After picking you up from your hotel, our Jeep driver will drive along coastal road passing towns, villages, and beaches, with numerous stops on the way, to enjoy breath-taking scenery and experience the local life. It will be a Fun Drive between Danang and Hue.
The most fantastic place to take photos is at the top of Hai Van Pass where you will have chance to pass through the clouds and enjoy the adventure with sudden curves challenging the drivers’ skills. Hai Van Pass is one of the most scenic hillside roads in Vietnam. When braving the steep winding roads of a paved mountain pass, you will have a chance to discover peace, quiet and history along the way…
Hai Van Pass was known as the Thuan Hoa and Quang Nam frontier.
In the early 14th century (1306), Che Man, a king from Cham Pa, offered two mountainous administrative units of O and Ri as engagement gifts to Princess Huyen Tran, daughter of King Tran Nhan Tong. Since then, Hai Van Pass has acted as the physical boundary between Dai Viet and Cham Pa. Until now, on top of the pass, you can still see the ancient grand gate which used to be one of the border crossings between two kingdoms. During the Vietnamese-American War, people called Hai Van Pass the ‘Street Without Joy’ since it connected Hue and Da Nang the most significantly war-ravaged cities at the time.
On the north- south nation highway, Hai Van Pass is an impressive landscape. It is like a giant dragon, lying on Highway 1 on the border between Thua Thien-Hue Province and Danang City. This is the highest pass in Vietnam (500m above sea level). This rugged pass is the final section of the Truong Son Range stretching to the sea. Hai Van means “Sea Clouds”, since the peak of the mountain is in the clouds while its foot is close to the sea. In the past, Hai Van Pass was known as the Thuan Hoa and Quang Nam frontier.
The next visit to The Ghost City An Bang where you will see the one and only place in the world that the dead stays at the better place than the livings.
Covering an area of 250 hectares, the cemetery behind the fishing village of An Bang holds an incredible collection of incredibly ornate tombs and memorials, some costing hundreds of thousands of US dollars to construct. The buildings incorporate both Buddhist and Christian iconography, some of which are modelled after the royal tombs of the emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty. Notice the detailed mosaics made from broken pottery that adorn many of the facades.
You may have lunch at a local restaurant by the sea or a picnic lunch with great view. The trip ends back at your place!
