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Thursday, April 03, 2025

Thien Huong Spa & Massage @ Da Nang in Vietnam

Like my mom, I am a sucker for massages; anything with the potential to relieve my body aches and relax my cluttered mind. Hence, on this official last night at central Vietnam, I decided to check out Thien Huong Spa & Massage! 

Simply because it's within walking distance from Haian Riverfront Hotel Da Nang and they still had available slot for massages. It definitely did help that review score on Google Maps was above 4.5.

Menu as above; I went with the Oil Body Spa Therapy for 60 minutes at 380,000 dong, about S$20. Although traditional foot spa had a cheaper pricing, I personally prefer body over foot massage.

Washing my feet first! Of course, hard to take photographs during the massage and in summary, there wasn't any of the "cracking" typical of thai massages. However, I would deem this massage as above average as I almost dozed off, and was awakened due to my dripping saliva! 

Extra points for the after massage snacks! First time I am having a free serving of longans, and to think that we had mangoes a few days ago at Ni Spa in Hoi An. Instead of fruit after a meal, it's fruit after a massage. Loving it.

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Address
195A Trần Phú, Phước Ninh, 
Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng 550000, Vietnam

Map
As above. 

Pricing
Oil Body Spa (60 Minutes) - 380,000 dong

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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Dua Ben Tre 190 (Dessert) @ Da Nang in Vietnam

Is it strange to want to enjoy as much as you could on the last night of your overseas vacation? For someone who is normally quite disciplined when it comes to late night food intake in Singapore, I was tempted to step into the above green building, and mind you; it was close to 11pm! 

A dessert place that claimed to be open 24 hours (claimed as I noted it was close the next morning), my eyes were drawn to the cheapest item on the menu. Beer that cost only 20,000 dong, slightly more than S$1. No, I shall have a dessert, as per the shop's original purpose.

Avocado Cream - served nicely in glass bowl, this was a beautiful display of three scoops of ice cream, topped with shred of coconut, raisins, a slice of strawberry and a stick of love letter. All for only about S$2.40!

Indulging in ice cream on a cool 23 degrees celcius night was so comforting. Ice cream looked avocado green but strangely, it tasted more like your typical cheap vanilla flavored ice cream; not exactly worth it from the point of a true blue ice cream connoisseur.

Nevertheless, I am not wasting food. 

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Address
190 Bạch Đằng, Phước Ninh, 
Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng 550000, Vietnam

Map
As above.

Pricing
Avocado Cream Kem Bo - 45,000 dong



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Day Five of My 8 Days' Trip to Danang (The City of Bridges) & Hoi An (The City of Lanterns) in Vietnam


Detailed Postings for Day Five

When people use their vacations to catch up on your sleep, guess who woke up at 6am, decided he can't sleep anymore, and went out for a jog towards the Tran Thi Ly Cable Bridge?! Of course, it was me! Ageing is a bitch! 

I am not the only one! The local aunties were already fully decked out, in bright, colorful Vietnamese traditional attire, the ao dai, on a Friday morning! Guess they face the same situation as me.

Jogging nearer to Tran Thi Ly Cable Bridge. My focus that day was on the walking bridge, the yellow one, that was before Tran Thi Ly Cable Bridge. Visually, both seemed to be one bridge but it's definitely not. Check out my post on Nguyen Van Troi Walking Bridge.

View of the iconic Dragon Bridge from the Walking Bridge.
Its full 666 meters body, from head to tail.

There was no fence and I didn't realize I chanced into a private estate. How did I know? The security caught me and chased me out! Correction, I was invited out. 

Known as Euro Village, it's a cluster of villas that's at prime real estate! No wonder security was so tight although I thought some kind of physical barrier, that's more obvious, would have been helpful to keep curious people like me out of it. 

Continuing my jog on the other side of the Han River. Frankly, jogging in Da Nang was invigorating; the March temperature was cool, and there's also a nice breeze brushing against my sweaty skin.

One of the major tourist market for Da Nang is South Korea and it's not uncommon to see Korean translations on the menu, and for the above pho eatery, signboard too! 

Jogging towards the direction of Dragon Bridge.

It was a surprise to see the chatter of aunties out so early in the morning, but it was a shock to see a group of teenagers out too, apparently to learn dancing! That's commitment to some level! 

Going up the staircase and cutting across Dragon Bridge! 
I can never get sick of being so close to the dragon head.

My gosh! Another group of youngsters; looked like students. As it was a Friday, was it some kind of morning activities before they go to school?! Singaporean students would likely make use of such time to sleep!

Had to get through an underpass. And mind you, it has a height limit of 1.6 meters! And even I, a shortie, had to bend down in order not to hit my head. A rare moment of self-acclaimed pride that I wasn't so short after all. Haha.

View across Han River. 

Kick starting our first day tour in Da Nang; to Sun World Ba Na Hills! Many foreigners would likely ask what's this place about as most only recognize a prominent attraction it was most famous for. 

Arrival at the grand entrance of Sun World Ba Na Hills! 

First thing we needed to go; the Cable Car Rides up the 1,500 meter high Bana Hills! In Singapore, they would have been called mountains or highlands. 


There were nine sub postings under Sun World Ba Na Hills and you could also find the listing here. You can also click the hyperlinks as follows; Alpine Coaster, Fantasy Park, French Village, Brasserie Restaurant, Spiritual Zone, Le Jardin D'amour Flower Garden and Linh Ung Pagoda.

Prominent landmark I mentioned earlier; the icon of Ba Na Hills, although some will argue it's likely the icon of Da Nang; here's the impressive Golden Bridge! 

Took the cable car back to the foot of Sun World Ba Na Hills, and on our way back to Da Nang. As mentioned in my posting here, it's better to stay one or two nights at Ba Na Hills so that you have sufficient time to explore the humongous "theme park"!

Most countries have carparks but in Vietnam, motorbike carparks are the norm, to the extent that the pavements in front of shops often doubled up as parking spaces, at the expense of pedestrians.

Drove past Cho Han Market, which we visited on Day Four of our trip.

We hit the street shortly after taking a short rest back at our Da Nang accommodation; Haian Riverfront Hotel! Strolling past the 'flower market' near Cho Han. 

Our intended destination; Bánh Mì Cô Tiên! This was like my 3rd or 4th banh mi in this trip and although there wasn't my favorite thit nuong option, I was still darn happy with my egg banh mi above! 

Pampering session at Seoul Cắt Tóc Spa!
The one in Ho Chi Minh was better though. 

Dinner at Thien Kim Restaurant; a highly reviewed restaurant with over 4,000 reviewers! Was it worth the calorie intake? Please check out my review here. 

From the comfort of our room at Haian Riverfront Hotel, let's check out the Dragon Bridge Show. I could see the actions but to be honest, it was too far! 

Well, the night was still early.... So...

Ending the night with a cocktail at the Haian Riverfront Hotel's rooftop bar! View was nice (Dragon Bridge was right ahead) even though I feel the glass panels were too tall.

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