A Carnival Festival will take place at Da Nang’s Ba Na Hills Resort from 29 January to 15 February to celebrate Tet for domestic and foreign tourists.

Nature reserve: Flower on the Ba Na Mountain. VNS Photo Công Thành

There will be tours on the 3^rd day of Tet to the temple complex named ‘Ba Chua Thuong Ngan’ (Goddess of the Forest), Linh Ung Pagoda, the 9-storey Linh Phong tower and a 4-tonne bronze bell tower on top of the 1,471m high mountain.  Going to the pagoda during the 1^st days of Tet is a local tradition.

Colours galore: Bell-shaped peach blossoms on the mountain during Tet. VNS Photo

The resort, a former French hill station, is located in the Truong Son Mountains on the western side of the city. 

The surrounding 17,641ha of primary forest are part of a nature reserve with 6 trekking routes.

Tet tradition: Tourists visit a pagoda on the top of the mountain. VNS Photo Công Thành

During Tet, flowers like the bell-shaped peach blossoms and the year-round hydrangeas cover the mountain.

In 2014, the resort introduced a new cable car route - its third - which has earned 4 Guinness World records for being the longest one-line cable car service in the world - 5,771.61m.  It has the highest difference in height between the departure and destination points - 1,368.93m. It has the longest cable - 11,585m and the world’s heaviest cable rolls of 141.24 tonnes.

Guinness record: A cable car system carries tourists to the top of the mountain on the 1,471m above sea level. VNS Photo

The cable carries visitors to the top of the mountain in 17 minutes.

More than 30,000 tourists visit the resort during Tet annually.

Serenity: Dawn on the mountain above the city. VNS Photo

The resort features 400 beautiful cherry trees – a gift of the Japan-Da Nang Friendship Association - since 2010.

(Source: VNS/Da Nang Today)