What is Da Nang, Vietnam like?

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l d

Try something different. When you are walking around, keep your eyes open. When you see a girl or group of girls about your age who are just walking and chatting, go up to them and ask them if they speak English (they most likely will). When they say yes, ask them a few questions, and ask them about how people do things in Da Nang, and in Viet Nam.

I spent 4 great years in Viet Nam, and I always found people happy to talk. So, start asking the people around you!

Dess

Da Nang harbours is an unexpectedly amiable place and a major transport hub with air connections as well as road and rail links.

In the American War it served as a massive South Vietnamese airbase and played host to thousands of US troops as well as refugees searching for work.

French presence which is more apparent in the leafy boulevards and colonial-style houses. Note that at the time of writing, Da Nang was in the process of changing its street numbers, which has led to a potentially confusing situation of both old and new numbers being used; wherever possible, new street numbers have been quoted.

Two blocks south of Cho Han market, past the soft, salmon-pink cathedral, colonial Da Nang is represented by a few wooden and stucco houses at the eastern end of Tran Quoc Toan. From here turn right along the river for 750m to reach the Cham Museum, at the south end of Bach Dang (daily 7amâ€“5.30pm; $1.30), the most comprehensive display of Cham art in the world. Its display of graceful, sometimes severe, terracotta and sandstone figures gives a tantalizing glimpse of an artistically inspired culture that ruled most of southern Vietnam for a thousand years. Exhibits are grouped according to their place of origin: My Son (4â€“11C), Tra Kieu (Simhapura; 4â€“10C), Dong Duong (Indrapura; 8â€“10C), and Binh Dinh (11â€“15C).

Da Nang's Cao Dai Temple, on Hai Phong opposite the hospital, was built in 1956 and is Vietnam's second most important after Tay Ninh. An elderly archbishop, assisted by seventeen priests, ministers to a congregation here said to number 50,000. The temple is a smaller, simpler version of Tay Ninh, dominated inside by the all-seeing eye of the Supreme Being and paintings of Cao Dai's principal saints, Lao-tzu, Confucius, Jesus Christ and Buddha. Adherents gather to worship four times a day (6am, noon, 6pm & midnight).

Traveler

Get out of Danang immediately. Go hang out at Hua's at china beach or go into Hoi An. Much nicer people and a lot more fun. the beach is wonderful in the area and Hoi an is a world heritage Old Towne that is absolutely beautiful. Take that first step and you will have a lot more fun!

SkyKing

if u in Da Nang right now, then u should get ur *** out and look for it....don't waste ur time in here

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