Da Nang is a beach city with a mountain behind it.
Which Ba Na Hills ticket includes the cable car both ways. What a night on the Han River costs. Reviews of every tour you can book in Da Nang.
The mountain, the caves, the river and the pass.
Four bookings a first week in Da Nang tends to hang off. What each one costs, and what the people who took it say.
01The whole city in a dayGolden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu CaveGolden Bridge in the morning, Lady Buddha and the Am Phu caves after lunch. The cheapest way to see why people stay a week.
02The fire-breathing hourHan River Local Cruise by NightA flat-bottomed boat under the Dragon Bridge. Go on a Saturday and the dragon lights up at nine.
03Marble and lanternsMarble Mountains – Hoi An Ancient Town Sunset Daily Ingroup TourThe caves and the stairs at Ngu Hanh Son, then down the coast to Hoi An for the lantern hour.
04North over the passHue Imperial Day Trip, Hai Van Pass Train, & LunchThe Hai Van Pass by road, the coastal railway below it, and the Citadel at the far end. A long day, and the best drive in Vietnam.
Everything in Da Nang is inside an hour of the beach.
A cable car into cloud forest, five marble hills full of caves, a headland with a Buddha on it, a mountain pass with the sea on one side, and two old towns close enough to be day trips. Pick the day, and the best way to book it.
Hoi An, Hue or My Son. Da Nang gives you the choice, and one spare day.
Almost every big day out here starts with a minibus at the hotel door. Three directions, what it costs to sit in each one, and how long you get back.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · Golden Bridge Ba Na Hills Full-Day Tour
South to Hoi AnForty minutes down the coast. Lanterns, a tailor and the river after dark.
North to HueOver the Hai Van Pass to the Citadel and the emperors’ tombs.
Inland to My SonCham brick towers in a jungle bowl. Go at sunrise or at sunset.
Just the passThe road itself, with the coastal railway curling below it.
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A French village at 1,400 metres, reached by the longest cable car you will ever ride.
Twenty minutes hanging over jungle, then two stone hands holding a gold walkway above the cloud. Go on the first cars. By late morning the queue is long and the mountain has usually pulled a lid over itself.
The days out more travellers take than anything else in Da Nang.
Every Da Nang review →Eight tours that carry more of this city’s visitors than the rest of the catalogue put together, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour
Explore Da Nang’s Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave with a local guide, lunch, hotel pickup, and useful climbing tips.
From · $23
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Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour
from $21
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Golden Bridge Ba Na Hills Full-Day Tour
from $67
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Han River Local Cruise by Night
from $6
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Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave
from $14
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Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain
from $26
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Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge Tour
from $66
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Da Nang & Hoi An: Food, Sightseeing, Culture & Hidden Gems
from $72
At nine on a Saturday the bridge breathes fire, and the whole river turns to watch.
The Dragon Bridge spits flame and then water down its length at weekends, and half of Da Nang parks on the embankment for it. The other half is on the water, on a flat-bottomed boat with the city lights running past.
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Da Nang eats on the pavement, and it eats better than Hanoi wants to admit.
Turmeric noodles with a rice cracker snapped over the top, banh xeo you roll yourself, seafood straight off the boats at Tho Quang. Book the market walk before the heat, the class that ends as lunch, the evening ride that stops at five kerbs.
What a day out of Da Nang actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by what you pay. A good number of the best days here come in under the price of dinner at home.
River cruises, the marble caves, coffee workshops and the shared minibus to Hoi An.
The full-day standards: Ba Na Hills with the cable car, Hue over the pass, My Son with a boat back.
Private cars with a driver for the day, chartered boats and the once-a-trip splurges that earn it.
Three things that only happen on this stretch of coast.
Beaches and old towns run the length of Vietnam. A mountain of marble hollowed into shrines, a pass where the weather changes sides, and a hundred-metre Buddha watching the fishing fleet do not.
The Marble Mountains
Five limestone hills stand in a row behind My Khe beach, and the biggest one is hollow. Stone stairs cut in the eighteenth century climb to shrines lit by holes in the roof, and a side passage drops into Am Phu, the cave the Nguyen kings treated as a model of hell. The stone carvers still work at the foot of it, which is why the whole village smells of wet marble dust.
- 1Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3,373 reviews
- 2Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,147 reviews
- 3Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,097 reviews
The Hai Van Pass
The Truong Son range runs into the sea here, and the road climbs twenty-one kilometres over the top of it. The mountain splits the country’s weather: Da Nang can be in full sun while Hue sits under grey rain an hour north. The old gate at the summit was fought over for a century, the railway takes the low line along the cliffs, and most drivers now take the tunnel and miss all of it.
- 1Hue Imperial Day Trip, Hai Van Pass Train, & Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 619 reviews
- 2Hue City and The Citadel via Hai Van Pass Daily Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 362 reviews
- 3Hai Van Pass Tour by Motorbike★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 320 reviews
Lady Buddha on Son Tra
Sixty-seven metres of white stone stands on the Son Tra headland with her back to the mountain and her face to the harbour, which is exactly the point: fishermen leaving Da Nang keep her in sight for an hour. The pagoda grounds behind her hold eighteen arhat statues and a view down the whole beach, and the red-shanked douc langurs in the trees above are found nowhere else in the world in these numbers.
- 1Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3,373 reviews
- 2Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,147 reviews
- 3DaNang/HA: Lady Buddha, Marble Mountain & Am Phu Caves Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 670 reviews
Four Da Nang bookings that run on somebody else’s timetable.
Most of this city can be arranged over breakfast for the same afternoon. These four run on cable-car hours, weekend schedules, monsoon swell and a two-and-a-half hour drive that has to happen twice.
- 01Han River Local Cruise by NightThe Dragon Bridge only breathes fire at weekends, at nine in the evening. Turn up on a Tuesday and it is just a bridge.
- 02Cham Island Snorkeling Daily Group Tour, Sunbathing, nice beachesBoats out to Cu Lao Cham stop running in the northeast monsoon and get pulled at short notice whenever the swell comes up.
- 03Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group TourThe cable cars run to posted hours and the last one down does not wait. The cloud usually closes over the summit by late morning.
- 04Hue Imperial Day Trip, Hai Van Pass Train, & LunchHue is two and a half hours over the pass, twice. The day starts early and there is nothing flexible about the return leg.
When the rain arrives it does not drizzle, and the boats stop.
Da Nang takes its whole year of rain in about three months. Typhoons come off the East Sea, the surf shuts the island boats, the Ba Na summit disappears and Bach Ma closes its road. The answer is to go under a roof: a kitchen, a coffee bench, a massage table, or the Cham gallery nobody visits in good weather.
By landmark, from the beach outwards
By kind of day: mountain, water, kitchen or road
The run most people do first: city, mountain, old town.
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