French Village Ba Na Hills Viewpoint

This guide to the French Village at Ba Na Hills traces the colonial hill station French officers built here starting in 1901 to escape Da Nang's heat, with its villas, hotels, tennis courts and a wine cellar carved into the rock by a captain named Debay. It follows what happened after the French left in 1945, when the whole town vanished under jungle for roughly fifty-five years. It also covers what a Vietnamese developer chose to rebuild here decades later. Walk down toward the old cellar, still cool and still stocked with wine.