On the morning of March 26, in Hue City (Thua Thien - Hue province), Vietnam Railway Corporation and the Provincial People's Committee and Da Nang City People's Committee coordinated to organize the opening of a specialized train running from Hue - Da Nang and vice versa. with the name "Connecting Central Heritage".
The train has 5 air-conditioned soft seat carriages and 1 community living carriage. On the train, the railway industry arranges carriages to serve cuisine, mainly special dishes of the two localities. In addition, at Da Nang station and Hue station, VIP waiting rooms are also arranged to serve train passengers.
The travel time for each trip is 3 hours, the train passes through Hai Van pass, visitors can admire the majestic natural scenery.
The boat departs 2 times in the morning and afternoon in each locality so visitors can catch the sunrise and watch the sunset on Lang Co Bay - one of the beautiful bays of the country.
At the two arrival stations, localities arrange rental bicycles for tourists to conveniently visit tourist attractions.
Thua Thien - Hue province also applies a policy of supporting discounts for organizations and individuals when visiting tourist attractions in Hue. In April, the train will be equipped with wifi.
The operation of this train is one of the efforts to connect the region and promote tourism of the People's Committees of the two cities and is a new product, opening the door for transport business products combined with exploiting tourism services. schedule that Vietnam Railways will deploy in the near future.
In Hue, train HD1 departs at Hue station at 7:45 am, arriving at Da Nang station at 10:35 am. Train HD3 departs at Hue station at 14:25 pm arriving at Da Nang at 17:40 pm.
In Da Nang, train HD2 departs from Da Nang station at 7:50 am and arrives at Hue station at 11:5 am. Train HD4 departs at Da Nang station at 15:17 pm arriving at Hue station at 45:XNUMX pm.
The railway industry applies preferential ticket prices of 150.000 VND/ticket; Monthly ticket price is 900.000 VND/ticket and discounts from 10% - 50% for passengers who are policy beneficiaries in March.