Danang City - Da Nang Travel Photos

The elongated oval of Da Nang occupies a small headland protruding into the southern curve of Da Nang Bay.

The city faces east, fronting onto Bach Dang and the Han River, across which the narrow Son Tra Peninsula shelters it from the South China Sea. Its streets follow a rough grid plan, dissected by two main thoroughfares, Le Duan and Le Loi/Phan Chu Trinh. Hung Vuong and streets around form the commercial heart of Da Nang, running between the two central markets: sprawling, oppressive Cho Con in the west and orderly Cho Han by the river.

Two blocks south of Han market, past the soft, salmon-mousse coloured cathedral, colonial Da Nang is represented by a few wooden and stucco houses at the eastern end of Tran Quoc Toan. From here turn right along riverfront Bach Dang for 750m to reach the Cham Museum, the city’s only real tourist attraction, or left to stroll north past a collection of well-restored French-era administrative buildings, some of them now occupied by People’s Committees and hotels.