Ngu Hanh Son 2023 travel guide pocket for tourists

Ngu Hanh Son 2023 travel guide pocket for tourists. Marble Mountains is one of the attractions that attracts tourists in Da Nang with many caves and splendid natural scenery. Let’s “carry” the Ngu Hanh Son travel guide with Tourion to have interesting tours!

Located on the route Da Nang – Hoi An, Ngu Hanh Son is a complex of 5 limestone mountains jutting out on the coastal sand: Kim Son, Moc Son, Thuy Son, Hoa Son and Tho Son, Ngu Hanh Son. Ngu Hanh Son Mountain has a majestic landscape with ancient mossy rocks and many unique cultural and historical architectural works.

The ideal time to visit Ngu Hanh Son

With fresh, cool weather and beautiful scenery in 4 seasons, Ngu Hanh Son is one of the attractive Da Nang tourist destinations that you can visit at any time of the year. If traveling in the summer, in addition to Marble Mountains, you can also combine vacations at the beaches in the area.

How to get to Ngu Hanh Son?

The distance from Da Nang city center to Ngu Hanh Son is only about 7km, so you can choose to travel by motorbike, bus or taxi.

Motorbike:  You can follow 2 roads to get to Marble Mountains: Vo Nguyen Giap – Truong Sa – Non Nuoc or Le Van Hien – Non Nuoc. Travel time by motorbike is about 15 minutes.

Bus:  You can choose route 1 from Da Nang to Hoi An, departing from Da Nang City Center Bus Station and getting off at Ngu Hanh Son point. The time between buses is 20 minutes.
Taxi:  Some of the taxi shops in Da Nang are Song Han Taxi, Mai Linh Taxi, Huong Lua Taxi.

Beautiful scenery of Ngu Hanh Son mountain

Thuy Son

Thuy Son is also known as Tam Thai mountain because there are 3 peaks located on three floors like the three Tam Thai stars. Among the 5 mountains, Thuy Son is the most beautiful and largest mountain chosen by many tourists to visit and explore. To reach the top of the mountain, you can choose to climb more than a hundred steps or choose to take the elevator with a transparent glass chamber for a two-way ticket of 30,000 VND.

Coming here, you can not only admire the beautiful panorama of Da Nang city from above, but also visit many beautiful temples and caves.

Linh Ung Pagoda

Having come to Ngu Hanh Son, it is impossible to ignore Linh Ung pagoda on Thuy Son mountain. Placed in a solemn position in the middle of the pagoda is a 10m high statue of Shakyamuni Buddha with two sides worshiping Quan The Am Bodhisattva and Bodhisattva Di Tang. This place not only attracts many tourists who love spiritual tourism, but also is a place where you can immerse yourself in the peaceful place where Buddha’s door is and away from the noisy city.

Tam Thai Temple

Tam Thai Pagoda is also a large temple that many tourists choose to visit. The temple has 3 gates and according to Buddhist culture, the main gate is reserved for monks and nuns to go, the remaining gate on the right is for women to pass, on the left is for men to pass. Over time and war, the pagoda has been repaired many times but still retains many ancient Buddhist architectural features.

Huyen Khong Cave

Huyen Khong Cave owns the most beautiful scenery among the caves in Ngu Hanh Son. The cave is exposed and has a very unique and impressive structure with circular arches leading to the outside, so it is always full of light. Not only come to visit, guests come here often immerse themselves in the sacred space to feel calm and relaxed.

Underworld Cave

Am Phu Cave is one of the largest caves in the Marble Mountains. It is a natural cave with mysterious murky features and has many nooks and crannies deep underground as if going to the gates of hell to the underworld. Therefore, the people here have long recreated many punishments in the underworld in the cave with the purpose of changing the mentality and directing people to a better life.

In addition, you will be able to visit the complex of other mysterious caves in Ngu Hanh Son: Linh Nha cave, Lang Hu cave, Van Nguyet cave, …

Kim Son

Kim Son top is shaped like an upside down bell and is on the bank of Co Co river. So, if you have the opportunity to take a boat on the river, you will admire the shadow of the mountains and the calm and calm water. Leaning back on Kim Son mountain is the ancient Quan The Am pagoda and the extremely mysterious Quan Am cave.

Moc Son

Lying parallel to Thuy Son mountain is Moc Son mountain. Although it has the name “carpentry”, there are few trees here. On Moc Son mountain, there is no pagoda but only a block of white marble often called Ba Ba Quan Am or Co Mu by locals.

Hoa Son

Opposite Thuy Son mountain is Hoa Son mountain consisting of 2 double mountains and a connecting stone line. In the top of Duong Hoa Son, there are caves and Pho Son Da pagoda, while the top of Am Hoa Son owns a high mountain peak and steep rocky slopes with alternating trees, looking extremely majestic and pristine.

Tho Son

Tho Son mountain is also known by a rustic name “Da Chong mountain”. Tho Son is a low and earthy mountain, but it is the longest of the 5 Ngu Hanh Son mountains. In Tho Son, there is a cave deep in the mountain called Bo De cave (also known as Toad cave) with a narrow niche, and was a shelter for local people during the resistance wars against the French and Americans.