Ba Na Hills has become an indispensable destination in the guidebook both domestic and foreign visitors for a long time. Whenever you come here, you have to adore and use charming words to describe this place. If you put your foot in Da Nang without coming over Ba Na Hills, it will be a huge regret in your life. You will have a chance to enjoy 9 interesting things to do Bana hills here.  Today, Hura Cars team will guide you the ways to get to Ba Na Hills:

SOME OF THE TRANSPORTATION FOR BA NA HILLS TRIP

The coastal city, Da Nang city, is about 45 km from Ba Na Hills Resort, with a quite close distance, visitors have many choices of vehicles to move here including Da Nang private car transfer, local taxi, motorbike, open tour, maybe bike 🙂

• Da Nang to Bana hills by car or taxi:

This transport is suitable for groups of 1 to 12 people. If you travel with families or friends, private cars services are the best choice, we won’t waste time to wait for other, freedom and not limit time by the tour guide

The price is about 850,000 VND / 4 seat car. Choose your departure time and return to the hotel.

Some companies also offer this service with relatively cheap about 600.000 vnd, but the visiting time is limited to 2 hours and the cost per 30 minutes is 100. 000. It is convenient but most of the time to visit and queue to buy tickets is at least 4-6 hours, so the final cost is about 900. 000-1.000. 000 vnd. Ba Na Hills has a lot of attractions and funs that you should not miss.

• Join Bana group tour – open tour:

In Da Nang, the Open bus is a new of transportation that appears recently to solve the hot trends of Golden Bridge in Bana hills.

Disadvantages of open-tour:

• You have to join a large group of 45 people.
• Time to pick up tourists in Da Nang City centre from 7: 30 AM to 8:30 AM, so it means that you have to wait this period.
• Your time to visit is limited from 9:30 AM – 2 PM, if you travel in summer, we waste more time waiting for the cable car (60-90 mins) in the queue.

Your time depends on other small groups in the delegation. So don’t feel uncomfortable about the time for visiting and entertaining when you chose an open tour. However, this kind of transportation helps you save money.

The price for the Open tour is about 900.000 – 1.000.000/ pax. This price includes bus, English speaking guide, lunch at a local restaurant (not in Bana hills) and entrance fee (700.000 vnd)

• By Motorbike:

This is the most popular of local people because of its freedom, cheap. Tourists can choose the department time and return to the hotel. The cost of renting a motorbike in Da Nang is not expensive, range from 200.000vnđ – 300.000vnđ/ motorbike without petrol.

Make sure that you obligate to have your own license and buy travel insurance. Furthermore, You must be the brave when travelling Vietnam by motorbike. We do not recommend this transport.

ROAD FROM DA NANG TO BA NA HILLS BY MOTORBIKE

If you have drive license and have travel insurance, and chose to go from Da Nang to Bana hill by motorbike, here is the guide to get there. With a private car to Ba Na Hills or open tour, you not need to find the map, just relax and driver will do that

• The first route: By Ba Na- Mo Spring Road

Departing from Da Nang city centre, tourists go to Duy Tan Street until meeting the first round. At this roundabout, let’s turn to Nguyen Van Linh Street and go straight until you reach the second round. Arrive at the second round, you follow the entrance to the Nguyen Tri Phuong Street and continue going straight until seeing the third roundabout and then turn into Đien Bien Phu Street. From Dien Bien Phu Street, you keep going straight, see the fourth round, turn into National Highway 1A, continue to turn left Bà Nà- Suối Mơ/ Hoàng Văn Thái and follow the directions to Ba Na Hills Resort.

• The second route: Driving via Road 602

Like the directions at the first route but when you go to Nguyen Tri Phuong street, you turn into Le Do street instead of running to Dien Bien Phu street and then turn left Nguyen Tat Thanh street. On Nguyen Tat Thanh, tourists keep going straight to turn left Nguyen Luong Bang/ National Highway 1A to go across ĐT602 and follow directions to Ba Na.

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• The third route: Hoi An to Bana hills – driving via Highway AH1

Departing from Hoi An ancient town, we drive to Nguyen Tri Phuong Str in Da Nang, it has around toll, we won’t go into Nguyen Huy Tho, you have to turn left to Cach Mang Thang 8 Street, then turn right on National Highway 14A. You continue going straight and turn right bypass the city. Turn left on Bana – Suoi Mo road, then follow directions to reach Ba Na Hills.

