Experience extreme sports for the young in Da Nang

If you feel free and have nothing to do, you can challenge yourself by trying extreme sports when traveling to Da Nang. Especially, Da Nang has been built as a tourism city with many natural tourist destinations and one of the most young, dynamic, ever-growing cities in Vietnam.

Rock climbing at marble mountains

Being a cluster of five hills made from limestone and marble, Marble Mountains are a well-known pilgrimage site with peaks, caves, tunnels and temples all just waiting to be discovered. Named after the elements metal, wood, water, fire and earth, Marble Mountains exist in a coastal area that is renowned for stone-cutting and sculpture about 8km south of Da Nang.

One special choice is spending a full day rock climbing at the famous Marble Mountain. However, you should observe and select agents which provide reputable safe facilities.

Kayaking

Kayaking is not only a wonderful sport to challenge calmness, patience but also a problem-solving lesson. Depending on your adventurous extent, you can choose yourself a suitable starting point. They can be a peaceful place or a waterfall if you want more thrilling experience.

Paragliding

Although it’s a new sport in Da Nang, paragliding appeals a lot of players by its attractiveness and novelty. It is the most attractive and adventurous water sport. You will be equipped with parachute and pulled up to the sky by canoe. Protected by safety belts bounded in belly and hip, you will be able to fly at a 70 – 100 m altitude. Although it’s an adventurous sport, safety is always guaranteed. You will be equipped with life jackets and a guard canoes. After your landing, life jacket helps you float on water, and then canoe will pull you up. It costs about 500,000-600,000 VND/10 minutes, depending on the number of players.

Paintball

Paintball is an attractive entertainment activity of collective sport which simulates traditional fake fights. Players compete to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball gun. The game is organized at the Da Nang Paintball Club (7 Duy Tan Street, Hai Chau District, Da Nang City).

Watercraft

This is a suitable sport for those who love high speed and adventure. It’s amazing to ride a high-speed watercraft. However, renting a watercraft in Da Nang is quite expensive, (about 400 000 VND/30’).

Do not miss new experiences of adventurous aquariums trip in Da Nang and a special space in natural surroundings.

Read more: The fascinated spots in Da Nang

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The super cute destinations for the tourists in Seoul, Korea

Seoul has the perfect mix of history, culture, the arts and nature. Imagine skyscrapers, hanok villages, mountains, great restaurants, cute cafés and of course lots of shops and street food stalls.  It is a really photogenic destination and there plenty of instagrammable places in Seoul.

LINE Store

Brimming with an immense galore of LINE merchandise up for grabs, the LINE store at Ehwa definitely comes in at the top of our list of cute places in Seoul. Be sure to drop by this Instagram-worthy store when you are shopping in Ehwa, especially since it is only a short distance from the main fashion street. This place is virtual reality-come-true with the LINE characters from your chat app morphing into irresistible keepsakes.

The most arresting feature of this store is the quaint brick wall that hits all the right notes in the visuals department, displaying rows of Brown bears dressed in a plethora of outfits. And if you cannot get enough of the charm of this store, there is a little booth in which more LINE plushies await to greet you. This has got to be the epitome of cuteness, hands down.

Hapjeong Station

The next hidden photo spot in Seoul is Hapjeong. Located just north of the Han river in Mapo-Gu. These colourful umbrellas can be found between exit 9 and exit 10. Hapjeong is a new up and coming area, perfect for the ‘hipster’ crowd. The streets are filled with quirky coffee shops, restaurants and small boutiques. Hapjeong even has it is own cafe street, running between Hapjeong station and Sangsu station. Even though Hapjeong lies just next to Hongdae, it is a much quieter area perfect for a relaxing night out.

Ihwa Mural Village

Tucked in a secluded area, this humble yet extraordinary residential area is worth the trek up Naksan Mountain, it is a tourist paradise where modernity and tradition meld into a harmonious concoction. We were surprised to find shops selling intricate costume jewellery, a plenitude of souvenirs, and even a few cafes brewing the whole range of coffee beverages.

