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From Da Nang the Flat Friends ventured almost an hour away from the port to Bà Nà Hills where a company called SunWorld has set up a resort and amusement park. We had a very limited time in port, just over 5 hours, which gave us less than three hours at Bà Nà Hills, but we made the most of it!
Our goal was to see the Golden Bridge. We caught our first glimpse from the cable cars that flew us up the mountain. Two giant hands hold a golden band up in offering to the sky, out over the valley, a thread hundreds of people walk across each day.
We were just another two visitors among the many who came to see this piece of art that’s an actual functioning pedestrian bridge!
Express ticket in hand, we were able to go around the long line and immediately board a cable car for the 17 minute ride to the top of the mountain.
When the French first created a hotel at Ba Na Hills, they got there on a windy mountain road—it was a one hour drive!
Flying up the mountain on one of the several different cable car routes meant we had time to visit more than just the Golden Bridge. We saw sculptures, flowers, and more!
The Flat Friends took a moment to visit the giant sitting Buddha on top of the mountain, near the flower garden. We spent the lion’s share (most) of our time in one section of Ba Na Hills, seeing the Golden Bridge, the Garden and Buddha.
We were extremely grateful the French Village was a quick two-minute cable car ride away.
We were whisked over the valley to a neighboring hillside, where castles and turrets (towers) are at home on streets that look and feel decades older than they truly are.
From the Golden Bridge, we not only looked down on the valley below, we looked down on clouds!
Our last cable car ride of this adventure was another 17 minutes back down from the top of this almost 5,000 foot tall mountain. (The tallest building in the world, in Dubai, is half that tall!)
Our cable car had openings letting the breeze rush in to cool us off after walking around in the heat — and we could hear the waterfalls beneath us before we could see them!
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