First-light swim
A private cove opens with a teak ladder and a thermos of jasmine tea.
SOH WORLD is the second life of a 22-hectare coastal estate by Nam Group — a tightly composed society of villas, a working orchard and a beach club, held together by an architecture that knows how to disappear.
Once known to a small circle as Thanh Long Bay, the property has been reimagined under a single editorial vision — pavilions kept long and low, sight-lines returned to the orchard and the sea, nothing built that the wind cannot cool.
On the south-facing curve of Kê Gà, sheltered by granite headlands. A microclimate of long dry afternoons and warm dusk winds.
Each guest day is a small choreography of water, salt, fire and shade — composed by the position of the sun and the rhythm of the bay.
A private cove opens with a teak ladder and a thermos of jasmine tea.
A coastal kitchen, fired by tamarind wood, plates the morning's catch.
Walk the dragon-fruit grove; pick what the chef will cook at dusk.
A bath house carved from local basalt; treatments built around forest honey.
A sail-rigged junk for sunset crossings to the granite islets beyond the bay.
A 22-seat chef's counter facing the lighthouse — one menu, one tide, one night.
Pavilions are kept long and low, their roofs pitched in the language of the fishing villages further down the coast. Lime-washed walls, hand-quarried stone, aged teak — chosen so the buildings only become more themselves with time.
Residences are released by appointment. Leave us a note and a member of the Nam Group atelier will write back within twenty-four hours.