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Ba Na Hills - Old French village , Golden Bridge , Sunworld Amusement Park

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Day 2 in Da Nang, Vietnam Ba Na Hills (My mountain) - Old French colony , Golden Bridge , Sunworld Amusement Park (Resort and recreational complex) - Completely Touristy Destination  Ba na Hill Official Website  here is the link of the official website, where in you can get information about the destination, charges, timings etc. It has cable car, hill station, The World famous Golden bridge - architectural wonder, Old French village, amusement park, Buddha Statue, Flower park, and resort. So in all it is a combination of Nature, architecture, culture, spirituality and cuisine.  Ba na Hills - Entrance was approximately 40km - 1.5 hrs away from the Hotel Eden Ocean View, where we stayed. We checked out from the hotel around 8am after breakfast, loaded the luggage in the luggage cabin of bus, as we had a domestic flight to catch in the evening from Da Nang Airport to Hanoi- Capital of Vietnam.  There is an attractive lobby at the foot of the hills... From here, we have...

Da Nang -“Mouth/ opening of the river” - Sea Food Paradise..

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Da Nang - Day 1 in Vietnam  Da nang Airport We boarded Vietjet flight from Ahmedabad to Da Nang on 24th Dec 2022 at 10pm. We arrived at Da nang International airport early in the morning approximately at  5am. Vietname is 1.5 hrs ahead of India. Arrival area was crowded as two flights from India arrived almost same time, one from Ahmedabad and other from Delhi. There were long queqes for immigration check.  Immigration -  A valid passport with E-visa were the two important documents to show and get passport stamped. It took almost 45minutes to get our turn. Entry port must be same as mentioned in the E-Visa or else it can be troublesome.  Baggage - After immigration check, we went ahead towards, baggage claim, Free trolleys can be easily found nearby the baggage carousels. There was no display of the belt on which the baggage will be delivered, but luckily only one belt was running and we could find our baggage in no time.  Customs -  After collecting ...

Vietnam - Our Plan of travel

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 As said previously, we had booked our to and fro flights through Vietjet as  Ahmedabad - Da nang (Central Vietnam) Da nang - Hanoi (Internal Domestic flight) Hanoi (North Vietnam) - Ahmedabad After going through lots of negative reviews about Vietjet, we kept our fingers crossed. We had heard about  a lot  of  flights   cancellation from multiple locations in India by Vietjet, so we decided to keep mum about our teavel plan. And we were sure to go from Pune to Ahmedabad as it was Indigo flight which we were pretty sure of. We kept a road trip from Ahmedabad for a week as plan B 😀.  Or just in case Vietjet cancels flight from Ahmedabad, they'll give the credit note or adjust the passangers in another location flights So we even thought of that option as well as a plan C.   Full to Filmy Though 😁😄 But lucky we were like said above , the Chirstmas holiday season is high season, the flight was fully booked with on time departure and before ti...