My Son Sanctuary
Fourth-century Cham brick tower-temples in a jungle bowl, bombed and then restored.
Duration
4 hrs – 5 hrs
Best time
At opening, before the heat
Open
Every day
Entry price
150000 VND
My Son was the religious centre of the Cham kingdom from the fourth to the thirteenth century — nearly a thousand years of continuous use. Some sixty brick tower-temples were built in a bowl ringed by mountains, with no visible mortar: the bonding technique has never been recovered.
A week of American bombing in 1969 destroyed half the site, including group A and its main tower. About twenty structures remain, restored or shored up, and the craters are still visible between the groups.
Getting there
Forty kilometres west of Hoi An, an hour by road. An electric shuttle links the car park to the temple groups, a kilometre further on.
What the price covers
foreign visitor ticket, service charge included; 100,000 ₫ for Vietnamese nationals. Forty kilometres from Hoi An.
What to bring
- Walking shoes
- 1.5 L of water
- Cap
Rules on site
Unexploded ordnance remains off the marked paths, and the signs say so: do not leave the trail. The bowl is stifling from ten in the morning, with no shade between the groups.
Checked on 29 August 2026 at My Son Sanctuary — rates
Other places in Hoi An
- Hoi An old townA fifteenth-century trading port left intact, silk lanterns and yellow timber houses.
- Japanese covered bridgeThe symbol of the town, built by the Japanese community around 1600, with a small temple inside it.
- An Bang BeachThe sand four kilometres from the old town, lined with unpretentious bars.
- Central MarketThe herbs, the noodles and the fabric stalls where you order a suit in twenty-four hours.