Hai Au Aviation (HAA) has launched a flight between Da Nang city and Dong Hoi, the capital city of Quang Binh province – the first service for aerial sightseeing between the two popular destinations in central Vietnam.
The flight between Da Nang city and Dong Hoi, the capital city of Quang Binh province, will be operated on a 12-seat Cessna Grand Caravan 208B-EX plane. (Photo: VNA)
Quang Binh (VNA) – Hai Au Aviation (HAA) has launched a flight between Da Nang city and Dong Hoi, thecapital city of Quang Binh province – the first service for aerial sightseeing betweenthe two popular destinations in central Vietnam.
The route serves passengers everyThursday and Sunday on a 12-seat Cessna Grand Caravan 208B-EX plane. A ticketcosts 6.96 million VND (300 USD).
It takes about70 minutes each way, instead of 6 hours travelling by train or 7 hours bycoach, said Ho Anh Phong, Director of the provincial Department of Tourism.
According toPhong, not only saving time, the service also enables passengers to enjoy the view of a most magnificent landscape along Vietnam’scentral coast from above, from beautiful Son Tra peninsula, Hai Van Pass – oneof the most scenic hillside roads crossing over a spur of Truong Son mountainrange – to Lang Co beach and the 24-kmTam Giang Lagoon where the region’s three large rivers meet before they flowinto the sea.
Da Nang,Vietnam’s third largest city, is among the country’s top destinations and hasbeen recently named in the list of 52 places to go in 2019 by TheNew York Times.
The vibrantcity has gone from a place that is "best known for being a gatewayto UNESCO Heritage town of Hoi An" to an attraction "with a strongfoodie scene and new hotels and resorts popping up on a five-mile-longbeach strip", according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile,Dong Hoi is a tranquil city that lies in the heart of Quang Binh. It is thegateway for visitors to Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, or the “Kingdom ofCaves”, which was twicerecognised as world natural heritage sites by UNESCO in 2003 and 2015.
The nationalpark is home to Son Doong Cave, the 1,645m-long cave system, whichextends through a mountain, was named one of the most captivating on earth byNational Geographic. It was discovered by a local in 1991 and first explored in2009 by the British Cave Research Association, and has been open to the publicsince 2013.
HAA is asubsidiary of Thien Minh Group (TMG) – one of Vietnam’s leading travel andhospitality companies. The airline is the country’s first and only provider ofseaplane tours that offer passengers the bird’s eye view of popular touristattractions, including Ha Long Bay, Hue and Da Nang. –VNA
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The flight between Da Nang city and Dong Hoi, the capital city of Quang Binh province, will be operated on a 12-seat Cessna Grand Caravan 208B-EX plane. (Photo: VNA)
