Hi my friends. How are you today? I hope that you are doing well. And today, I come back to Pinmapple community and introduce one of the most attractive destinations in Da Nang, it is a Ba Na Hills. It is about 25km from the center of Da Nang to the southwest, and we traveled in a group of 20 people, so we traveled by coach. On the way to Ba Na, you will feel colder because the temperature slowly lowers as you go up. As you know, Ba Na Hills is known as the road to heaven, it's like a miniature Europe, so it attracts a lot of domestic and foreign tourists every day. I am quite surprised and extremely happy because more and more tourists return to Da Nang after nearly 2 years of closure due to covid-19. So, let's explore the famous spots in Ba Na Hills with me in the article below.
We started moving from Da Nang at 8am by coach and arrived here at 8:40am. We got off the bus and bought entrance tickets for 20 people at the ticket counter. While waiting for my friend to buy a ticket, I went around to take pictures. This place is extremely large, there are many tourist cars and motorbikes parked in the parking lot, and there are many other groups of tourists from all over the world coming here to visit. The special thing is that from afar you can see the Ba Na gate, it was built with a very unique architecture. There are many spacious corridors for visitors to stand, avoid the sun and rest. This is just the entrance to Ba Na Hills, after buying tickets we have to go another distance by escalator to get to the cable car station. After getting to the station, we continue to move by cable car to reach the Ba Na Hills attractions. It took us about 30 minutes to buy tickets and move around.
We took about 6-7 escalators to the cable car stations, here there are 5 cable car stations connecting from the stations at the ground to the attractions at the top of Ba Na mountain. You can choose any station you want to go to. Due to the large number of customers today, we had to wait in line for our turn. There is a ticket counter here, the staff will check your entrance ticket before you can enter the cable car station.
After moving inside, you will see the spectacular cable car system, and you will wait for your turn to board the cable car. As you know, Ba Na Hills is the only cable car route to achieve 4 world records, so Ba Na Hills is a destination not to be missed when you come to the beautiful city of Da Nang. Each cable car can accommodate about 8-10 people, after waiting for about 5 minutes, I also set foot on the cable car here, and this is also the first time I experience the feeling of riding the cable car. You will experience a lot of different feelings like, first you will feel very interesting when riding the cable car, the more you move up, you will see the entire forest and streams right below your feet, it is extremely majestic and gorgeous. There are times when the cabin will be shaken, it gives you the feeling of playing a thrilling game.
And after about 15 minutes of traveling, we arrived at the station at the top of Ba Na mountain. Our first destination was French Village, here built with French-style buildings and streets. There is also an outdoor music festival with a professional band at the entrance, where people will sit and enjoy food and beer while listening to and watching music performances. Because this is my first time coming here, as well as the first time I see Western culture, especially French culture through people, festivals and infrastructure here. I have seen old and castle style houses like this on the internet, and now I was really impressed by the style of the buildings, the streets here, I felt like I was setting foot in Europe.
After walking around the French Village and taking photos, we continued to the nearby entertainment venue, which is Fantasy Park. There are many games you can participate in, from simple games to adventurous, thrilling games. Because I just moved up here by cable car, I was a bit dizzy so I couldn't play any thrilling games, although it was a bit of a pity. I looked for some light games like basketball, car crash, etc. After trying many times at the basketball game, I finally managed to throw 1 ball into the basket, so the reward I won is a big teddy rabbit.
After playing a few games, it was already 12 noon, we felt hungry, so we found a nearby restaurant to have lunch. We had lunch at Thai Market, this is one of my favorite restaurants, the food here is extremely delicious, very suitable for my taste. I really like the service attitude of the staff here, they are extremely friendly and enthusiastic to support us even though there are a lot of guests.
After we finished eating, it started to rain, even though it was still sunny a few minutes ago. So we sat down to rest a bit at the restaurant until the rain stopped. When it started to stop raining, there were many dancers starting to perform in the middle of the street, they walked on a very high beam looking very professional, they look so pretty in that outfit, there were many tourists taking pictures with them.
After watching the performance for a while, we decided to choose the Golden Bridge as the next venue. Because the Golden Bridge is located far from the French Village, we have to go to the Bordeaux station to go down there by cable car. As you know, Da Nang Golden Bridge is one of the new wonders of the world. It is designed very unique with two hands raised to the sky to support the bridge across. Because it had just rained, the sky was still quite cloudy, the raindrops on the bridge looked very beautiful. I am sure that you will be surprised to visit a gorgeous bridge.
In addition to the Bridge Pagoda, there is also a very famous flower garden called Le Jardin D'Amour. Here are planted a lot of beautiful flowers with many extremely vibrant colors. Besides, there are also statues made of trees and flowers that look very special. There are quite a few gardens here for you to explore and take photos like mythology garden, maze garden, memory garden, etc. In particular, there are flowers planted on top of the statues that look very interesting.
After visiting the flower gardens, we continue to walk down a small slope to another place, Linh Ung Pagoda. Linh Ung Pagoda in Ba Na Hills is one of three famous Linh Ung pagodas of the same name in Da Nang city. As you have read my previous post, I have introduced to you another Linh Ung pagoda located in Marble Mountains. I promise to introduce you to the last Linh Ung pagoda in Da Nang in my next post. A special highlight in Ba Na Hills is the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni sitting on a majestic lotus between the mountains and nature. Many tourists come here to pray for the peace of themselves and their families.
After visiting Linh Ung Pagoda, we returned to French Village by cable car to take pictures and waited until 3pm to board the cable car back down to the ground and leave. This was a short day trip, but my friends and I had a great time. Thanks for reading and see you soon in my next posts! Have a nice day. Love all!