Is Danang worth visiting? Marble Mountain, Dragon Bridge, rooftop bars, beaches & My Son ruins

Hi, we're Jordana and Grant from Shot in the Dark Travel. Come join us on our epic adventures around Southeast Asia. Get ready for an incredible adventure in Da Nang, Vietnam. Join us as we explore the awe-inspiring Marble Mountains, delve into the ancient ruins of My Son, soak up the sun on Da Nang's famous beaches and enjoy the city's vibrant nightlife including breathtaking rooftop bar views. So we've just got to Marble Mountains and we've decided to do the steps. It's midday so it's very hot. So it's going to be interesting on how we cope with these stairs right now. Yeah, there's an elevator option that almost everyone seems to be getting and then there's the stairs you can walk up and I thought it can't be too bad but I'm out of breath and a bit hot just walking to the entrance to the stairs because it's on the other side so God knows how I'm going to get on with the actual stairs. But it should be good. This is one of the main tourist attractions in Da Nang so yeah, should be really nice. God, these are big steps. I've only just started and I'm knackered. I don't think many people get the stairs up. I think people get the elevator to the top and then get the stairs down. So we've just set off and pretty much the first person we met coming down was like oh you're brave going up the stairs which doesn't fill me with lots of confidence for how big it's going to be. Not what you want to hear at the start of going up the stairs. Walking off those two for one glasses of wine. We've made it. To be fair, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It wasn't a huge set of stairs. It's just it's so hot and it's steep but it's not it's not a disaster. I'm glad we did it. It wasn't very far at all but yeah. I think it just shows how unfit we are at the moment because it wasn't hard at all but we're still very out of breath. Anyway let's go look around Malvern Mountain. It's so weird that you can see like little mountain peaks like just in the middle of everything. It's like a pure big city of houses and shops and restaurants and then you've just got these weird little mountain peaks. It's so strange. Nice little view from up here isn't it? Lovely. As well as there being pagodas and lookout points and loads of shouting tourists for some reason there are some really cool caves as well. We just got to the first one. Gonna go inside and check it out. Have you enjoyed your rock climbing love? I'm too hungover for this and it's so hot. Wear sensible shoes, not flip-flops. This is not a flip-flop trail. We have made it to the top. We've gone through the caves and the views are amazing. Well worth the treacherous climb up. At the entrance to the elevator there are loads of people selling things and like doing the hard sell and you're just trying to walk through them all and it's like do you want a coconut? Do you want some water? Do you want a drink? We've got ice cream and it's like oh my god. Do you want souvenirs? Do you want sunglasses? And I was just like ignoring them all because I was a bit sick of it and a bit like it's a bit frustrating when you're just trying to get somewhere and they're all like blocking you to try and sell stuff and Jordana got chatting to some woman and she's now committed that we're going to go to her souvenir shop and buy something because she was so friendly. We have to. I was thinking that. She was so nice. That is literally her sales plan though. She's nice to get you to buy stuff and you've fallen for it. I'm gonna have to buy something from her store. Like she was so lovely. She was super super nice. So this lady has been so nice so I've just bought a bracelet from her shop. So 400 Don. Grant's literally seething about it but I'm happy so. Come on. I'm pretty sure we'd massively overpaid and she should have haggled but what are you gonna do? She won't listen. So we had a really cool time at the Marble Mountains. It was really picturesque, beautiful. A lot of climbing, a lot of stairs, wear sensible shoes but we're now here at the Sun Sentry. My Sun Sentry. But yeah like it's very out in the sticks and it's very like you can hear in the background all the like bugs and everything. So I'm glad I've teed it up but we're quite excited to have a look around aren't we? Yeah yeah it should be really good here. We were calling it my son and then the taxi driver didn't understand. I think that he was calling it me son. So maybe it's that I don't know. But yeah this is like a really ancient temple complex from it started being built 1700 years ago. So yeah really excited to go in and have a look. So let's show you guys around. It's really nice and relaxing here isn't it? It's lovely. There's not many tourists either. No I don't know what time we're here because it's like nearly four o'clock and it closes at five but it's a lot cooler. So it's only like ridiculously hot like the other place now because it's later. But yeah there's not a lot of tourists at all. This is weird. Just saying how relaxing it is that all the motorbikes come fast. But other than the motorbikes we've only actually seen two other tourists so far. So yeah if it does get busy come late in the evening because it's dead. We've done quite a lot of walking today so I do not fancy the two kilometer walk to the temple. So we're going to jump in one of the buggies. It's very picturesque around here. Super relaxing. We haven't even got to the temples yet and already I'm glad we've came. Like there is mountains, there's just greenery everywhere. We are quite far out of Da Nang so it was a maybe a probably 40 minute drive. And yeah just super relaxing. You wouldn't have thought we were in a massive hustling bustling city just a few minutes ago. So Meesan was built by the Champa dynasty. They started building it in the 4th century and they finished building it in the 13th century. So over a thousand years of adding on extra temples and extra buildings and improving it. And the Champa dynasty, that was the kingdom that controlled the coastal region of southern Vietnam. So this was right next to their capital of the whole kingdom and Meesan was a really important part of the capital because it was where they came to do sacrifices, to do religious worship and a lot of the kings were buried here as well. And then after the fall of the Champa dynasty this site was just completely abandoned. So it was everyone had forgotten about it, no one even knew it was here and then some explorers rediscovered it in 1885. Literally all you can hear is all the noises of like the bugs and everything. So honest I wish I'd have brought some more bug spray so definitely definitely put some on. I haven't been bitten yet but watch this space because I always get bitten. So the temples over here have just generally turned to ruins over time. There were some bombs that hit this area in the Vietnam war or the American war as it's called over here and there's one crater right behind me here where you can see where one of the larger bombs landed. So the ruins in this part of the sanctuary are made from sandstone and they were originally built over a thousand years ago