Ba Na Hills day trip from Da Nang: Golden Bridge & cable car

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Duration8h

GroupUp to 30

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PickupAt your hotel

Cable car, Golden Bridge & mountain lunch in one day from Da Nang

You get picked up from your Da Nang or Hoi An hotel, ride Southeast Asia's most modern cable car up to Ba Na Hills, walk across the Golden Bridge, explore the French Village and its temples, eat a 100-dish buffet lunch, and have free time in Fantasy Park before returning to your hotel. Cable car, lunch, and guide are all included; the day runs eight hours total.

Step-by-step itinerary

Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge Tour

Pick up from hotel in Da Nang or Hoi An
Travel by bus to Ba Na cable car station
Ride modern cable car to Golden Bridge
Take climbing train to mountain top
Visit Le Jardin D’Amour and Debay Wine Cellar
Explore Ling Ung Pagoda
Take second cable car to French Village
Experience French Village and watch performances
Enjoy free ride on Slide of Tube Car
Have buffet lunch with over 100 dishes
Free time at Fantasy Park and attractions
Return to cable car for departure
Bus back to hotel and tour ends

The Experience

The cable car climbs out of the valley in silence, and then the Golden Bridge appears below you—two giant stone hands lifting a ribbon of gold between the peaks. Ba Na Hills sits about 1,500 meters up, and the ride there takes roughly 20 minutes on what the operators call Southeast Asia's most modern cable car. You board around 9:15am after the bus picks you up from your Da Nang or Hoi An hotel between 7:30 and 8:00, and by the time you step out at the top, the whole landscape has flipped. The air is cooler. The light is different. You're standing on the Golden Bridge itself, which made it onto some list of the world's ten most unusual bridges, and yeah, it's exactly as strange and photogenic as it sounds.

After the bridge, there's a climbing train that takes you deeper into the complex—past Le Jardin D'Amour, which is nine separate gardens strung together, then down to the Debay Wine Cellar where they've kept old French colonial winery equipment, and the Ling Ung Pagoda sitting quiet at the edge. A second cable car drops you into the French Village, which is the part that catches people off guard. It's a recreation of a Paris street, complete with a Campanile tower, a Nine Floor Goddess Shrine, street musicians, and statues. There's a Carnival Performance Show running, and you can ride the Slide of Tube Car for free if you want something that feels less like tourism and more like you're testing your nerve. By 12:30, you're back down eating lunch at a buffet with over 100 dishes—Vietnamese, Asian, Western, all mixed together. The pace is loose here; you eat when you're hungry and take as long as you need.

The afternoon splits into two paths. Some people head straight to Fantasy Park, which sits inside the Ba Na Hills complex and includes a Fairy Forest walk, a Dinosaur Park, 5D and 4D rides, a Free Fall Tower, and about 90 other games and attractions scattered across the grounds. Others just sit, rest, and watch the mountain. You've got until 3:00pm before the bus gathers everyone for the cable car ride back down. The whole day—from pickup to drop-off—runs about eight hours, and you're back at your hotel between 4:00 and 5:00pm. The guide speaks English the whole way and handles all the timing, so you're not checking maps or worrying about the cable car schedule. It's one of those days where the logistics disappear and you just move through the mountain.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup from Da Nang or Hoi An, round-trip cable car rides on the most modern system in Southeast Asia, entry to the Golden Bridge, access to the French Village with its temples and attractions, a 100-dish buffet lunch, free time in Fantasy Park, bottled water throughout, an English-speaking guide, and return transport to your hotel. All fees and taxes are covered.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats availableNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Hanoi Green Travel

Is this one for you?A good fit if you want the main Ba Na Hills attractions—the Golden Bridge, French Village, and mountain lunch—without arranging transport or timing the cable cars yourself. The full day out (eight hours) is what lets you see both the upper and lower sections and still have free time to explore Fantasy Park.