Less than two hundred meters from the famous Golden Bridge at Sun World Ba Na Hills was a flower garden that visitors shouldn't miss out; Le Jardin D'amour Flower Garden, which means the Garden of Love!
Entrance wasn't grand enough to accurately represent the scale of the garden. From this hardly impressive "gateway", you are forgiven for assuming there's nothing much.
Proceeded down the path. Sun World Ba Na Hills was actually built in sections accessible mainly by cable cars; hence, if you are at the Golden Bridge area, there's really nowhere else to go but to be either holed up at an eatery or check out Le Jardin D'amour Flower Garden and/or Linh Ung Pagoda.
A much better signage; why didn't the designer thought of moving the above to the entrance closer to Golden Bridge. This would have generated more interests to draw in the visitors.
For a moment, I thought these squirrels were decorated with flowers / berries, given the garden relevance. A closer look, however, said otherwise. They looked more like those fake berries / cranberries used for Christmas decorations.
Entrance fees for Sun World Ba Na Hills included admissions for almost all the entrances; exceptions included the alpine coaster and access to Wax Museum, and the above Bar Debay- Wine Cellar etc!
Wine connoisseurs might be interested though as the ticket cost only 70,000 dong per person and this cellar was built more than a hundred years ago, at a depth of 100 meters!
Now the main area!
The gardens with flowers aplenty! I thought it was just one huge garden but they were further separated. Not that it matters much since it was just a collective of gardens. The above reminded me of the flower field at Flower Dome at Gardens of the Bay in Singapore, where there's always a main attraction.
Happy taking photographs!
Pity I was alone.
Fancy playing with humongous chess pieces? They reminded me of an incident at work, when an incident report was filed when a person hurt his/her fingers while moving a heavy, stone chair.
Cascading fountain from a water hour glass. Love the visuals although the cultural imbecile within me can't really get the arts implication. Shallow, I sure am.
Mythology Garden - aside from the Roman statues and the architectural columns, I was scratching my head on the kind of Roman myths we were supposed to relate to. Whatever the case, they were pretty.
Eden Garden; should they portray Adam, Eve and maybe the snake, instead of a peacock!? I don't know about you but the feathers on the peacock's head seem more like arrows that hit its head.
Suoi Mo Garden - with its terraced flower plots. After a while, it was just flower after flower. Nevertheless, it was mentally relaxing with so many flowers surrounding us. What I lacked was a cup of hot chocolate while relaxing with the sights in front of me.
A water feature that didn't seem to be operational, but key message was behind; a vantage view of the Golden Bridge! I don't know why I kept thinking if was golden hands bridge in the past!
Another water feature; that of a merboy blowing a golden horn, as if to awake the schools of fishes to come to his rescue since he was stuck in the highlands, far from the seas.
Random photographs for reference!
The Big Buddha from the next door Linh Ung Pagoda can be seen from Le Jardin D'amour Flower Garden, creating a strong contrast between cultures.
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