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and we saw some beautiful moonscapes hills. It’s a tourist activities centre which
en-route to the old quarter and the Lantern has been developed recently. It is made
Street. It was so festive… almost like our fantastically, well planned, well designed
Diwali. There were beautiful lanterns lit up with so much variety in places and
and decorating the streets, which also had activities for visitors of all ages. The entire
many local food stalls on both sides. People landscape of BA NA Hills is somewhat
were sitting in groups playing music at like Disney World. While it’s marked as a
various street corners. We also saw the theme park there are a lot of things to see
Dragon dances on the road. An exhilarating and experience. We found the cable car ride
experience with two or more people clad in most thrilling. The longest and the most
dragon-like cute costumes teasing people sophisticated ride in the world, lasting
and playing with children as they romped almost half an hour. To reach the cable
the streets while tourists stopped them to car station you have to go up 8 to 10 tall
click selfies. escalators. Apart from the natural scenes
you also see huge mountain-side rock-cut
sculptures. It is breathtaking. The cable
car takes you over beautiful streams and
mountains which remain misty and cloudy.
There are many man-made wonders there
like the French village with cobbled paths
and huge castle-like structures just out of a
fairy tale.
Driving through the countryside during The Golden Bridge
the day we realise the importance of the floating above the
mythical Dragon. Even bridges made as clouds, suspended by
early as the 16th Century by the Japanese, a pair of giant stone
have been constructed to resemble the up hands is a novel piece
and down contours of a dragon’s body. of architecture. There
BA NA Hills is one of the greatest are some gigantic
attractions near HOI AN. After a drive of and surreal stone
about an hour through the magnificent sculptures all around
countryside it takes you to the base of these and ornate gardens
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