Ba Na, Chua Mountain, Mo Stream

Located in Hoa Vang province, apart from Danang 40 kilometers to southwest, Ba Na – Mount Chua is 1,487 meters high over the sea level. Average temperature is from 17 to 20 degree Celsius.

In Ba Na, there are four seasons in a day: spring in the morning, summer at noon, autumn in the afternoon, winter in the evening. For light rains, it is not as wet as in Da Lat. Although it rains around the mountain, the top is dry; furthermore, it is cloudless, and fresh. Compared with Tam Dao, Da Lat, the territory has a precedence of panoramic view. From the top of the mountain, one can have a vast view of sea, Danang city, rice fields spreading to the horizon.

While months from May to August are the hottest period (up to 32oC) in seaside Central Viet Nam, temperature at the territory fluctuates from 17 to 20 degree Celsius, 22-25oC in maximum. It drops down to 15oC at night. With temperate climate, murmuring rivers, fluttering trees, Ba Na is as attractive as Tam Dao, Da Lat, etc. The Ba Na natural reservation zone has 544 sorts of high-level flora, 256 types of animals, in which there are 6 flora and 44 fauna of being precious recorded in Vietnamese Redbook.

One seems to be lost in clouds and smoke. For different factors and reasons, people have different judgments on Ba Na but all think that it is Ba Na that is the best place for relaxing.

With its wonderful advantages, French chose the territory as a relaxing resort and constructed hundreds of castles, villas, pleasure house and buildings here. Though natural calamities and enemy inflicted destruction for half of century sweep some traces of these ancient houses and buildings, there remains generosity of nature: primitive forests, temperate and fresh climate, fluttering sounds of pine hills mixed with songs murmured by rivers flowing over granites and then smoothly towards the forest.

Some villas currently restored and upgraded with modern equipments are available. Especially comfortable telepheric system drives tourists from Vong Nguyet post, soaking in clouds, bypassing the beneath primitive forest to the center of Ba Na tourist site.

Ba Na – a romantic site thanks to the beauty of nature embellished by human hands. Looking down to Danang from the top of Ba Na, one seems to have the feelings that one is living in a different life with different emotions and different happiness. Feelings one can never gain from life in noisy urban areas.

In connection with Ba Na – Mount Chua, Mo River is a famous tourist site. In direction of southwest about 27 kilometers from Danang, in Hoa Vang district, the site is most occupied in summer. There is Toc Tien Fall (Fairy’s Hair Fall) with 9 levels. The fall is called Toc Tien because looking up from the fall foot, it looks like a fairy’s beautiful hair.