Hue City Tour From Da Nang- Hue Day Trip From Danang
Description
The best itinerary to visit all highlights in Hue and on the way to Hue. Enjoy the specialties of Hue as lunch. Understand and have deep information about the Nguyen dynasty. Experience the local life in Hue imperial city. Great tour to understand the lives of Emperor, Concubines, and eunuchs. Get the scary secret of the second emperor in his royal tomb. Visit the most beautiful and expensive royal tomb in the world. You will say twice WOW WOW.
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Itinerary
At 7 am, Our driver will pick you up at your hotel in Da Nang city. We start the Hue City Tour from Da Nang. On the way to Hue, our driver will stop by at Hai Van pass (Ocean and Clouds Pass). Hai Van pass is famous as the most beautiful pass, the Topgear in Vietnam. On top of the pass, you will see there is a brick gate. It was the border gate between 2 countries. Dai Nam in the North of the pass and Champa Kingdom in the South.
The next place is the Lang Co beach. Lang Co beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Our driver will stop at the pass's foot so you can have a panoramic view to take wonderful photos of the Lang Co Bay.
In addition, we will stop at Lap An lagoon with nice views of the Brackishwater lagoon, the place where local fishermen plant oysters. There is a cafeteria there with a lagoon view and you also can taste the best Vietnamese coffee.
Around 10:30 am, we reach to Hue imperial city. We will pick up our tour guide to do the Hue City tour from Da Nang. We will take a dragon boat to go along the Perfume River to visit Thien Mu pagoda. As you know, Thien Mu is the oldest pagoda in central Vietnam from 1601. There are many stories and myths about this holy place and our guide will tell you in detail.
After that, we will take the private car to visit the Citadel, Royal city, and Forbidden city. Hue was the capital city of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam from 1802- 1945. Our guide will tell you some valuable information about the royal lives of Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs. It is a complex including 3 sections: The citadel (Protecting area); Royal city (The working area of Emperor, and civil servants and Military servants); The Forbidden City (The private area of the emperor, his concubines, and eunuchs). Hue was the politic center of the Nguyen dynasty Vietnam so foods in Hue are the best in Vietnam. So will we have a lovely lunch at a local food restaurant around 12:30 pm.
After lunch, we keep doing the Hue City Tour from Da Nang. As you know, all the emperors of the Nguyen dynasty thought that this life is just a temporary life. When you died, you would live a real life. So what you need in this life, you would need them in the after-life. So the first thing they did when they first came to the throne is to order the Fengshui tellers to find the perfect Fengshui places to build the tombs. Please remember it, everything inside the tombs has never been used in the past, only for their after-life. The first place is the Royal tomb of the Minh Mang emperor, the second emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. So His royal tomb is on the mountains and face to the head of the Perfume River. Our tour guide will tell you the fabulous emperor's biography and a scary secret inside his beautiful royal tomb.
After that, we will visit the most beautiful and expensive royal tomb of the 12th emperor, the Khai Dinh Tomb. Not following the traditional architecture, Khai Dinh Tomb is the mixture among Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, French, and Vietnamese architecture. You will say twice WOW, WOW because it is such a fabulous tomb and the most beautiful tomb in over the world. All of the materials to build his tomb from other countries such as Ciments from France; Color glasses, porcelain, ceramics from China and Japan. It is the top of the art of inlaid for decoration. At the Khai Dinh tomb, you can take some great photos and practice photography skills. Finish the Hue City Tour from Da Nang, we will drive you safely back to your hotel in Da Nang city. Tour ends
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We will pick you up at your hotels in Da Nang city center. In other hotels out of the Da Nang city center, you have to pay an extra fee.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(34)
Weather was hot, bring water. You should have an interest for old historie grounds or it may become boring.
Thank you so much for your nice words about our tour guide and service. We always try our best to serve our lovely customers. Something about the weather and personal interest we really can not control and manage. Your 3 star review is not proper with what we served you and our service quality, and what we can not control, such as weather and personal interest. We respect your point of view, and we wish you all the best
I cannot recommend this trip enough. I ended up being by myself as my husband was ill and the team, Ms Van and the driver looked after me really well and ensured I had a brilliant day. It was very informative around the historic areas and lots of time for photos. Lunch was very authentic in a lovely local restaurant. The boat tour on the perfume river was enjoyable, as was learning about the pagoda. The Hai Van Pass is also very scenic.
Deducted a star for the tourist trap stop along Hai Van Pass with the pearl jewelry shops. I speak Vietnamese and told them I wasn’t going to buy anything (not my style of jewelry), plus my husband and mother in law already bought 3 items at that very store—yet they still kept bugging me the whole time to “just buy one thing.” I got super annoyed and had to leave the shop and asked our driver to leave asap. We also had a stop at an incense shop, which was not pushy at all and very sweet for showing us how they make the incense sticks. Other than that, the Hue tour with Lily was absolutely fabulous!! Lily was a wealth of information at each stop and also during the drive to each site pointing things out. I found the details (both the good and the bad) about the emperor and his sons fascinating. Lily also spoke very clear English and was so sweet, sharing snippets about her family and sharing photos of our dogs. She is the epitome of a true tour-guide, I learned so much that day! Highly recommend this tour, just don’t go into the jewelry shops along Hai Van Pass.
Our driver was great! Safe and took care driving. Our guide was also excellent. She was knowledgeable, had great English skills and answered all our questions. She let us go at our pace which happens to be quicker than the average. I would have no hesitation to recommend this day trip.
Good experience. Beautiful place to visit. We have to cut short our visit because of our appointment in Danang. Our guide Tony see to it that we visit the best point of interest in the area. Our drive from Danang to Hue was great too because our driver gave us good information of the places we pass along the way.
Loved this tour! Debated doing it as it’s a ways from where we are staying in Da Nang, but so glad we did. The drive there is gorgeous and included a couple of great stops. “Ha” was our tour guide and she was amazing. Her English is great and she understood and answered all of our questions. There’s so much history and interesting facts to learn and she made it fun. Lunch was delicious and Ha explained how to eat some of the food that was new to us.
This was a very enjoyable and comprehensive day trip. The car was very comfortable and air-conditioned. Our driver Mr. Phuoc was very accommodating, and I would highly recommend him.
I booked this private tour from Danang and I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to book a day trip to Hue. The pick up and drop off from the hotel was very confident. Our driver Mr. Hao was very friendly, accommodating and a great driver. The drive from Danang to Hue was over two hours but he explained many things during the drive and ensure we were comfortable. Our tour guide we met at Hue, whose name was Fi, was also great and she was very knowledgeable about the rich history of Hue. I learned so much about the history of Hue and the last dynasty of Vietnam. Since this was a private tour, we could really enjoy the tour at our own pace and having the designated driver was also very convenient. If you want to explore Hue while staying Danang, I would definitely recommend this tour!
The day was perfectly calibrated. Departure from the hotel with Mr Hai who drove masterfully all the way with smile and kindness. The stops were well thought out, the visits perfectly commented by Mrs Nhi smiling and fine connoisseur of her subject. The scenery, the sights, the timing, everything was perfect! And, lunch included in the day at a small local restaurant was again a treat! In short, we recommend! Thank you again for a wonderful day in Hue!
Informative, knowledgeable and friendly tour guide. She had all our stops well organized and made sure we were comfortable.
