Ba Na Hills Motorbike Tour

Why Take A Ba Na Hills Motorbike Tour

Ba Na Hills sits roughly 40 kilometers west of Da Nang, high in the Truong Son mountains at almost 1,500 meters above sea level. Most visitors reach it the same way: packed onto a tour bus that drives straight to the cable car station parking lot, sees nothing of the mountains along the way, and leaves exactly the same way it arrived. A Ba Na Hills motorbike tour is a genuinely different experience of the same destination — riding behind a licensed local guide along the winding road that climbs through rural villages, pine forest, and waterfall valleys before you ever reach the cable car at all.

To be upfront about how the mountain actually works: no vehicle, including motorbikes, is permitted to drive all the way to the summit resort itself — the final, steepest stretch of the old French-built mountain road is reserved for the operator’s service vehicles only. What a Ba Na Hills motorbike tour gives you is the ride most visitors never get to have at all — the approach through the foothills and lower mountain — followed by the record- breaking cable car ride up to the summit in place of a crowded bus. You get the open-air mountain riding experience on the way there, and the most spectacular way to finish the climb once you arrive.

A Record-Breaking Ride Above The Clouds

Ba Na Hills holds two Guinness World Records through its cable car system: the longest non-stop single-track cable car line in the world, at 5,801 meters, and the greatest elevation gain between two stations on a non-stop cable car, at nearly 1,300 meters. What took cars and buses close to an hour to climb along the old switchback road now takes around 20–30 minutes by cable car, gliding directly over primeval forest, waterfalls, and cloud layers that most visitors would otherwise never see up close.

At the summit, Ba Na’s elevation of nearly 1,500 meters creates a genuine microclimate — temperatures can run roughly 10°C cooler than the coast, and locals often describe experiencing “four seasons in one day” as cloud, sun, and mist shift rapidly across the mountaintop. The Golden Bridge, opened in 2018 and held aloft by two giant weathered stone hands, has since become one of the most photographed landmarks in Vietnam, while the French Village recreates a European mountain town complete with a Gothic-style church, cobblestone streets, and a 24-meter white Buddha statue near Linh Ung Pagoda.

The Ride: What A Ba Na Hills Motorbike Tour Looks Like

A typical Ba Na Hills motorbike tour leaves Da Nang heading west along Nguyen Van Linh Street toward Hoa Vang district, gradually trading city traffic for rice fields and small farming villages at the base of the Truong Son range. As the road narrows and begins to climb, the air cools and pine forest closes in around tighter mountain curves, with streams and waterfall views appearing near Suoi Mo before the road reaches the cable car station and parking area. From there, riders leave the motorbike behind and board the cable car for the record-breaking ascent to the summit, where a full day can be spent exploring the Golden Bridge, French Village, Fantasy Park, and Linh Ung Pagoda before the same route carries you back down to Da Nang in the afternoon.

This Ba Na Hills motorbike tour is one of several full-day routes in our Da Nang motorbike tour collection, alongside our Hai Van Pass, Son Tra Peninsula, and Hoi An routes. If you’re planning your trip and want to see how it fits with everything else on offer, browse the full list on our Tours page.

What’s Included

Every Ba Na Hills motorbike tour with DaNangOnMotorBike is led by a licensed, experienced local guide who drives for you — guests are never asked to drive themselves. A helmet is provided for the full ride, and your guide will pull over at safe spots for photos through the pine forest and waterfall valleys on the way up. Sun World Ba Na Hills entrance and cable car tickets are a separate cost from the motorbike ride itself, and your guide can help you sort tickets on arrival at the base station.