{"id":65016,"date":"2026-06-30T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65016"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:41:58","slug":"hiking-monkey-mountain-in-da-nang-vietnam-in-search-of-the-most-beautiful-primate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=65016","title":{"rendered":"Hiking \u2018Monkey Mountain\u2019 in Da Nang, Vietnam, in search of the most beautiful primate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/30\/05aa3edf-2073-4770-87dc-16bc3da9b016_2a71f14e.jpg?itok=zlSgjpbk&amp;v=1782794425\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">There are many reasons tourists visit <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Da Nang<\/span> in central Vietnam: the great city beach, the proximity to tourist hotspot <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hoi An<\/span>, and the food and nightlife. But the nature excursions available in the city are underrated.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jutting out of its downtown core on the northeast side is the Son Tra Peninsula, a lush nature reserve roughly 60 sq km (23 square miles) \u2013 two-thirds the size of Hong Kong Island.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">American troops used the peninsula\u2019s elevated headland during the Vietnam war, carving access roads and erecting radar towers on the peak. These have since been decommissioned and replaced by weather stations and police and military outposts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The parkland\u2019s most famous resident is its 67-metre-tall Lady Buddha, or the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin. Finished in 2010, the statue at the Linh Ung Pagoda has become a tourist attraction, but few visitors explore the jungle and wildlife beyond the Buddhist site.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is partly intentional. Son Tra does not actually have many proper hiking trails, in part to protect its animals, including more than 100 types of birds, countless butterflies, deer, snakes, macaques and beautiful but endangered red-shanked douc langurs. Of the roughly 3,000 of these herbivorous primates left in the world, about 2,000 of them live on the Son Tra Peninsula. They are Son Tra\u2019s main attraction for animal lovers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For our expedition around \u201cMonkey Mountain\u201d, which is what the Americans called Son Tra and the name the locals have since adopted, we are led by a guide from Next Continent, a wildlife consultancy and nature tourism specialist in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3358694\/hiking-monkey-mountain-da-nang-vietnam-search-most-beautiful-primate?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons tourists visit Da Nang in central Vietnam: the great city beach, the proximity to tourist hotspot Hoi An, and the food&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8999,5090,9493,7909,25701,15563,1506,4619],"class_list":["post-65016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-beautiful","tag-hiking","tag-monkey","tag-mountain","tag-nang","tag-primate","tag-search","tag-vietnam","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}