Da nang

Danang has calm seas with green water during four seasons, not being polluted with 60% salination and high safety. Some seashores have coral, abundant plants and creatures along bankside and under sea. Especially, most beaches are next to the city centre, in roads easy to come and by various means of transport. The sea water is cool with little wave so tourists can bath all year's round, especialy in summer from May to August. The beaches in Danang City have hotels, pleasure-house, and various abundant services, creating favourable conditions for tourists to relax on the seashores. Most beaches are convenient for development of kinds of services for tourists such as fishing, water-skiing, diving, yatch race.

The safeguard team of Danang seashores work from 5 a.m to 8 p.m every day to ensure safety for tourists to bath and relax on the seashores.

Marble mountains

Marble Mountains are seemingly familiar to everybody who heard of there or has been to Danang City. There are so well known as to be a symbol of the area. The subtle, lyric and poetical ambience of pagodas, grottoes, trees, bushes, sounds the mixed of pagoda bells and murmuring waves and the mysterious legends of sea are all that are not far from the city center, making the mountains a fairy land for tourists for ages. Almost two hundred years ago, King Minh Mang came here. He named the mountain, grottoes and pagodas. Nobody knows why names such as Ngu Hanh Son, Huyen Khong, Hoa Liem, Lang Hu, Tang Chan, Van Nguyet, Thien Long put King deep in thought, despite of dwelling on to national development, the King kept in his mind the picturesque landscape of the mountains as the pride of the beautiful southern land.

Cultural and historical stamps can be seen on every pagoda and tower built in the 19th century, and on Champa sculptures of the 14th and 15th century. There are written-on-stone poets of the Le and Tran Dynasty, a grave of Capital Tran Quang Khai’s mother, a temple worshiping Ngoc Lan princess (Minh Mang King’s younger sister) and such evolutionary relics as Da Chong tunnel, Ba Tho cave, Kim Son mount, Am Phu cave, etc… All are persuasive evidences to the legendary Marble Mountain and the land endowed with the people of great talent.

Like other landscapes, these mountains have many different mysterious legends. The poetical ambience plus echoes of my mysterious legends gives mountains their own characters that it is difficult to find on other places. In ancient oriental philosophy; metal, wood, water, fire, earth were five elements that created the universe. Five is the paramount important number in thinking and lives. The coincidence of the five peaks: metal, wood, water, fire, earth still keeps them mysterious.

The natural grottoes and pagodas on the mountains combine both heaven-endowed and man-made to create the harmonious beauty. The feature the attractive characters that keep tourists surprised and emotional on the way traveling.

On hot summer days, let us imagine you and your friends going up the 108 steps to Ling Ung pagoda, sitting at Vong Giang tower to look to green Truong Giang murmuring slightly in the sunset or standing on Vong Hai tower to look far to sandy beaches flirted by the sea waves. In the late afternoon, city dwellers rush to the seaside, fishermen group by group patiently push their boats offshore, and on the greasy paths leading to the grottoes and inside pagodas the sandalwood exhales its fragrance. One day staying at the in Marble Mountains makes life more beautiful and meaningful.

The Hai Van Pass - Hai Van Gate

On a journey through the land, Hai Van is always an attractive landscape. Hai Van is highest pass in the country, full of perilous obstacles and is the last spur of the Truong Son Range reaching to the sea. In “Phu Bien Tap Luc”, Le Qui Don, the Viet Nam scholar who lived in the XVII century wrote that Hai Van with its foot standing in the sea surface and its summit covered with clouds. The pass standings as a borderline divide Thuan Hoa and Quang Nam provinces. On the top of the pass are the vestiges of long ago, a fortified gateway. The gate facing to Thua Thien province is inscribed with the three words “Hai Van gate” and the other gate looking down on Quang Nam province is engraved “the most grandiose gateway in the world”. In the XVI century this land belonged to Cham Kingdom and was given to the Dai Viet as an engagement present for the Princess Huyen Tran of the Tran Dynasty. The old story is only a memory, old vestiges covered with green moss, among vast spaces vast of plants and trees, tourists are filled with the emotions of the past.

Hai Van means winds and clouds. Winds like a herd of horses galloping a number of miles, clouds like pouring from haven. Cao Ba Quat, the poet living in the XVII century only respected apricot blossom (Nhat sinh de thu bai mai hoa) was surprised when he was before the landscape: Nhat bich ngung vi gioi – Trung van nhieu tac thanh. On the summit of Hai Van pass, a panorama of the Danang city, Tien Sa port, Son Tra peninsular, Cu Lao Cham and a long white sandy beach can be seen.

Whatever endowed by nature, time by time and by hands of man will be something of humanitarian values. Coming to Hai Van is to come to the sanction of two land, to satisfy the peak-conquering philosophy, to mix ourselves in to echo of heroic songs of Vietnamese ancients when they went to find new lands to be emotional to prolong past of the Center region where suffering a lot of losses in the course of finding and protecting the nation.

