Da Nang sits in the middle of everything. Pick a direction.
Stone hands holding a bridge in the clouds to the west, lantern-lit Hoi An to the south, the Hai Van Pass and the old capital at Hue to the north. Reviews of every day out you can book from the city.
Four days out that most Da Nang trips are built around.
The hill station in the clouds, the city’s own marble peaks, the motorbike road north and an evening in Hoi An. What each costs and what the people who went thought of it.
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01from $67Above the clouds Golden Bridge Ba Na Hills Full-Day Tour The giant stone hands, the cable car up Ba Na Hills and the French village at the top, in one long day. -
02from $23The city’s own peaks Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour Lady Buddha on Son Tra, then the caves inside Marble Mountains. Back in town before the afternoon heat. -
03from $55The road north Easy Rider private tour via Hai Van pass from Hue – Da Nang – Hoi An (1Way|Loop) The Hai Van Pass from the back of a motorbike, with a rider who knows every switchback and viewpoint. -
04from $33The lantern evening Marble Mountains – Hoi An Ancient Town Sunset Daily Ingroup Tour Marble Mountains in the late afternoon, then Hoi An as the silk lanterns come on along the river.
Up the mountain, down to Hoi An, or over the pass to Hue.
Almost every Da Nang itinerary is four day trips with a beach in between. Here is what each one costs to book and what kind of day it is.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Ba Na Hills – Golden Bridge Deluxe Small group
Ba Na HillsThe Golden Bridge, the cable car and a mock-French hill town at 1,400m.
Hoi AnThe old trading port, its yellow walls and the river full of lanterns.
Hue & the Hai Van PassThe coast road north to the citadel of the last emperors.
My SonBrick Cham temple towers in a jungle valley, best seen early.
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The Da Nang days out with the longest queues to join.
Every Da Nang tour we have reviewed →More travellers take these than anything else from the city, and here is what earns each one its place.
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Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour
This 4.5 to 5-hour small-group tour pairs Lady Buddha’s 67-meter statue with the tunnels and dramatic chambers of Marble Mountains and Am Phu Cave. Expect an English-speaking guide, hotel pickup in selected areas, and a local lunch on the shared morning tour. Guides vary; names include Michael, Thien, Kevin, and Sherlock.
From · $23
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Ba Na Hills – Golden Bridge Deluxe Small group
from $21
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Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour
from $21
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Easy Rider private tour via Hai Van pass from Hue – Da Nang – Hoi An (1Way|Loop)
from $55
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Han River Local Cruise by Night
from $6
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Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave
from $14
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Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain
from $26
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Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge Tour
from $66
Marble Mountains and Son Tra: two climbs you can reach by taxi.
South of town five limestone hills hide pagodas inside their caves; north, the Son Tra peninsula holds the 67-metre Lady Buddha and a forest of red-shanked douc langurs. Most half-day tours do both before lunch.
Da Nang saves its best show for the river at night.
The bridges light up in sequence after sunset, the Dragon Bridge breathes fire on weekend nights, and the riverside street-food stalls run until late. The cheapest good evening in the city costs about the price of a coffee.
Hoi An: a lantern town that is best by boat.
The old port shuts its streets to traffic in the evening and the river fills with paper lanterns. Upstream at Cam Thanh the round bamboo basket boats spin through the coconut palms. Stay a night if you can; most people only manage a day.
- 1Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, Coconut Jungle & Hoian City Tourfrom $69
- 2Coconut Village Boat and Hoi An City Tourfrom $40
- 3Market Tour, Basket Boat Ride, Cooking Classfrom $18
Three things you will only see around Da Nang.
Beaches and night markets are all over Southeast Asia. A pair of stone hands in the clouds, caves full of altars and a round boat that spins are not.
The Golden Bridge
A curved gold walkway about 150 metres long, opened in 2018 near the top of Ba Na Hills and carried on two vast weathered hands. The French built a hill station up here in the 1910s to escape the coastal heat; today you reach it by one of the longest cable cars in the world. Cloud often rolls across the bridge by midday.