Be dressed in your best, you will definitely want to look as gorgeous as the hand-painted murals which are pure artistry. When you travel to the village, you can also enjoy the tranquillity of this place away from the bustle of the city.

Namsan Tower

Namsan tower is Seoul’s first tower-like attraction spot. The tower being 480m was the tallest tower of Seoul until Lotte tower was built. There is a hiking trail that starts at the bottom of Namsan tower just next to the cable car. The hike only takes around 30 minutes. Visiting Namsan tower is definitely one of the top 10 things to do in Seoul.

StyleNanda Pink Pool Café – Pink Hotel

One of the most Instagram worthy cafes in Seoul is the StyleNanda Pink Pool Cafe in Myeongdong. The whole place just screams to be photographed from coffee with a cotton candy cloud to bath tubs filled with flowers.

So next to being photogenic, what can you actually do at StyleNanda? Well, even though it is a “hotel”, it is not really a hotel (can you still follow?). It is a themed shop and there are “hotel rooms” with beds, but these are merely the fitting rooms. So, in the end you cannot spend the night here but you can buy food, drinks and clothes. And take lots of pretty photos.

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Thingyan Water Festival, Burmese New Year Festival

Thingyan is the Burmese New Year and usually falls around mid-April. It is a traditional festival celebrated over a period of four to five days culminating in the New Year.

Time for festival

Thingyan is a public holiday in Myanmar usually celebrated over three days beginning on 13 April. The public holidays given for each year will depend on which day of the week, 13 April falls on. Thingyan are the most important and the biggest festival in Myanmar. Formerly the dates of Thingyan would have been based on the Burma lunisolar calendar, but the dates have now been fixed on 13 April.

Origin of Thingyan

This is an ancient festival and when it was first observed, the movement of the sun into Aries would have been closer to the Vernal Equinox which marks the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere.

The legend of the origin of Thingyan relates to an argument over a mathematical problem between two gods. The loser of this argument had his head cut off. However, when his head hit the ground, the earth would burn, if thrown in the sea, the water would dry up and if thrown in the air, it would explode in a fireball. To keep this from happening, seven goddesses took turns holding the head for a year each, changing over on Thingyan. The winner of the argument cut off the head of an elephant and stuck it on the headless body, thereby creating the god, Ganesh.

Celebration of Thingyan

Before festival begins, Buddhist people carry out an important ritual of “Bathing the Buddha”. In villages and towns, young people go the monasteries, temples and pagodas to clean all Buddha images with scented water.  During that time, monasteries, temples and pagodas are also cleaned by those groups at the same time.  In our more modern societies, people wash the Buddha images in the family shrine room with scented water.  In general, people start water throwing only after the 'Bathing the Buddha' ritual has completed.  Throughout the cleaning ritual period, groups sing and dance happily to Thingyan Songs, whilst others who cannot resist the temptation of fun begin to throwing water at each other once outside the monasteries or pagodas on their way home.

If you are in Myanmar during Thingyan, prepare to get wet. Everyone is likely to get soaking as people roam around with buckets of water or hose, spraying water on anyone they can. This tradition originates from the custom of washing away the bad luck and misfortune of the previous year, entering the new year cleansed from the past. Water cleansing is a custom common in many New Year festivals around the world.

Read more: Songkran Festival, wet or very wet!

Another activity

Another indispensable activity is going to the pagodas. Early in the morning, most of the local people gather in the central areas where traditional music and dance performances are played with lively and jubilant voices to welcome a new year. After that, they come to the temples and pagodas to pray for a lucky year for their family and relatives. On these days, the people do many good deeds such as offering to the monks, paying homage to parents, teachers and the elderly, setting the animals free.

Different from the other Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar has been open to the world recently, which helps it remain all of the uniquely traditional cultures. Let’s go and discover this remarkable land!

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