Ba Na, Chua Mountain, Mo Stream

Located in Hoa Vang province, apart from Danang 40 kilometers to southwest, Ba Na – Mount Chua is 1,487 meters high over the sea level. Average temperature is from 17 to 20 degree Celsius. In Ba Na, there are four seasons in a day: spring in the morning, summer at noon, autumn in the afternoon, winter in the evening. For light rains, it is not as wet as in Da Lat. Although it rains around the mountain, the top is dry; furthermore, it is cloudless, and fresh. Compared with Tam Dao, Da Lat, the territory has a precedence of panoramic view. From the top of the mountain, one can have a vast view of sea, Danang city, rice fields spreading to the horizon.

While months from May to August are the hottest period (up to 32oC) in seaside Central Viet Nam, temperature at the territory fluctuates from 17 to 20 degree Celsius, 22-25oC in maximum. It drops down to 15oC at night. With temperate climate, murmuring rivers, fluttering trees, Ba Na is as attractive as Tam Dao, Da Lat, etc. The Ba Na natural reservation zone has 544 sorts of high-level flora, 256 types of animals, in which there are 6 flora and 44 fauna of being precious recorded in Vietnamese Redbook.

One seems to be lost in clouds and smoke. For different factors and reasons, people have different judgments on Ba Na but all think that it is Ba Na that is the best place for relaxing.

With its wonderful advantages, French chose the territory as a relaxing resort and constructed hundreds of castles, villas, pleasure house and buildings here. Though natural calamities and enemy inflicted destruction for half of century sweep some traces of these ancient houses and buildings, there remains generosity of nature: primitive forests, temperate and fresh climate, fluttering sounds of pine hills mixed with songs murmured by rivers flowing over granites and then smoothly towards the forest.

Some villas currently restored and upgraded with modern equipments are available. Especially comfortable telepheric system drives tourists from Vong Nguyet post, soaking in clouds, bypassing the beneath primitive forest to the center of Ba Na tourist site.

Ba Na – a romantic site thanks to the beauty of nature embellished by human hands. Looking down to Danang from the top of Ba Na, one seems to have the feelings that one is living in a different life with different emotions and different happiness. Feelings one can never gain from life in noisy urban areas.

In connection with Ba Na – Mount Chua, Mo River is a famous tourist site. In direction of southwest about 27 kilometers from Danang, in Hoa Vang district, the site is most occupied in summer. There is Toc Tien Fall (Fairy’s Hair Fall) with 9 levels. The fall is called Toc Tien because looking up from the fall foot, it looks like a fairy’s beautiful hair.

Son Tra Peninsula

Son Tra is a special gift of the god to Danang. It can be seen from every places of the city. With its sea-oriented appearance, Son Tra acts as a giant screen protecting Danang from storms and cyclones coming from the sea. 10-km northeast of the city center is Son Tra Peninsula. It looks like a mushroom with its peak 693m above sea level. The cap of the mushroom is Son Tra Mountain and its stalk is the white sandy beach that affords an ideal area for bathing, playing sports, fishing and swimming. Son Tra mountain is natural preservation area with various kinds of plants and animals. On this mountain, there still remain more than 30sq. kilometers of natural forests, nearly 300 types of plants and several hundred kinds of fauna, including rare animal. The scenery is very attractive, it is said that fairies usually chose this place for landing, singing, dancing and playing chess. The name Tien Sa (Tien: Fairy, Sa: landing) is rooted from that.

From the top of the mountain, we can see the view of our beloved city, Marble Mountains, Ba Na – Mount Chua. It is an enjoyable and peaceful vista.

Suoi Da stream lies by the side of the foot of the mountain, fine sandy surfaces run round the peninsula, several breaks of waves are running steadily up and down and washing up on the stones heaped up around the seaside. There it is quiet Bai But with groups of small, nice-looking houses, where people can sit for hours to hear the thunder of waves and view the slanginess on the far mount cliffs.

At the mount foot, there are colorful and graceful coral beaches where diving tourism can develop.

It is so majestic and it is so romantic, it is so wide and it is really beautiful. In one-day stay at Son Tra, we can enjoy living in the resplendent flow of dawn and the quietness of twilight on this fascinating landscape. And that is a time for us to realize the value of each and every moment and the true calling of our hearts.

My Khe Beach

My Khe is the beach directly east of Da Nang on the South China Sea. By road it is about 6 km from the centre of town to the ocean, by crossing the Han River via the Nguyen Van Troi Bridge. Turn left after the river crossing onto the main road, then a right after a couple of kilometers, and follow this street until you hit the water. My Khe Beach and China Beach are only 65 km apart and they are connected by the same stretch of coastline and uninterrupted sand. This proximity to each other makes it easy to understand to confusion towards the real ‘China Beach’, as it is essentially the same beach.