- 1Ba Na Hills – Golden Bridge Deluxe Small group★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,613 reviews
- 2Full Day Golden Bridge and Ba Na Hills Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,369 reviews
- 3Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,147 reviews
The Marble Mountains
Five limestone and marble hills, each named for an element: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Thuy Son, the water mountain, is the one you climb, past pagodas and into caves where shafts of daylight fall on Buddhas carved from the rock. Am Phu Cave below it is a walk through the Buddhist underworld.
- 1Lady Buddha, Marble Mountains, and Am Phu Cave Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3,373 reviews
- 2Golden Bridge, Lady Buddha, Marble Mt & Am Phu Cave★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,147 reviews
- 3Morning Small group to Marble Mountains – Am Phu Cave – Monkey Mountain★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,097 reviews
The Basket Boats
In the nipa palm waterways at Cam Thanh, just outside Hoi An, fishermen still use thung chai, round boats woven from bamboo and sealed with resin. Local legend says the shape began as a way round a colonial tax on boats. The rowers have turned the spin into a show, and you will be handed a paddle.
- 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
- 3Market Tour, Basket Boat Ride, Cooking Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 253 reviews
What a Da Nang day out costs, from a river cruise to a private car.
Every tour on the site, sorted by price. The city is cheap and a lot of the best days come in under the price of a hotel dinner.
River cruises, coffee classes, shared buses to Ba Na and the group days to My Son.
The full-day standards: small-group Golden Bridge days, cooking classes, Hue by the coast road.
Private cars and guides, jeeps over the pass and the cruise-port shore days.
Over the cloud pass to Hue, the slow and scenic way.
The old coast road climbs 500 metres over the Truong Son spur between Da Nang and Lang Co, with an abandoned French fort at the top. The tunnel underneath saves forty minutes and misses all of it.
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Four Da Nang plans that run on somebody else’s clock.
Most of the city can be sorted the night before from a hotel lobby. These four depend on the first cable car, a weekend show, the sea state or the hour the valley heats up.
- 01GOLDEN BRIDGE – Guided Tour in the Early Morning to Avoid CrowdsBa Na Hills takes thousands of visitors on a busy day and the bridge is shoulder to shoulder by late morning. Only the first cable cars up find it quiet.
- 02Poseidon Cruise with Dinner and Dragon Bridge ShowThe Dragon Bridge breathes fire and water on Saturday and Sunday nights only, at nine. Book the river for a weekend or you see a lit bridge and nothing more.
- 03Cham Island Snorkeling Daily Group Tour, Sunbathing, nice beachesThe speedboats to the Cham Islands run when the sea allows. Through the autumn and winter monsoon crossings are often cancelled, so plan this one for the drier months.
- 04My Son Sanctuary Morning Tour & Early Morning with Boat TripMy Son sits in a closed green valley that traps the heat. The gates open early, and the first tours in walk the towers before the coaches and the midday sun.
When the autumn rain sets in over Da Nang and Hoi An.
From September to December the central coast takes most of its year’s rain, typhoons come through in October and November, and the river at Hoi An can spill into the old town. Boats and mountain days get cancelled. Kitchens, coffee bars, spas and theatres do not.
Hue to My Son: the central coast in the order the road runs.
Hai Van Pass
Da Nang
Marble MountainsBy place, from the city outward
By kind of day: river, road, kitchen or spa
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Airport Transfer (From Hotel in Hoi An to Da Nang Airport) 7 Seat Car
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Guided Ba Na Hills & Golden Bridge Day Tour from Hoi An/Da Nang
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Transfer from Danang/Airport/Transtation to Hoi An by Private Car
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Da Nang Basket Boat Ride in Hoi An City with Release Lantern
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DANANG Airport to Hoi An CITY OR RETURN By Private Car
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Marble Mountain -Buddha Statue -PeakMonkey Mountain -PRIVATE CAR
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Tasty Dinner Han River Dragon Cruise by Yatch & Tradictional Show
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Ba Na Hills with Golden Bridge and Cable Car Daily Tour
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