There is Linh Ung pagoda located on the monkey mountain and the buddha statue is momentous! Very worth seeing. For Hoi An, I booked a private car service with my hotel and it cost 600,000 VND/two way. Or approx 300,000/one way. The price is very reasonable. The service is good and very convenient for us.

No closing time for visiting SonTra mountain. However you should not stay there too late because that is a deserted area. The best time for visiting there is in the early morning until before 5 pm in the dry season.

Since there are no lights along the way, its best to get down the mountain before sundown. There is no closing time.

Monkey Mountain is a considerable distance from Da Nang. Our hotel hired a driver for us who took us there and we called him as we were coming down on the cable car and he picked us up then took us on a drive along the coast road and up into the hills to the north. There are spectacular views over Da Nang. The driver hire was inexpensive - I think about 800000 VND for the day.

From the hotel

We had a driver hired by our hotel who spoke good English.

Sure can! Took me under 2 hours to get from beginning of trail to top of the mountain :) Enjoy! I used my GPS and walked from the women Buddha to the start of the trail... asked some locals along the way. Definitely go.