Quy Nhon Guide - All you need to know
Quy Nhon has a long history of 400 years, influenced by Champa culture in the 11th century, the Tay Son dynasty, and the Thi Nai port in the 18th century. Quy Nhon has a quiet unspoiled nature, mountains, salt marshes, and a 42km coastline with beautiful peninsulas. Quy Nhon is developing into a tourist center of the Central region in Vietnam.
Located in Binh Dinh province, Quy Nhon city is quite peaceful with a harmonious combination between mountains and the sea. There are also white sand, yellow sunshine, and blue sea, but Quy Nhon is quite hot that makes many people feel hesitated. However, if you ignore Quy Nhon, you are definitely missing a lot of interesting things. The landscape has not been much exploited in tourism and the simple and seductive life here is completely enough to conquer anyone who has once stopped. And when you have the opportunity to visit this land, make sure you will spend enough time to fully enjoy the scenery and lifestyle here.
Quy Nhon
Main attractions
Queen Beach: Queen Beach (commonly known as Egg Beach) is located in the Ghenh Rang tourist area. Previously, when coming to Quy Nhon city, Nam Phuong Queen chose this place to relax so it is called “Queen” beach. Tourists come here not only can play with water waves, small rocks shaped like eggs, you can also visit the Ghenh Rang tourist area, Stone Church, the tomb of Han Mac Tu poet.
Queen Beach
Poet Han Mac Tu tomb: To visit the poet's gravesite, we have to cross a small bridge over the Tien stream then turn left to Thi Nhan hill. In front of Han Mac Tu's grave is a large cross half a meter high. The tomb is designed in a modern style with simple rectangular shapes. On the top of the tomb is a statue of Maria with both arms outstretched, eyes looking down at the tomb.
Bai Xep fishing village
Bai Xep fishing village: Listed by Business Insider as one of the "secret gems" destinations in Asia, Bai Xep fishing village attracts many tourists by the beauty of a traditional fishing village, without the fuss of vehicles or the bustling like other tourist areas. You should come to Bai Xep as soon as possible when it has not been too much industrial intervention to enjoy its pristine nature.
Culture
Very few places are rich in cultural traditions, heritage, and tourism like here, Quy Nhon is considered a “Shining Pearl” in the culture of Binh Dinh. There is a lot of cultural beauty transmitted generation after generation such as the famous festival culture, which attracts visitors from other places such as the Fishing Festival, Bai Choi Festival, etc. The Fishing Festival of Nhon Hai fishermen shows their gratitude to Ong fish (whale - Nam Hai god) to pray for peace and prosperity, good harvest, and good weather.
One of the cultural beauties in Binh Dinh is “Bai Choi” game. Players must answer by a song and become different characters such as shogun, soldiers, man or woman, etc.
Bai Choi festival
Weather
Quy Nhon tourism is mainly based on beach tourism, so it depends a lot on the weather. Therefore, the summer months (May, June, July) are still the most convenient time to travel to Quy Nhon. In March and April, the weather here is also less rainy, sunny, clear blue sky but the waves are very strong, so some activities such as going to Ky Co, Hon Kho by canoe are not available.
Tourists should also avoid going to Quy Nhon in the Lunar New Year. This time Quy Nhon is extremely crowded, most hotels are out of room due to a large number of tourists from the Central Highlands provinces.
Island in Quy Nhon
Transportation
Air-plane: Currently from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar, Vietjet Air, etc. have flights to Phu Cat airport, averagely 2 flights/ per day from Ho Chi Minh City and 1 flight/ per day from Hanoi.
Train: From Hanoi: It will take about VND 480,000 for the hard seat and VND 730,000 for the soft seat air conditioner to Quy Nhon. Train tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Quy Nhon at VND 280,000 with hard seats and VND 440,000 with soft seat air-conditioned seats.
Bus: From Hanoi: The price of a bus from Hanoi to Quy Nhon is VND 560,000 with many routes of the day. From TP. Ho Chi Minh: You will spend about 250,000 VND to get a ticket from TP. Ho Chi Minh City to Quy Nhon.
Thanh Van
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