The Golden Bridge is one morning. The rest of this coast takes a week.
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The mountain, the caves, the lanterns, the pass north.
Four bookings a first week in Da Nang usually gets built around, and what each one costs.
01The mountain dayFull Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group TourCable car up Ba Na, the Golden Bridge before the crowd thickens, buffet lunch in the French village.
02The first morningMorning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey MountainMarble Mountain, the lit staircase down into Am Phu cave, then the coast road round Son Tra. Back by lunch.
03The evening southGuided Tour to Marble Mountains & Hoi An Walking Tour , Night Market, Boat RideHoi An on foot once the traffic is barred, the night market, and a candle boat on the Thu Bon.
04The long day northHue Imperial Day Trip, Hai Van Pass Train, & LunchOver the Hai Van Pass by train, the Citadel at Hue, lunch on the Perfume River. Six hours of it is travel.
Ba Na Hills: one cable car, four ways to ride it.
The Golden Bridge sits at 1,400 metres and everything on that mountain hangs off the same cable-car system. What changes is who drives you to the station, whether lunch is included, and how early you clear the gate.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour
The full day upCable car, the bridge, the French village and a buffet.
Ticket onlyRide up on your own timing, no group, no guide.
Private car to the gateYour own driver to the station and waiting when you come down.
After the day groups goCool air, the light shows and a quieter bridge.
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Da Nang is the base. Hoi An, Hue and the Cham towers are the days out.
A resort in the clouds at 1,400 metres, an old town lit by lanterns an hour south, an imperial citadel over the pass, brick towers in a jungle valley, and the limestone stacks standing in the sand at My Khe.
The days out of Da Nang that fill up first.
The full Da Nang catalogue →More travellers take these than anything else on this coast, and what earns each of them the slot.
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Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour
Travel from Da Nang to Ba Na Hills in a small group of up to 12, ride the mountain cable car, visit Golden Bridge, French Village, Linh Ung Pagoda, and Fantasy Park. English-speaking guides such as Jun, Lin, and Miss Banana help with timing, photos, and weather changes.
From · $21
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2
Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain
from $26
3
Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge Tour
from $66
4
Da Nang & Hoi An: Food, Sightseeing, Culture & Hidden Gems
from $72
5
Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain Sunset tour
from $22
6
Ba Na Hills with Golden Bridge Private Tour
from $75
7
Hoi An Ancient Town Sunset Daily Ingroup Tour
from $33
8
Lady Buddha, Marble Mountain & Am Phu Caves Tour
from $21
Hoi An after dark is why half of Da Nang books a driver.
The old town bars its lanes to traffic in the evening, the lanterns come on along the Thu Bon and the sampans push out carrying candles. Almost every run down here leaves Da Nang after lunch, takes the Marble Mountains on the way, and stays for the lights.
What a day out of Da Nang actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by what you pay. Vietnam is cheap and the ladder shows it: a morning on the Marble Mountains costs less than lunch does at home.
Cave mornings, night-market walks, cooking classes and the cable-car ticket on its own.
The full days out: Ba Na with a buffet, Hue over the pass, My Son and the boat back down the river.
A car and driver for the whole day, chartered boats to Cham Island, and the private runs down the coast.
Three things that only happen on this stretch of coast.
Beaches and old towns turn up all over Vietnam. A bridge carried by two stone hands, a cave staged as the underworld, and a round woven boat that spins on purpose do not.
The Golden Bridge
A 150-metre walkway curves out of the hillside at Ba Na, apparently carried by two enormous weathered stone hands, and it opened in 2018 to a level of attention nobody planned for. Getting there means one of the longest non-stop cable-car runs in the world, up through jungle and cloud to a hilltop the French built a hill station on a century ago. The bridge is busiest late morning; the mountain is often above the weather when the city below is grey.
- 1Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,369 reviews
- 2Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 938 reviews
- 3Ba Na Hills with Golden Bridge Private Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 708 reviews
Am Phu Cave
Inside Thuy Son, the largest of the five Marble Mountains, a staircase drops into a cave the Vietnamese call Am Phu, the hell cave. Carved scenes of judgement and punishment line the lower chamber in half-light; a second, harder scramble climbs towards a bright opening at the top. It is a genuinely dark, genuinely steep cave, and it sits ten minutes from a beach full of sun loungers.
- 1Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,097 reviews
- 2Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain Sunset tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 781 reviews
- 3Lady Buddha, Marble Mountain & Am Phu Caves Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 670 reviews
The Basket Boats
Round woven coracles, thung chai, are working fishing boats along this coast, and in the water-coconut channels at Cam Thanh outside Hoi An they have become the afternoon everyone remembers. You get paddled through the palms, shown how a crab trap and a cast net actually work, and then somebody spins a boat on its axis to music until the whole channel is applauding.
- 1Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, Coconut Jungle & Hoian City Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 370 reviews
- 2Coconut Village Boat and Hoi An City Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 277 reviews
- 3Lantern Making, Basket Boat, and Cooking Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 233 reviews
Four Da Nang bookings that will not wait.
Most of this coast can be arranged over breakfast on the day. These four run on cable-car hours, sea conditions and minibuses that leave once.
- 01Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group TourEverything on Ba Na runs off one cable-car system with a fixed last car down, so a late start costs you the top of the mountain.
- 02Cham Island Snorkeling Daily Group Tour, Sunbathing, nice beachesThe crossing is called off whenever the sea gets up, and it closes for long stretches of the wet season. Put it early in the trip so a lost day can be moved.
- 03Hue Imperial Day Trip, Hai Van Pass Train, & LunchHue is three hours each way over the Hai Van Pass, and the small-group runs leave once, early. There is no afternoon option.
- 045 Dishes Cooking Class with Market Trip in Da NangA class takes a fixed number of seats and shops for them at the morning market, so the same-day answer is usually no.
Da Nang takes most of its year of rain between September and December.
The wet months arrive in autumn and can shut the boats for days at a time. May to August does the opposite and turns the middle of the day into something to sit out. Both have the same answer: a kitchen, a table, a treatment room.
By place — Da Nang and the belt around it
By kind of day — mountain, cave, kitchen or boat
Marble Mountains, Ba Na Hills, Hoi An, Hue: the run almost everybody does first.
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