Vietnam’s Central Coast offers pristine summer skies and a quieter kind of grandeur: the dramatic headlands of Nha Trang, the long sapphire bays of Da Nang, met away from the crowds.

Between the two lie mountain passes that fall straight into the sea, fishing villages unchanged by the resorts a few kilometres away, and the old lantern town of Hoi An—best walked in the early morning, before it belongs to anyone else.

A secluded villa is reserved to your party, a beachside table composed around your preferences and a butler on hand. It is a tropical retreat scaled entirely to you, on a coast that has not yet learned to hurry.