Attractive Son Tra

From Danang City, looking at to the northeast, Son Tra peninsula appears in the white clouds in the sky. Tourists are interested in the forest discovering tour due to Son Tra’s majestic mountains, romantic combination of mountains and clouds and wild nature.

Thuan Phuoc Bridge across the Strait of Danang beach, where the river meets the sea, connects the active city life with peaceful Son Tra peninsula. The infinitely stretching green primeval forests combined with the turquoise water of East Sea are now in the city, which cools the busy and noisy life of a young city down. Son Tra Peninsula, as a princess awoken after a long sleep through centuries, is really magnificent. Come to Son Tra, tourists will admire its beautiful scene with high mountains having floating clouds, myrtle hills along the two paths and the lively overview of the city.

From the center of the city, it takes us 10 minutes to reach the peninsula by motorbike along the road running halfway up the mountain slope. The city noise is replaced with the peaceful space with cool breezes, bird songs and murmuring sounds of streams, all of which create a love song of the jungle. The higher the mountains are, the fresher and cooler the air is.

Our first stop is the 29 radar station of Vietnam Air Defence Air Force. The station, 621 meters above sea level, was built by The United States in 1965 and is considered Indochina god eyes. We believe that we have conquered Son Tra only when standing at the station in stead of seeing the little white balls on the top of the hill from the city. A beautiful city appears in front of us with ocean, Han River, streets and high buildings.

Then we leave for 621 sub-zone and have a walk to discover Son Tra old jungle. We enjoy a variety of colorful wild mushrooms and the mountainous crabs with strange colors creeping gently along the sand stream. The sand stream is a flow of yellow sand along the track and it doesn’t include any other impurities while the surround is soil, rock and dead leaves. Going to the inside of the jungle, there is the more abundant vegetation with purple flowers of the vines around the big rocks and many big tall trees lining continuously.

We continue to climb up to the higher tops of Son Tra. The curved road among the jungle leads to many hills in a continuous line. In the higher positions, the clouds are denser, which embrace the people. It is strange that the clouds come quickly but go quickly too. In few minutes, the sky is very clear. We go on a road with a lot of myrtle trees which are in their season of fruit. Monkeys, gophers and minks sit under the sun, which makes the scenery more lively.  After reaching the 650 meter high top of Chess Top, we start going down slope. There, we can see the immense ocean of which one side is Bac Beach (North Beach) with flat plain of yellow sand and the other side is Nam Beach (South Beach) with blue sea as a great steppe. The big road is the border of great ocean and high mountain, which connects the eastern slope and the western one to make Son Tra closer in the journey back to the nature