Ba Na Hills is an attractive tourist destination of Da Nang city. For a long time, this “hill” was considered a “trump card”, attracting thousands of tourists to Danang every year. If you are planning to Ba Na Hills mountain resort, please refer to the following Ba Na Hills Travel Guide – where I will tell you about all the experiences which I have experienced as a local English Speaking Tour Guide.
The best time for visiting Ba Na Hills
Consider what you would like so you can choose the best time for the upcoming Ba Na Hills tour.
If you like to have a lot of fun, then come here around April to August because this time period coincides with the high tourist season. Therefore, you are free to play from morning to night without fear of “cooling down”.
If you like quiet space, go in the spring (January – March), or winter (October to December). These times are low season, the weather is cool so you will have the opportunity to fully enjoy the beauty of Ba Na Hills.
How to go to Ba Na Hills?
Before climbing to Ba Na Hills, you must “transit” through DaNang city center. Ba Na hills is located in the west side of Danang city. You can catch a bus or book a flight to Danang city.
Previously, then go to Ba Na Hills by many kinds of vehicle (by your choice) such as motorbikes, taxis or renting cars with heavy packages. The details for each vehicle have been filtered out in the following table:
| Motorbike | Car | Taxi | |
| Price | 80,000 VND- 200,000 VND/bike/day | 700.000 VND – 1.000.000 VND/day | 350.000 VND – 450.000 VND/way |
| Objects | Couples and Small group of backpackers | Families have little children or seniors | Rapid demand |
You can also book with MyVietTrip for a Private Ba Na Hills Tour with a local enthusiatic English Speaking Tour Guide. Other choice for you is a Daily Ingroup Tour which is cheaper and good organise too.
- Private tour is very flexible for you to enjoy your wonderful trip to Ba Na Mountain Resort. Price of private tour depends on the size of your group. Feel free to call Mr Phuoc Ho to have a full details of a private tour to Ba Na Hills
- Daily Ingroup Tour: The tour price ranges from 1,200,000 VND – 1,450,000 VND/person. (~55USD/person)
Advantages: cost-saving, no need to prepare the vehicle, just take the camera up and go for full memory. It is included an English speaking tour guide, pick-up and drop-off bus, cable car ticket, lunch buffet, water.
Disadvantages: You have to follow the schedule and return at the specified time.
Ba Na Hills Cable Car
Arrive the foot of the mountain, you need to buy tickets to go to Ba Na Hills. In the low season, you can freely buy tickets at the main entrance. However, during the high season, I recommend that you should buy tickets in advance through the travel agency, or at your hotel. If not, you will have to wait wearily to buy the tickets. Mr Phuoc also provides ticket assistance and information to assist you. Feel free to call Mr Phuoc – MyVietTrip.
Entrance Ticket (Cable car Ticket) Price
| Children under 1 meter (3.28 feet) | Free |
| Children 1 meter – 1.4 meters (4.59 feet) | 600,000VND/person (~26.5$) |
| Adult above 1.4 meters | 750,000VND/person (~33$) |
| Note: This ticket includes round trip cable car rides and 90 games at Fantasy Park. | |
7 must-see in Bà Nà Hills
Golden Bridge
Golden Bridge is a magical, beautiful tourist destination in Danang city. Many visitors on a Danang tour are curious and fascinated by the beauty of this place. Today, let’s go with MyVietTrip to discover this wonderful place.
Fresh Cool Air
This mountain resort is located on the top of Nui Chua Mountain – the most beautiful mountain in Da Nang, 1487m attitude, fresh and cool climate all year.
Every corner is so beautiful
The road to Bà Nà Hills is considered “The Road to Fairyland”. Indeed not wrong! During the cable car ride from the foot of the mountain to the station up hill, you will admire the green primary forest. The higher uphill, the cooler climate, get to the first station you may be standing taller than the white clouds.
A unique hilltop carnival center in Vietnam
Danang is nearly different from other coastal cities in the world, nowhere has both a beautiful beach and a moutain resort.
Every day in Ba Na there are street minishow, festivals, dancing, music.
Fantasy Park
The Fantasy Park indoor games in Ba Na has more than 90 games, for all ages. The most attracting Mr Phuoc is adventure games such as Alpine Coaster (roller coaster), Drop – free-falling towers from a height of 29 metesr, skiver pilots (sitting on a super-ferris wheel, and then being turned on very high speed), free climbing… etc and many other interesting games.
Children also have their own games area, 3D-4D-5D movie theater, Wax Museum with famous people all over the world, Dinosaur park, Journey to the ground, Haunted house, Magic garden…etc.
Le Jardin D’Amour Flower Garden
With 9 gardens at Le Jardin D’Amour, which is a delightful 9-story. 9 unique architectural styles have created a poetic and richly landscaped overview. 9 gardens are called respectively: Legend Garden, Mo Spring Garden, Memory Garden, Thought Garden, Love Garden, Holy Garden, Heaven Garden, Secret Garden, Grape Garden.
French Village
French Village at Sun World Ba Na Hills represents a classic and romantic France with a combination of unique buildings: squares, churches, towns, villages, and hotels. Coming to the French Village, tourists can feel like they are traveling back in time, experiencing the delicate and poetic living space of one of the oldest countries in the world.
The story of Ba Na Mountain
In 1901, when Vietnam was still a French colony, after finding and building a resort in Da Lat, Governor-General of Indochina Paul Doumer entrusted Captain Victor Adrien Debay with the task of finding a cool climate to build resorts and treat diseases in Da Nang and Hue.