in the year 800 which is absolutely mental. Jordana was just saying I bet there's so many animals in here it's such a lush forest and then all of a sudden a tree like cracked near us and this big massive monkey jumped out. I couldn't quite get my camera up in time and if you've watched this channel before you'll know Jordana is terrified of monkeys. She really gets scared of them so she's had a few bad experiences in the past so she just cacked herself then and ran off. Literally literally nearly pooed myself like no I was like no this is not this is not all right. You all right loves? I just keep hearing Nav rustling and I'm like oh my god there's a monkey. I'm literally terrified. I'm probably being really silly because we saw one monkey but yeah. This place is absolutely beautiful and it's really giving me like Angkor Wat vibes like the old temples look quite similar to what you would see in Cambodia in Angkor Wat and yeah it's just really really beautiful. It's been such a lovely time just walking through all the wilderness and looking at all the beautiful temples. It's been really really nice. This is definitely a must do in Da Nang. We've had a great day out exploring some of the sites in Da Nang. I hope you guys have liked watching what we've been getting up to. Before we get changed and head out for some drinks and food this evening I've realized we haven't showed you our hotel room yet so we are staying at a hotel called Legend Boutique Hotel and it's just off the beach like quite near to the main central area with the bars and restaurants and all the things to do and see so the location's great. It cost us I think it was 850,000 Dong a night so like pretty reasonably priced for a nice hotel and I'll just show you the room now. Not the best view you can just see the reason I'm showing it you can just see the beach here so you can see how far it is away it's like a minute two minute walk away. Nice big spacious room very comfy bed bath in the bedroom for some reason there is massive TV desk to do a bit of work. The only thing I'd say is it feels a little bit like it's been designed by a man and it feels a little bit like someone who isn't very practical and doesn't think about the practicalities has gone oh that looks nice that looks nice I'll whack that in and there's just a few little bits like there's absolutely no storage anywhere so you'll see we've just got piles of stuff because there's nowhere to put any of our things which is just a little bit odd and having the sink and the bath in the living room even though it's a big room it feels like oddly laid out which I'm not quite sure it hasn't ruined our time here we'd still recommend it it's a nice hotel it's like yeah nice enough and then the bathroom again pretty modern like nice shower, toilet not much to show really there is a swimming pool on floor 11 which is pretty cool and that was one of the main reasons we booked this it was basically the location near the beach and the swimming pool that swung it for us I'm gonna go out and see a bit more of Da Nang we're gonna hopefully go to the night market and we're gonna see the Dragon Bridge I think at a weekend it does some sort of display I don't know if it's fireworks or lights or whatever but sounds good and it's nearby so we're gonna check that out we've come for a drink at Brilliant Top Bar and I would definitely definitely recommend coming here like the views are incredible we're right on the river and it just looks amazing there's so many lights like big buildings there's the bridge just over here like it just looks amazing so definitely get yourself down here either for food or drinks we are still in Da Nang and we're super excited this morning we've got up really early to go to Ba Na Hills so we've had such a fun day at Ba Na Hills and if you want to see the full video that we've uploaded you can check that out in the link in the description but now we're here at My Kee Beach and unfortunately it's a bit overcast but we're gonna still enjoy ourselves because we love the beach and it's still nice and warm anyway isn't it? it's still super hot after a super busy morning we've just had a really relaxed afternoon it's been really nice we've basically just been on My Kee Beach having a bit of a walk stopping off at one of the bars or restaurants having a couple of beers and then having a bit more of a walk and it's been so nice I can really see why Da Nang and My Kee Beach are so popular with tourists it is a gorgeous beach super soft white sand lovely warm water plenty of bars and restaurants and cafes to get drinks and it is incredibly long so I've just googled it because I was like this is maybe the longest beach I've ever been on it's 10 kilometers so six miles long it is absolutely insane this is easily one of the best beaches we've been on in the whole time in Vietnam so we're here again in Koh Khun Phato and I think we've spent like the majority of our time in Da Nang in this place like happy hour is so so good like the wine's really nice and literally it's so cheap in happy hour it's 90 000 dong I think for two glasses of wine in happy hour so you really can't beat that that's like super cheap and as well it's none of that cheap deluxe stuff it's like proper French, Australian, South African wine it's really tasty innit also like I'm currently drinking white wine but they had like a sparkling rose which was really really nice but we've been here that often they obviously don't have that many people that drink that we've literally drank all of it there's no more left they're not getting any more until Tuesday but tonight's our last night which is really sad because I would have loved another glass of that but to be fair the white wine is really really nice as well but yeah definitely get yourself here we haven't had any food here but they do meats and cheeses which look really really good as well so you need to come here so we have come to Mr India for tea tonight the reviews are fantastic so we thought let's give it a go see what it's like we both really like curry so I'm very excited starters have just arrived I say starters we've got a starter we've got some onion bhajis Jordana has gone for the chilli chicken again how does this one compare to the others? it's just got this like sweet spicy taste and it's really really good going for a bit of chilli chicken it is so good that is honestly fantastic and also as you were talking the curry has arrived so I've gone for the one we're sharing we've gone for the handi chicken and then we've got our cheese garlic naan mmm that is really good this place has been the best Indian like place for like curries and meals like that in Vietnam wow yeah that is good sorry I just swallowed that but that is honestly like so nice I can't really put into words why it's so good it's just so flavoursome so the chicken is really tender there's just so many different flavours in there it is honestly this is incredible so Graham what did you think? this is honestly like top tier you've got to come here if you've enjoyed this video please like and subscribe and remember to check out our next video to see if Barnar Hills lives up to the hype and if it's worth going to