If the thought of another freezing cold German Christmas market selling pricey mulled wine fills you with dread, you may want to consider venturing further afield where the beers are cheap

By day, the bright array of mustard-yellow shophouses and wooden merchant homes are set against a backdrop of grey skies but come nightfall and it’s transformed into a fairytale type setting.

The riverside streets glow with lanterns and fairy lights and the tinsel-draped shopfronts turn Hoi An - a trading port on Vietnam’s central coast - into Asia’s answer to a Christmas market.

Around half an hour from Da Nang airport, the ‘market’ sells beers for 30p, hot chocolates for £1.50, and the old town is lit by hundreds of coloured lanterns.

Hoi An is a charming city that is also a UNESCO-listed trading

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