Ba Na Hills
Cloud-wrapped mountaintop pagoda watched over by a towering white seated Buddha statue.
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This guide to Ba Na Hills above Hoi An opens with a rivalry: Da Nang official Nguyen Ba Thanh and a monk named Thich Thien Nguyen each wanted a mountaintop pagoda built on a different spot, and in the late 1990s they settled it by drawing lots. You'll hear what the resulting name, Linh Ung, is said to promise, and the fishermen's legend of a Buddha statue washed ashore that gave rise to three sister pagodas said to guard Da Nang. Come on the new or full moon, when worshippers still climb here to chant.
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