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REVIEW TRAVEL TO DA NANG

REVIEW TRAVEL TO DA NANG 4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS

This content using some information from a Facebook review Vietnamese group I take part in. I think it is quite detailed and useful someways and you can consider!

Suitable time for travel Da Nang

The most attractive times is from the end of May to the first half of August (this time the cost of airfare, accommodation will also increase accordingly). So if you want to have a great trip that saves you should choose from the second half of March to before 30/4 and from the second half of August to the end of September. This is the time before and after the peak of travel that the airfare and room prices were lower while the weather’s still good.

  Fixed cost for a person (this is just as an example, it depends on time, places, services… choosed):

·         Flight ticket: $ 40

·         Hotel (4 nights): $30

·         4,5 days for motorbike hire (including fuel): $14 (in Vietnam using motobike is one of the most convenient service when traveling, you can save a lot of money in stead of taxi and you are more active in your trips)

·         Taxi for airport transfer: $8

·         Ba Na Hills: $27

·         Cu Lao Cham: $26

·         Sundry money: $8

·         Eating for 4.5 days: Depending on you

DAY 1: HANOI - DA NANG – DRAGON BRIDGE

Ø  6 Pm: Landing Da Nang, waiting for the motorcycle (in Da Nang delivery car at the point you want, quite convenient). : D

The address for renting a motorbike of your choice is Huu Long motorbike, Include 2 raincoats + 1 liter of gasoline + map Da Nang. At the time we rented the motor, the road is ok, but the passing of Son Tra peninsula is so rough so when renting the motor you should choose Wave 110 or Sirius (brand name of motors). When you book your motor remember to say that you will return it at the airport so you will not have to take a taxi to the airport.

Ø  6:30 Pm: Check-in to the hotel.

Note: the first two days in Baoban hotel. Nice rooms, clean, price $7/ person.

Ø  7:30 Pm: Eat rice rolls pork rolls ( Banh trang cuon) at Dai Loc: 97 Trung Nu Vuong, this store is quite famous and eat well, only $1.5 / full meal.

After that, moving to the Dragon Bridge check-in bridge Love and wait to see the bridge spray water, spray fire. According to experience travel Danang people share and from myself if you want to have nice videos the Dragon scene should stand under the bridge, if you want to see the scene, then go up on the bridge.

Ø  9:00 Pm – 9:08 Pm: Bridge to spray water and fire. Then go to My Khe beach wind, take the air, eat something… -> go back to the room.

DAY 2: HILLS COAST – MY KHE BEACH - DRAGON

Morning 6:30: Preparing, do breakfast and drive to Ba Na Hills to play, 2 pm down the mountain. Experience going to Ba Na Hills:

Ø  Try to go early to play comfortably, do not worry queue, Ba Na cable car service starts from 7h30.

Ø  From the foot of the mountain cable car to the first station, down you go to the mountain train to go wine cellar, garden, Linh Ung Pagoda - Here enjoy the scenery and check-in. Then return to the cable car station to go to the next station.

Ø  At this station, there will be an amusement park and a Vietnamese-French village with ancient French architecture. You should go to the playground in the house to explore because you will be absent, play out for lunch and then explore French-Vietnamese village, down the foot of the mountain and the city

Ø  4:00 Pm at Huong Che shop: 288 Phan Chau Trinh eat Che: $0.5/ cup, this’s nice

Ø  5:00 Pm: My Khe Beach, take photo check-in beautiful beach.

Ø  7:00 Pm: look for seafood restaurant Nam Danh (This shop is located deep in the alley and far from the center, usually only the locals know this place). The food here is all 60,000 VND / dish, fresh food, especially his delicious tonic. Address: Kiet 139 / Alley 59 / No. 38 Tran Quang Khai.

Finished eating, come back to Dragon Bridge watching the dragon spray water and fire.

Evening wandering Che Thai Lien: 189 Hoang Dieu

Finally to bridge the bridge overlooking the Han River, beautiful before going to sleep.

Tips: In 10h45 go to bridge, stop the motor and look at.

DAY 3: LAO CHAM - HOI AN

Get up then move to homestay

The road from Da Nang to Cu Lao Cham is approximately 40km, running along the coast is very beautiful.

Note: Cu Lao Cham is the biosphere reserve of the world, famous for its beautiful coral reefs. However, in recent years, corals are dying, so I went to see them on the last day. In return, the beach here is very beautiful, with shady coconut lunch at noon.

According to the Cu Lao Cham travel schedule, the tour will go to Hai Tang pagoda, the same ancient Cham Pa, but today I cut the group should be cut,  only trip to see the coral Lunch and then return to the mainland. For a cost about $25- $30 for a tour to Cu Lao Cham Island for snorkeling and lunch on the beach, it should be reviewed before making a decision.

