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Quy Nhon - Cat Hai Coastline:
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Trung Luong Beach (Cat Tien Commune) at weekend. Photo by Dao Tien Dat |
Nature generously rewards Binh Dinh with sunny beaches with pure blue water. The beaches stretch from the centre of Quy Nhon city to the Northeast of Nhon Ly, Nhon Hoi Communes (Quy Nhon City), Cat Tien and Cat Hai Communes (Phu Cat District). Quy Nhon-Cat Hai is one of the most beautiful coastlines in the Southern Central region with ideal beaches such as Tan Thanh, Vinh Hoi and Trung Luong (Cat Hai, Cat Tien Communes). Visitors can wallow themselves in immense ocean and enjoy magnificient landscape with windy sand hills and sparkling sand. They can also try local special fresh seafood.
Ghenh Rang Hill:
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View of Quy Nhon City from Ghenh Rang Hills. Photo by Dao Tien Dat |
Located in the Southeast of Quy Nhon City, it is a national tourist spot as well as a natural masterpiece with groups of mountainous cliffs along the seaside. Stones and pebbles there heap up into caves, hill-ranges, reefs with fresh air and beautiful scenery. Thus, it was choosen as resort of Bao Dai King in 1927. At the foot of the hill, adjacent to the reefs locates a special beach with thousands of seawave-polished pebbles which used to be reserve only for Her Excellency Nam Phuong Queen (wife of Bao Dai King). Hence, it has been called Queen’s Beach. From the hillside, tourists can see the entire Eastern part of Quy Nhon City and Phuong Mai Peninsula farther with the Thi Nai Lagoon. This looks like a classical Chinese painting. At the hillside is the tomb of Han Mac Tu - a famous poet in the Vietnamese literary circles.
Thi Nai Lagoon, Phuong Mai Peninsula:
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Panorama of Thi Nai over sea bridge, the longest of its type in Vietnam (2.501,75m). Photo by Dao Tien Dat |
Thi Nai Lagoon, the largest of its type in Binh Dinh Province, locates in the Northeast of Quy Nhon City. It stretches more than 10km long and 4km wide with a lot of well-known fresh, delicious and nutritious seafood. At the west bank of the lagoon, there is a small mountain on which stands a small ancient temple built by the villagers to worship the Water God. The temple was named Thay Boi Tower because a lot of kingfishers gathered together there. At dawns or in full-moon nights with sparkling lights all over the surface of the lagoon, the landscape looks like a fanciful fairy land.
In the East of Thi Nai Lagoon, Phuong Mai Peninsula with its 15-km stretching range of mountains towards the sea is considered a huge protective screen to Quy Nhon City. In the North and further to the Northwest of the peninsula locate beautiful beaches reaching to Phu Cat District. From far distance, Phuong Mai looks like head of a dragon whose body stretches to De Gi Estuary in the North. The Southernmost land of the peninsula looks like a sharp scimiter surrounded by many dangerous caves where salanganes prefers to build nests. Their nests are used as extremely precious and nutritious specialty.
Thi Nai Lagoon and Phuong Mai Peninsula used to be army strategic defensive places bearing imprints of many glorious victories of the Tay Son insurgent troops. With construction of Thi Nai over sea bridge connecting Phuong Mai Peninsula and Quy Nhon City, the locality will hopefully attract more and more tourists.
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