10 January 2020

Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge

We were picked up by a bus at 8 am and taken to the Ba Na Hills and Golden Bridge. It's a tourist trap, we can confirm that now. There are some nice things about the place, for example to get to the top you take a nice cable car for 20 minutes. There are nice views. At the top the air is very fresh (break from the fumes almost everywhere in Vietnam). There are three very nice temples. The Golden Bridge is nice as well but it's short, on the pictures it looks much longer. The rest was just horrible: full of people taking selfies (it gets even more crowded in summer), dressed up Korean "princesses" taking selfies, overpriced drinks and food, a "French village" that is supposed to look like France, horrible loud music. Kitsch everywhere. Brrrr... The Asian tourists seem to love it. It was definitely an experience although not necessarily positive, and I don't regret going there because now I know what kind of place it is (and it's not worth 850,000 VND per person so £28 including transport).

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