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Noted: travelling by motorbike in Vietnam and in Da Nang too, you should make sure that you have a driving license. The route to Bana hills via AH1 then get in the Bana Suoi Mo, you have to ride through the small pass, you should be careful and go slowly.

You can not go to the mountaintop of Bana hills by motorbike, there is a pass also, but they not allow you riding, we must buy Bana hills ticket near the parking and ger cable car.

You just want to visit Golden Bridge and not interest in other place or game, you have to buy a ticket with the same price: 700.000 vnd/ adults and 500.000 vnd/ children.

WHERE TO RENTING MOTORBIKE OR PRIVATE CAR SERVICES

In Da Nang, there are many company offer motorbikes services, you can refer to the following offices and select the best rental place:

• Son Tra District: Trường Đạt – Add k65/86 Tô Hiến Thành
• Son Tra District: Bình Minh – Add: 36 Tạ Mỹ Duật
• Son Tra District: Bảo Long – Add: 14 Nguyễn Thiện K
• Hai Chau District: Anh Tuấn – Add: k141/16 Tiểu La
• Hai Chau District: Anh Hậu – Add: 83 Trần Phú
• Hai Chau District: Nguyễn Hoàng – Add: 92/19 Thi Sách
• Hai Chau District: Danang bikes – Add: 123 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
• Ngu Hanh Son District: Bảo Tín – Add: 44, Lê Hữu Trác
• Ngu Hanh Son District: Lê Trường – Add: k227/55 Nguyễn Văn Thoại
• Ngu Hanh Son District: Thân Thiện Nhân – Add: 69 Phan Thúc Duyện

Huracars also offer private car transfer from Hoi An to Ba Na Hills and Da Nang to Bana hills for the group from 1 – 12 people, we pick-up and drop-off at your hotel or Da Nang airport. All vehicle in good condition, strong air conditional and we also have the wifi hotspot on the car, and no limit time for visiting, we hope that you receive the most comfortable services from us

You can book here: Bana hills day trip from Hoi An or Da Nang

We hope that we give you an idea to choose the best transport to suitable for your budget and have a good time when exploring Golden Bridge Da Nang.

Ba Na Hills is one of the newest and most exciting parks in central Vietnam. You will see structures that gorgeous courtyards, cobblestone streets, resemble French castles, as well as giant hands with a bridge, giant Buddha statues, underground wine cellars, Asia’s longest cable car ride, beautiful nature, and sweeping views.

Bana hills is a mountain resort complex of world-class restaurants, modern accommodations, and a Fantasy Park full of exciting game, ride.

Here are the top things to do in Ba Na Hills.

1. Scrolling through the Golden bridge

The cable car takes us around 20 minutes from parking to the top of the mountain. When you reach the top of the mountains, you’ll be greeted with the site of the giant colossal hands holding up the infamous Golden Bridge.

Ever wondered that how is it feels like to stroll through the hands of God? Yes, now you will, thanks to Golden Bridge in Bana hills, the bridge is 150m long walking bridge nestled in Morin Station, 1.400 meters above the sea level. The giant hands, that appear to be emerging from the hillside, standing in the Golden bridge you have looked over Da Nang city and the awe-inspiring views of the mountain landscape. When the clouds the entire mountaintop, the illusion is even more complete. It looks like what you see in Disney’s film.

Located 60 minutes driving from Danang city centre, or 90 mins driving from Hoi An, the Golden Bridge (Cầu Vàng) offer a truly sublime experience that makes your trip become well worth.

If you want to visit this site, you have to buy a ticket (700.000 vnd ~ 30 USD) and get the cable car to the mountaintop.

You can book private car from Da Nang to Bana hills, it cost from 50 USD (1.150.000 vnd)/ car

2. Seating in the cable cars

The cable car in Ba Na Hills was completed in 2013 with 1 line and it has been built new line until now and it holds several Guinness World Records, including the longest gap between stations and the greatest change in elevation. You will see the views of Danang city and the coast in the distance, and the fresh jungle.
It is lucky if you catch the Red-shanked douc in the tree. Doucs are, like all monkeys, social animals. They live in groups with an average size of 4 to 15, but groups of up to 50 have been recorded in Bana hills. A group usually consists of one or more males and approximately two females per male.

