The Marble Mountains Da Nang

4th to 5th September Hue

4th of September

We travelled from Hoi an to Hue on a mini bus which took about 3 hours. We travelled through Danang where there is a lot of building work going on, mainly large luxury hotels. The first stop was at the Marble Mountains. There are five mountains in total which have pagodas and temples on …

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We left our hotel at 8:30 this morning, for a full day of touring. Today, we started with some sights in Hue City.

Our first stop was King Tu Duc Tomb, this is a huge area, built to bury one emperor, I could not believe how big it was. This particular one, looks like a small village, spanning across 14 acres, that is a lot …

25/04/2011 Hoian/ Vietnam

So we arrived about 10am and managed to find a hostel with a pool for under $10 a night, was quite a nice place bit out of town though so we walked into town with Sam & Elle and found a restaurant for some lunch then we hired two mopeds for $2 Elle smashed into the back of a local after 10meters on the bike. …

We travelled down to Hoi An in a car organised by the Orchid Hotel in Hue. We shared it with a couple from Singapore we had met in the hotel. The journey was a pleasure after our 12hr DMZ experience and we stopped at Lang Co beach and the Hai Van pass on route for some photos. We drove through Danang which is a western style resort. We had …

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Today we woke up at around 7:30 AM, and left at around 8:30 AM for a full day tour. Our first stop was the King Tu Duc Tomb, a tomb of a King. One of us could believe how big it was. They took 14 acres of land just to bury 1 emperor. In my honest opinion, I think that is way too much land for 1 person. Land is a big necessity in …

3 February 2005 (Thursday)
It was not entirely a comfortable journey on the long-distance train from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang. The "soft" seat could not ease the pain on our butts after long hours of sitting and sleeping up straight. The coldness in the air-conditioned compartment during the night kept waking me up and the small blanket (or …

Ja, da har vi ankommet den lille landsbyen (som ikke var så liten som vi trodde;-) som vil være vårt hjem de neste 2-3 mnd. Planen er å bo på hotell i et par uker, bli litt kjent, knytte kontakter, finne en leilighet eller hus og ha littebitt ferie.

Hotellet vårt er jo ikke helt som på bilde for å si det sånn (bildene på nettet må være …

De mørke trappene opp til leiligheten virker uendelig lange, forventningen øker for hvert steg vi nærmer oss døra. Døra åpnes, lysbryteren flippes... VRÆÆL! Fremfor oss, en kakerlakk på størrelse med en knyttet hånd stirrer oss inn i hvitøyet.

Vi er fortsatt traumatiserte! Vårt første møte med den nye leiligheten var kanskje ikke det beste …

Vi stod af bussen i Hoi An lige da det var ved at blive moerkt, og fandt et sted at bo lige i naerheden. Det var et vaerelse i stueplan lige bag receptionen, men det var et stille sted saa vi var ikke saa bekymrede for larmen fra lobbyen. Det centrale Vietnam har regntid, og det regnede da ogsaa en del, hvorfor vi fandt noget aftensmad lige overfor …

I've found my new favourite place! If ever there was a place that your parents would love, this is it. All the usual sales bombardment when we stepped off the bus at 7am - "you need taxi? come stay at my hotel, very cheap, good price", "No ta I have a reservation", "Oh your hotel very expensive, come and stay here.....". A bit of simple swinging …

... - it was a quarter of the price of the motorbike ride, we would have cycled but there was nowhere to hire bicycles. The marble mountains sit in a landscape of sand and are (unsurprisingly) small mountains made of marble, around the base of the biggest ...

... ! 14/03/2009 Fully refreshed we got up, walked along the river and sorted a car to take us to the Marble Mountains. These consist of five marble outcrops that were once islands. Buddhist sanctuaries and temples are sheltered in natural caves. There ...

... call the guide up and ask to be dropped off there. He then explained that the book is wrong but he can drop us at the Marble Mountains - where he is scheduled to stop anyhow - and he'll recommend somewhere for us to stay as well. So we thought "here we ...

... of the most stunning in the country as is the bike ride from Hoi An to Danang, all along the coast road passing the marble mountains and China Beach en route.  Unfortunately, when I woke up this morning it was raining.  Not torrential, tropical ...

... one had only 3 other passengers, all of which were also Australian, and did not include a mandatory stop at the Marble Mountains. Back in Da Nang we satisfied our hunger, having not eaten since breakfast, with another visit to the rooftop bar for some ...

... problems for me at once -- his bike had a luggage rack in back to store my backpack -- and it allowed me to see the Marble Mountains too (which I'd wanted to visit anyway, but couldn't work into my schedule). On the way to the museum, we passed by an ...

... to Hoi An for 350000d and came via the coast road. This bought me past the swanky five star resorts at China beach and the Marble mountains. They do not mine the marble here anymore, they import it from China. There are lots of carvers in the area and ...

... ride or, depending on the crazies you encounter on the road, an act of faith in mankind. Hoa's is walking distance to the Marble Mountains that are made of five distinct peaks.  When it wasn't raining, we hiked up to a massive pagoda that sits on ...

... have to stay there overnight and just do a day tour to see the nearby sights of China Beach, Son Tra Peninsula and the Marble mountains. Approached by a motorbike driver instantly from the point of leaving the station, I took him up on a city tour before ...

... of the area as he kept on mentioning the different sites and asking if we‘d visited them. Having shown us the marble mountains, the Da Nang football stadium, a war memorial and various other pertinent monuments, we realised in the end that he just ...