Golden Bridge

This guide to the Golden Bridge above Da Nang follows architect Vu Viet Anh's pitch for two giant stone hands cradling a golden walkway, and the months it took to convince a skeptical client. It traces the mountain's own story back to 1901, when French colonists built a hill-station resort of villas and wine cellars here, and through the decades of war and jungle that swallowed it afterward. It ends with Sun Group's return to the mountain, threading a cable car up the same slopes the French once climbed.