After a period of searching, Debay found a mountain of more than 1400m high attitude, about 30km west of Da Nang. But it was not until 1919 that the first hotel was built in Ba Na.
Those day only French officers and Vietnamese high officers came here to rest. Nowsaday everyone can come here easily because the road is convenient and the cable car system shortens time a lot.
After the French withdrew from Vietnam, Ba Na Hills tourist area was destroyed. It was not until 1999 that the Da Nang government had a plan to restore the resort. And as a result, today Sungroup has built a new international resort area in Ba Na – Nui Chua Mountain.
Why is it called: Ba Na Hills?
There are currently three main explanations of the origin of the name of Bà Nà Hills:
- They think there were many bananas in the Nui Chua mountain very long time ago, so the French people called Banane montagne, but the Vietnamese people read it as Ba Na. It sounds reasonable!
- The second theory, according to writer Nguyen Ngoc, the word “Ba Na” in the Katu language means “my house”. *Katu is one of minority ethnic group of Vietnam.
- The third explanation: in the past, this land belonged to the Kingdom of Champa (before Huyen Tran Princess married King Che Man, he offered to give land to Tran Dynasty), the Champa people worshiped Ponagar godess, or also known as Thien Ya Na, so called Ba Na mountain for short.
TRAVEL GUIDES
Even you take a tour and have a tour guide or visit Ba Na Hills by yourself, I would like to recommend for you a plan which is considered nearly the best way to visit all parts of Ba Na Mountain Resort.
Part 1: Entrance Gateway
Step 1: Arrive Ba Na Hills, you can get in the gate, take 1 map with you, there are 4 languges: Vietnamese, English, Korean and Chinese. You go upstair then follow the long corridor which is painted the picture of Hoi An Ancient Town. In the end of the Long Corridor, you turn left for Hoi An Cable Car Station (Number 5 on Map). You queue up for the cable car and present the ticket at the newest station (Hoi An station). Ba Na Hill has 3 stations, currently Hoi An station is used as the best station.
Part 2: Golden Bridge – Wine Cellar – Flower Gardens – Linh Ung Pagoda
Step 2: After 20 minutes on cable car, you stop at the MARSEILLE station (No.18). With this station you will visit in turn: the Golden Bridge, Wine cellar, Le Jardin flower garden, Maze, Linh Ung Pagoda.
Order as follows: from here you walk through the Golden Bridge (new check-in place opened in Ba Na Hills) – next will go to Debay wine cellar – Le ’Jardin flower garden – Linh Ung pagoda (Follow the orange line on my map)
Step 3: Return to Le ’Jardin Station (No.13) to take the climbing train to D ‘Amour station (No.12), from here walk down to Debay station (No.11). Continue on another cable car to the French village. (Follow the yellow line on my map)
Part 3: French Village – Fantasy Park – Spritual Zone
Step 4: Go to Morin Station (No.29) – Welcome to the French village! Here you turn your left hand and you will see the queue area play the super game – The Alpine Coaster
Tips: This game is the best game for many players, you should line up from the beginning as soon as possible.
Step 5: After playing this game, you should have lunch. If you would like to have a buffet luch, you can go to restaurant CLUB (No.22), La Lavande (No.39), ARAPANG (No.23) or Beer Plaza (No.46) or European restaurant in French village: Caucasus (No.26), L ‘Etable (No.31), Brasserie (No.35), Le’ Jardin (No.36), La Pensee (No.37).
Step 6: After lunch, go to Fantasy Park (No.25), pay attention, don’t be too full if you’re going to play adventurous and thrilling games.
Step 7: After playing the game, you can walk around the square to attend the minishow, take a walk in the French village to take pictures.
Step 8: Walk up to Tru Vu Tra Quan to sit for tea (if your family has seniors) and go to the spiritual area (No.41) here there is the Godess temple and the Bell tower watching the beautiful French village from above.
Part 4: Come back
Step 9: Now you can return to Louvre Station (No. 21) or L’INDOCHINE (No.30) to get down to the parking lot at the foot of the mountain, back to the city. INDONCHINE station is a cable car reaching 4 Guinness world records:
- The longest cable car route of 5,771 meters
- The highest altitude difference between departure station and destination station with 1,369 meters
- The longest cable with 11,587m
- The heaviest cable roll with 141.24 tons
6 costumes notes for traveling to Ba Na Hills
What should we wear to Ba Na Hills? Mr Phuoc has a few notes for you about cotumes:
- Every season you should bring a light jacket, because on 1487m altitude colder weather below the city center.
- Scenes in Ba Na Hill are poetic, with clouds and sky, mountains, flowers – white is the easiest to wear.
- Don’t be colorful – I don’t tell you why but trust me
- Shoes: you should wear sports shoes, because in Ba Na Hills have to walk, activate quite much. It will not be convenient if you wear high heels.
- Should bring a hat on a sunny day
- Remember to bring sunscreen too!
Thank you and see you again!
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I write long article with the desire to share the most details so that you will not waste your time for information searching.
Hopefully, these experiences that I have shared above, it will help you “to pocket” a lot of useful travel tips for your upcoming Ba Na Hills trip. If you find a newer and more interesting place, please share it with me and let everyone know. Wish you a fun and enjoyable Ba Na Hills Trip!
Mr. Phuoc Ho | MyVietTrip