3. Walking through the French Village

Up the hills, you are impressed by the Alps in France. No, it is Bana and the castle look like a French village. The cobblestone streets and European-style buildings are remarkably well-built considering that this resort is in Vietnam and at an elevation of 1,500 meters.

3. Visiting the wax museum

This museum as creepy as its interesting. Have you ever wondered what your idol or the most famous people stand here and look like up close? Yes, in the Ba Na Hills Wax Museum, you get to see some statue is the same the real person from hair, the hight, clothe… And don’t forget to selfie with them.

5. Riding the pipe mountain coaster

Save the rides in the Fantasy Park for later and head to the Alpine Coaster first while it’s still daytime. The cars can drive up to 35 km/h, it is crazy when passing the hill but you don’t worry, the car control by its own braking system so we can go as slow or fast as we want.

6. Having lunch at the world-class Restaurant

They offer a variety of restaurants with extensive menus and catering services, along with different serving selections – set menu, barbecue, fast food, etc. – the needs and tastes of each visitor are met.

Most of the restaurants can be found in the French village quarter, Fantasy Park. Eating and drinking are a grave art of life, a motto we adhere to fully and completely.

Don’t forget to stop in KavKaz Vista Restaurant, this is a Russian cultural space. The restaurant is designed like an ancient castle. The KavKaz Vista restaurant is famous with a flavor of Russian grilled dishes, tasted with Vodka

7. Take part in the 4D Death Race experience

The cinema is featured with a large 3D screen and moving seats, the Death Race lets you feel the thrills of flying in a F1 air race.  There are even machines for smoke, wind, steam to further trick the senses. It is a nice experience for your kids or the youth.

8. The Drop Tower and Fantasy Park

Bana hills travel guide: 

• If you travel with your kids, please don’t leave them out of your eyes.
• Eating at the restaurant before 11h00 or after 13h00 to avoid the big group’s China
• You can not visit the Golden Bridge without buying tickets (700.000 vnd), it has a road from the parking, but we do not permit drive this route because of dangerous. It used to transfer food and the forest rangers.
• Time visiting Bana Hills from 8h00 – 16h30, all game is stopped by the guards after 17h00. You can spend 4-6 hours in Bana
• You should depart from Hoi An from 7h30 and 8h00 from Da Nang to Bana hills, so you don’t waste more time for waiting and standing the lined up
• Private car transfer or taxi from Hoi An to Bana hills: 1.150.000 vnd (4 seaters) – 1.450.000 vnd (7 seaters)
• Private car transfer or taxi from Da Nang to Bana hills: 850.000 vnd (4 seaters) – 1.050.000 vnd (7 seaters)
• The top of the mountain can be fairly chilly, especially in the winter months. Don’t forget to bring a sweater or a warm jacket, the temperate in Bana hills maybe down 16-19⁰ C

Amongst the most famous foods in Da Nang is the rice paper roll, I make sure that it leaving the great impression to foodie. This famous dishes original from Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province, they have many Ingredients, flavors to make a good dish such as: morning glory with steamed pompano, especial the pork roll with green vegetable, fresh herbs such as bean sprouts, cilantro, diced green onions, banana blossoms, basil and mint. This special dish ate accomdist with special fish sauce from Nam O village or Mam Cay from Dai Loc.

In the first taste, the connoisseurs will agree that this folksy dish has its identical taste to make them hard to forget. Within the pork rice paper roll in Da Nang, the old perspective of eating once but remember forever comes into effect. So, let’s see why the gastronomic masters have been voting the rolls high.

How to make an Pork rice paper roll?

In Da Nang City, the rice paper rolls with pork do not have the sophisticated cooking way. Rather, the quintessence of the rolls lies in the material preparation stage. First of all, the key is the rice paper, which should be the high-quality rice paper with drying mist, rice aroma, and hard-to-broken surface. With the appropriate rice paper, you get the half success to make the dish.

The next step is selecting the fine pork. Boil the pork for a while in the pool of water until the pork becomes soft, its meat turns white, and the fat section looks clear. If you over-boil the meat, it will get dried and shrunken; this is not good for the perfect completion. Therefore, just boil until you notice the soft pork.