2:00 pm back to the land and then move straight to homestay sleep strength.

In the afternoon, 5:00 pm, visitors will go to the Hoai River to drop their flowers on the river

Sitting on the boat at a price about $3 for 2 people, however, you should clearly agree sitting on the river for a while, because the boatman usually row a little and then immediately. At this time you have comments with them, they say you do not understand also, the original Nôm sound is harder than English.

Dinner to eat her rice rice Nga: 8 Phan Chau Trinh: $2 / capacity.

DAY 4 : HAI VAN - LANG CO - SON TRA - HA NOI

Depart from Hai Van pass. Beautiful pass, great views, nice turn around check in sleeves.

To Lang Co beach, I go to rest and lunch lunch. Setting up the shacks on the sea is very beautiful, sitting there the wind, lunch and lunch is great. Seafood here is very cheap and delicious, you can delight choice. Dried squid is also very good, you can bargain down the price you want.

After a rest, start to return to Son Tra Peninsula to visit Linh Ung Pagoda and to the top of the Board.

On the top of the day, the fog was so beautiful. In the afternoon, there is a lot of good food for you to enjoy.

NOTE: If you are hacked in Da Nang, you can call the Market Management Department directly: 0511 382 5467 and the Inspectorate of Danang Department of Culture, Information and Communications: 0511 388 676. Only about 10 minutes you will be supported.                           

>>>>>>>>>Dinner at the hotel, dinner and goodbye Da Nang.

How to visit Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hoàng thành Thăng Long?

 

                    To visit Imperial Citadel of Thang Long you need move to 19C Hoang Dieu, Ba Dinh district, Ha Noi -  the main gate for visitors as well as buying ticket here. 

You can easily go to the place by means of motorcycles, cars, buses ... If you take the bus you can catch line 22A - I used  to move there on Feb 2018. 

              The bus will stop at the entrance of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long. One tip that I think it’s helpful for foreigners using bus in my country is that you can seach and write down on a note in Vietnamese the name of the place you want to arrive then you can get guides from others easily to stop at right bus stop.

          Ticket price and opening time to visit Imperial Citadel of Thang Long:

The Imperial Citadel is open all week (except Monday).

Open time: Morning: 8:00am- 11:30am;

                      Afternoon: 14:00pm- 17:00pm

The entrance fee to visit the area is 30,000 VND / visit

            

 

                 This place is quite quiet, clean, wide and near other popular places as Ho Chi Minh Museum, Temple of Literature…I see that  the main visitors there are foreigners and most of them get tour guiders together. Maybe it’s necessary to a historical place like that. However, that’s not a bad idea for you to discover yourselves, I think so. If you have time in Hanoi, you should drop there one time.

Shopping

                  Shopping here

Banh troi tau - 98 To Hoang, Hai Ba Trung, Ha Noi

If you visit Hanoi on a cold day, don't forget to enjoy a bowl of Bánh trôi tàu at 98, De To Hoang, Hai Ba Trung, Ha Noi (time selling: 15h30-18h). This's only the afternoon vendors but long queues :)

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Here there are both black bread rolls, green beans, more salty meat is very delicious. Succulent cakes, thin, soft smooth, long enough, chan up is the sugar smell fragrant ginger, spicy warm spicy, added fresh coconut, peanuts, sesame black bùi, which makes it hard to refuse.

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The black bean, the hot, the bean, the pearl, long sweet pearl, sweet mouth, bowl full of 15.000 vnd only. Sitting next to the ragged slits, hit two bowls immediately.

Tips about weather for travel in Vietnam

Although Vietnam’s weather belongs to tropical kind, it is divided into two different climate zones. Hai Van Pass is like a fence between these two zones.

The North has two distinct seasons: winter and summer.Winter is from November to March. Meanwhile, the summer is from May to September. Autumn and Spring are not clear.

In the winter Hanoi’s temperature can be down to 10-degree Celsius. You need to prepared clothes in the winter when you are in the North from October to February.

In the winter, even in Sapa, Ha Giang, it snows, areas of the north of central Vietnam are not very cold through the season. Usually, there are some short stages (last about 3days to a week or more – depending on each year) that the weather is very cold in the north entirely.

 Also, it is hard to find oversize clothes in Vietnam, and you need to prepare to protect your skin especially your lips because of hoar frost in the winter.

In the summer, it is hotter in the north than in the south in Vietnam. It likes blazing hot days and makes you sweat out. It has many bloods or rain from East Sea in July and August, but it is not so dangerous that you to delay your trips with beautiful beaches in the whole summer.

