specialty Nam Hien
- A strong contender for our favorite places to dine local food. Hefty servings and authentic local vibes. Clean and perfectly located near the beach.
- Directions

Fitness

Pig Gym
- Good day pass price, clean and complete equipment, it does get crowded after office hours.
- Directions
HN Fitness
- Good day pass price, clean and complete equipment, it does get crowded after office hours.
- Directions

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Digital Nomad Protips

🌔 Do not arrive in the airport at night.

It adds a layer of complexity trying to figure out how to get to your accomodation at night.

🚕 Taxis are notorious at overcharging at any country.

Arriving at night forces you to sometimes use them. Especially in countries where you can’t easily use Uber

🍇 Always know where the supermarket is

or better yet, live near the local supermarket. This will help you save tons of money and really simulate living like a local.

👩‍🍳 Find Restaurants/Cafes where the owner is constantly there

Frequently visit that place. They will start noticing you and become friendly. It helps you adjust to certain places when you know some of the locals and it’s one of the easiest ways to make friends.

🏦 Always bring cash.

around $100 worth, regardless if the country uses card in most places. There will almost always be an instance where you need cash. Do not bring too much cash as well.

🏂 Do not bring clothes for all seasons.

The worst case is that half of your clothes is for winter and the other half is summer. In most cases, it will either be too hot or too cold to where the other half of your clothes. Bring only a few set and look for local bazaars that sell affordable clothes for that season. You save in luggage expense, help local community, and get new clothes. win-win-win.

🚚 Understand crossing the road culture.

It’s surprising how different cultures treat crossing the road varies greatly, e.g vietnam versus australia, it could very well save your life.

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