At the Zannier Hotels Bãi San Hô, a new boutique resort tucked away on a quiet stretch of the Vietnamese coast, guests can pick their own panorama. Your choice of view – over the verdant paddy fields, across the waves that lap the powder-white sands, or out towards the mountain – also determines the local tribal architectural style in which you will be immersed.

Inspired by fishermen’s houses, the Paddy Field Villas are built on stilts from reclaimed wood. The Beach Pool Villas draw on the traditions of the coastal Cham people, while the Hill Pool Villas, appropriately, derive their design from the longhouses of the mountain-dwelling Rade tribe. “Very logically, they build their houses out from the hill – there is less impact on the ground, and the views are better, too,” says Zannier’s Quentin Guiraud.