Posts Tagged ‘Khanh Hoa’

Yang Bay Tourist Area in Y Bay Tribe, Khanh Vinh District, Khanh Hoa Province, is suggested as an ideal site for tourists to celebrate the Tet holiday and discover this area that is endowed with magnificent waterfalls, blue lakes and splendid scenery.

Tourists have fun in a cool stream in Yang Bay Tourism Area in Khanh Hoa Province. (more…)

Van Phong Bay is located 50km from Nha Trang toward the north. There is a sand hill that is 18km long, situated between the main land and two islets creating a bay with a very beautiful landscape.

This beautiful landscape is endowed with wonderful natural sceneries and beaches of fine sand, an ideal temperate climate, surrounded by hills, mountains and tropical forests. The sea is all the more embellished with colorful coral reefs, vestiges of mangrove forests, rare sea creatures in an ideal environment. These are great potentials for the development of ecological tourism in Van Phong. In the plan toward the year 2010, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism declares Van Phong as “the most important region for tourism development”. There are many forms of water sports and uphill tourism here, including sea diving, water skiing, sail boating, mineral water bathing and hunting.

At present, Van Phong is ranked 1st of the 4 ideal sea tourist centers by the Sea World Association.

Tam Island is located in Vinh Nguyen Ward, to the south of Nha Trang Bay, 3 nautical miles from Nha Trang Port, Khanh Hoa Province. Tam Island offers many kinds of water sports such as jet skiing, boating, windsurfing, parachute pulling, adventure diving… Other than that, tourists can enjoy camp-fire nights on the fascinating island.

Carpeted with a green tropical forest throughout 4 seasons, the long sandy coastline winds like a mermaid exposing the smoothness of the Creator by thousands of pampering waves onto the shore all day and night. Underneath the uneven cliffs is the blue water as clear as crystal abounds with many kinds of coral reefs blooming in hundred-pink and thousand-purple colours, and hundreds of schools of fish swimming heartily here and there like visitors flocking to festivals. All seem to be fairy like and dreamlike.

There are 200 nice and colourful camps on the island. When attending the camp-fire, visitors will drink can wine, eat baked-meat and sing all night.

Hon Mun Island is situated on the south of Nha Trang Bay, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province. Named Hon Mun because in the south east of the island, it has high-rise cliffs with dangerous wattles forming caves and grottoes, especially its stones are as black as ebony, which could rarely be found in other areas.

In the black-stone caves of Hon Mun, every year flocks of swallow migrate to the area and build their nests. Due to the island’s location adjacent to the hot sea-currents from the equator, suitable to the development conditions of corals and various types of tropical sea creatures, the sea bed of Hon Mun is home to an abundant and diverse group of marine species, an interesting and useful place for researchers, oceanographers and tourists to observe and explore more of the sea creatures’ life.

In Hon Mun, visitors can dive or take grass-bottom boat to admire the colour coral and sea creatures.

Hon Chong is located 3.5km from the centre of Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province. It consists of massive rocks lying on top of one another.

Hon Chong is divided into two parts. One part is situated offshore and the other is in the sand dunes at the Cu Lao Fishing Hamlet. The offshore cluster includes layer after layer of massive rock emerging from the sea. These layers of rocks act as natural wave breakers.

The Hon Chong Promontory, located in the sand dunes, looks like the work of a giant, who carelessly put several massive rocks together. On one side of the rock, facing the sea, there is a deep handprint with the five fingers close together.

Fairies’ Stream is located in the south of Dien Khanh District, more than 20km from Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province. It current starts from Hon Ba Mountain, then flows down gorges, surrounding trees and crossing valleys; before flowing down to Suoi Cat Commune, the stream meets a natural dam and divides into two branches.

One goes to the north to the rice fields and another overflowing a hard rock, platform to the east, joining the Cai River.

The charming scenery has given birth to many legends; fairies would leave Heaven to come bathing at the stream. Male deity played chess on stone blocks. Foot prints left by a giant who, in a moment of enchantment when seeing the fairies swimming, slipped and nearly fell down into the water.

Con Se Tre Tourist Site is opposite and 3km away from Nha Trang Coast, Khanh Hoa Province. It is just 15 minutes by boat, you will be able to arrive at “Con Se Tre”. From a stone island, now “Con Se Tre” was converted into one of the most poetic tourism resorts in Nha Trang City.

Tourists can find at Con Se Tre a lively image of old villages, which once and for all have appeared in our dreams today or your childhood in a peaceful space, clean seashore, poetic settings, traditional customs and perfect services.

Cam Ranh Bay is in Cam Ranh Town, Khanh Hoa Province. Cam Ranh Bay is regarded as one of three ports that have the best natural condition in the world with closed-area of 60km² and the average deep of 18-20m.

Mountains are surrounding so that the territorial waters are out of winter. Cam Ranh takes only an hour to International Maritime Line by seagoing vessel(Haiphong is 18 hours).

Trade port in Cam Ranh Bay is called Da Bac which is in Ba Ngoi Town, so it is also called Ba Ngoi Port.