Da Nang Trip Overview
This tour is designed particularly for first time travelers to central Vietnam.
Explore the beauty of Da Nang and Hoi An in just one day. Follow your guide around historically and culturally significant landmarks in Da Nang like Marble Mountain and Linh Ung Pagoda. After Da Nang, head down to Hoi An to explore the ancient town a destination that’s also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Da Nang, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Da Nang, Vietnam, Vietnam
This tour is designed particularly for first time travelers to central Vietnam.
Explore the beauty of Da Nang and Hoi An in just one day. Follow your guide around historically and culturally significant landmarks in Da Nang like Marble Mountain and Linh Ung Pagoda. After Da Nang, head down to Hoi An to explore the ancient town a destination that’s also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Itinerary
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Stop At: The Marble Mountains, Hoa Hai, Ngu Hanh Son, Da Nang 550000 Vietnam
– Marble Mountains are a cluster of five hills made from limestone and marble in Da Nang. It’s also a well-known pilgrimage site with peaks, caves, tunnels and temples all just waiting to be discovered. Named after the elements metal, wood, water, fire and earth, Marble Mountains exist in a coastal area that is renowned for stone-cutting and sculpture about 9km south of Da Nang.
– The caves within the mountains hold many secrets including bullet holes from when troops used to spy on the US soldiers relaxing on My Khe Beach below and buildings standing within the caves and grottoes.
There are also Buddhist sanctuaries and places of worship dotted across the mountains which are a much-visited spiritual site.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Linh Ung Pagoda, Bai But, Da Nang 550000 Vietnam
A meeting place of heaven and earth’s sacred air and people’s heart
Just 9 km away from the city center, Linh Ung – Bai But pagoda is now considered as the largest pagoda in Da Nang City in both scale and art of architecture. The pagoda brings a contemporary style combined with inherent tradition of pagodas in Vietnam, with curved roof in dragon shape, the solid pillars surrounded by sophisticated sinuous dragons.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Hoi An Ancient Town, Hoi An 560000 Vietnam
-Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.
-The surviving wooden structures and street plan are original and intact and together present a traditional townscape of the 17th and 18th centuries, the survival of which is unique in the region. The town continues to this day to be occupied and function as a trading port and centre of commerce. The living heritage reflecting the diverse communities of the indigenous inhabitants of the town, as well as foreigners, has also been preserved and continues to be passed on. Hoi An Ancient Town remains an exceptionally well-preserved example of a Far Eastern port.
Duration: 2 hours