Then, the raw vegetables are one of the indispensable ingredients to create the stunning rice paper rolls with pork. Apparently, the plate of the raw vegetable holds the biggest area on the table because there use dozens of the vegetable kinds. For the greatest dish, the vegetables need to be fresh, and they can be found in almost any vegetable garden all year round. Besides, the recipe should include noodle, cucumber, green banana, beansprouts, and especially is the tasty anchovy paste.

To keep the original deliciousness of this food and to ensure the food hygiene & safety, the cooking utensils need to be dipped into the boiled water before they touch the pork.

How to eat the Pork Rice Paper Rolls

It’s a pleasurable process to enjoy the dish. You should take it easy to place the ingredients of pork, vegetables, noodle, beansprouts, etc., in the rice paper appropriately so that you can then create the round and solid roll. With the favorite roll in hand, you enjoy dipping it into the spicy anchovy paste – the best sauce for this dish that cannot be replaced by any other paste. It is the anchovy paste that sets the Da Nang’s pork rice paper roll apart from the other versions across Vietnam. The Da Nang chefs have their own secret to mixing the stunning anchovy paste wining the praises of the many gourmets to enjoy the paste confidently.

When eating, the fresh taste of the vegetables combines with the succulence of the pork and the spicy anchovy paste that enchants hundreds of culinary travelers to Da Nang City – the most worth living city in Vietnam. The renowned pork rice paper roll is a must to try whenever you travel to this young city. Just eat it in the favorite sophisticated restaurants or the street food stalls or the food markets. This delicacy will never disappoint your palate!

Where to eat:

It has many local restaurant in Da Nang serve this special dish, we highlight recommend this restaurant because of friendly staff and their special sauce.

• Bánh tráng thịt heo – Quỳnh Đại Lộc
  176 Nguyen Hoang street, Da Nang city, Vietnam
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Da Nang Airport is located just a few kilometers from city center, it’s used as botth military and civil airport. Da Nang airport is the one of largest in Vietnam.

If you have plan to visit famous My Khe Beach or Hoi An or Hue complex, you will probably land in Danang Airport. The airport was built in 1940, Danang airport has two modern runways with a length of 3km capable of handling large aircraft.

Da Nang had been well-known as the crowded sea port in the past decades, nowadays it is famous as the international airport. Da Nang Airport has received domestic flights from all over province of Vietnam as well as international flights from Hong Kong, Japan, Bangkok, Vientiane, Phnom Penh and Taipei. The recent upgrade of the terminal building has increased the capacity of the DaNang airport to 4 million passengers per year in line with the tremendous economic growth through business and tourism that is seen in the area.

Keep reading: Top things to do in Hoi An 

Danang airport is a convenient airport and not too busy in international arrivals. The arrival port was courteous and quick although the signage was a bit confusing – it would seem that you maybe queue at any desk. There are no arrival cards to fill in which confused plenty of people, who spent time looking for them.

On Arrival

If you need to pick up your Visa on Arrival head to the desk, fill in the form and received from the online visa application you made prior to your flight. Then go to the security area through immigration to the customs inspection area.

Outside, you can find a foreign currency exchange and it is a good idea to get some VND – the currency here before finding a car transfer Da nang airport to Hoi An hotel or from Danang airport to center.

You should book a car transfer before arrival time, so you don’t waste time to wait taxi, they can not communicate by English as well.

Keep reading: Da Nang airport transfer to Hoi An or vice versa

The security process was slow especially when they dealt with foreigner. However the rest was amazing and there was a helpful tourist information which is quite visible within the security area.

As expected most members of staff can only manage very simple English but they were quite helpful.

Da Nang Airport a huge improvement from the dated one next door the business class lounge with reasonable amenities from buffet style food and cold beer and juices available from the self-serve fridge magazine in English and the wifi is free and of course, have many advertisements.

Money can be changed easily at a good rate and there are ATMs.

Da Nang Airport transfer

Danang International Airport is 3 – 8 km from almost resort and hotel in Danang and around 35 km from Hoi An to Da Nang airport. So the best way is renting a private car transfer from you hotel to Danang airport with instant booking via Whatsapp +84 934 899 900. It’s from 12 USD/ sedan, 15 USD/ MPV.

Keep reading: 4 ways transfer Hoi An to Da Nang

Eating & Drinking

While you wait for the flight you can have fast food – Banh My or drink a cup of coffee at the restaurants in the domestic areas.