Start from 42 curated places around Da Nang, VN, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Nén Danang Restaurant
Da Nang's fine-dining flagship: a storytelling tasting menu built almost entirely from central-Vietnamese ingredients, much of it grown on the restaurant's own farm. Each course arrives with a hand-drawn card explaining the memory behind it. This is the special-occasion booking - one long, quiet evening that rethinks food you've been eating from plastic stools all week.
Bánh Xèo Bà Dưỡng
The banh xeo institution at the dead end of an alley off Hoang Dieu, packed nightly with Da Nang families folding crispy turmeric pancakes into rice paper with herbs. The house peanut-liver dipping sauce is the thing - smoky, thick, and the reason this place outlived every imitator on the lane.
Trails & outdoors
Ban Co Peak
The chessboard summit of Son Tra mountain, where a bronze sage sits mid-game over a stone board and the whole of Da Nang unrolls below - the river, the bridges, the full arc of My Khe. Hike the steep jungle road from the city side (a serious 8-10 km round trip with real elevation) or ride up and walk the final viewpoint paths.
Son Tra Ancient Banyan Tree
A roughly 800-year-old giant banyan deep on the peninsula's coast road, its 26 aerial roots forming a grove you can walk inside - a national heritage tree and the easy-walking excuse to ride Son Tra's most beautiful stretch of coastline. The trail section from the road is short and shaded.
Things to do
Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture
The world's largest collection of Champa sculpture, housed in a century-old French colonial museum beside the Dragon Bridge - sandstone gods, dancing apsaras, and altars excavated from My Son and the surrounding kingdom. Small enough for ninety minutes, dense enough to reframe everything you see in central Vietnam afterward.
Da Nang Fine Arts Museum
A quiet three-floor museum of central-Vietnamese modern art and folk craft that almost no tourist enters - lacquer paintings, war-era graphics, and a top floor of Co Tu and Central Highlands ethnographic work that's genuinely eye-opening. The rainy-afternoon option that costs almost nothing.
Landmarks & sights
The Marble Mountains
Five limestone karsts rising straight out of the beach flats south of town, riddled with cave shrines, working Buddhist pagodas, and stairways cut into the rock. Huyen Khong Cave is the showpiece - a collapsed ceiling sends shafts of light onto an altar carved into the cavern floor. Plan a half morning and wear real shoes; the marble steps are polished slick.
Linh Ung Bai But Pagoda
The working pagoda on Son Tra's southern slope whose 67-meter white Lady Buddha watches over the whole bay - you can see her from anywhere on My Khe Beach. The courtyard of bonsai and arhat statues is genuinely peaceful, and the terrace gives you the best free panorama of the city's coastline.