Ba Na Hills

Ba Na Hills is a resort park on the crest of a mountain ridge about thirty kilometres west of Da Nang. The French set up a rest station here back in 1919 to escape the heat of the coast, but after the war the settlement was abandoned and only its foundations were left. In 2009 a cable car was run up the mountain, and on the site of the old station a French village was then built, with a town hall, a cathedral, a square and cobbled streets. Beside it lies a Buddhist section with the many-tiered Linh Phong tower, a statue of the Buddha and gardens of hydrangeas. At a height of about a kilometre and a half the weather is a law unto itself, and clouds often pass straight across the square.

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