 If you have any intention for Ha Long, Sapa, Ha Giang or Hue tours at this period, keep watch on weather broadcast of rains. In many cities, in case it rains, nylon raincoats will be immediately sold with the price of 10.000 dongs for each.

In September, it is the best time to visit Mu Cang Chai, Sapa when level terrace field is full of ripped rice.In October and November - Autumn, many visitors go by motorbikes to Ha Giang ( there has hiring motorbikes service) to take pictures of flowers of  Tam Giac Mach.
You can watch this video.
Flycam 4K - youtube

 Also, this is the best periods for visiting Hanoi. Autumn in Hanoi always makes inspiration for many authors to create literatural and musical works. Yellow leaves fall on the streets, and you will not sweat out, just slightly cold in the late afternoon and at night.

The South of Vietnam, including Da Nang city, has two seasons: dry and rain seasons. The weather here doesn’t change much. Therefore, no need to worry about your travel here. In the rain season – from May to November, there are many times of rain but they don’t last too long. It is usually very hot too, but in general, it is more comfortable than in the north. The dry season from February to April. Temperature is not too high and is not too low.

Da Lat city, especially, has distinct weather compared to the south’s. The weather here is like in Sapa, there are four seasons in a day. It is hot at noons but kind of cold in the afternoons. Therefore, Dalat is considered as the heaven of flowers and here also has many interesting festivals.

Spring. Lunar New Year is the traditional occasion of Vietnamese. It happens at the end of January, and some kinds of foods, flowers, and clothes become more expensive. From October to March, there are many foreigners coming to Vietnam. Hotels will be full, and also traveling destinations have many visitors. Visting Vietnam in the summer will help you to have a more economical budget, but instead, rains may prevent you from going somewhere.

This post uses information of UrTravelAdvisor Vietnam Travel Guide.

Notices for tourists visiting Vietnam

1.    Money

Official unit of money in Vietnam is VND, there are 10 face values: 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10 000, 20 000, 50 000, 100 000, 200 000, 500 000. It is quite similar in color between 20 000 and 500 000, so you need be careful. Also, now many people, stores…( business actions that don’t relate to paperwork) use “K” as a unit of account. “K” is equivalent to “thousand dong”. I don’t know why but maybe it’s more convenient, and this is used mainly by young people. For example: 5k=5000vnd,80 000vnd = 80k, 100 000vnd = 100k, ….

2.    Bus

If you want to use the bus in Vietnam, you should know something about this kind of vehicle. The bus is often very crowding; you should be careful with your properties. Most staffs on the bus can not understand English, you should learn by hard in Vietnamese names of the place which you want to go, and tell them. Also, you can write down or prepare available names in Vietnamese of your destination on paper, phone,.. then get help from staffs on the bus.
The cost of the bus ticket is usually cheap; you should prepare some small face values as 2k, 5k, 10k, 20k.
According to regulations as well as culture, on the bus, everyone should give up the seats for elders, children, and disability.

3.    Shopping

In market or stores chain on streets, most of the sellers are friendly but sometimes when you go into somewhere and watch, try on things without buying anything, they will not be happy even angry or disturb you until you buy their product. This is one of the sadness in Vietnam in the eyes of tourists; we are trying to eliminate this.
Also, the sellers have their taboos, if shopping early in the morning, visitors should avoid bargaining or see without buying. When you want to buy something you should ask the price before deciding to buy.

4.    Crossing the streets

Traffic in big cities in Vietnam is quite complex and the main vehicle moving on the road is motorbikes, so, crossing the street is also a problem with tourists. Beside streets that have enough and convenient crosswalks, many aren't. And crossing streets without the crosswalk is a habit in Vietnam. If you have never done this, you will feel that it is very difficult and dangerous even you will not dare. I was in that situation at the first time in Hanoi, but now I do this every day. ^.^
So to do this you need stare at people who are moving toward you, walk steadily. The motorbikers will avoid you, but you also must be flexible in moving, the big cars and bus don’t stop to concede you.You also can get help from native people to cross the roads. If you wait for no vehicle on the street to cross, you will have to stand there all day.

5.  

  If you visit Hoàn Kiếm lake in Hanoi city, you may meet many native people want to get into a conversation with you. They are English learners and students like me; they just want to have opportunities to train English skill. Some tourists are not pleased because they don’t want to be disturbed or because of “the English of the native” here. But I think you should talk to them; they are very friendly and enthusiastic. Through these English learners you can get some more useful information, make friends or even get a free tour guide for your trips around Hanoi.

Wish you have a happy trip!