Da Nang Beaches

1. Non Nuoc Beach
Da Nang has a coastline of 30 kilometres long, famous for many beautiful seashores stretching from the north to the south such as My Khe, Thanh Binh, Tien Sa, Son Tra and so on. Non Nuoc Beach also pertains to Da Nang Sea and has been voted as one of the most beautiful and attracting beaches of the planet, 2005, according to Forbes, the leading magazine of America. This beach has gentle slope, mild waves, and purely blue sea water during the four seasons. The unpolluted water source here has attracted a number of tourists coming to bathe, enjoy local special sea foods and take a rest for weekends. The beach Non Nước is also a place that exist precious and rare seaweeds such as gracilarias "yellow thread" and glacilaria "screw" that have high value of exporting.


With green water and white sand, Non Nuoc Beach stretches five kilometers along the shore of Hoa Hai Ward at the foot of Ngu Hanh Son (The Marble Mountains). The beach is famous for its seaweed, which reaches exportation standards. Many five-star hotels were built in Non Nuoc to accommodate the domestic and foreign tourists in the area. Together with its feature of wave degree, climate, weather and salinity, Non Nuoc Beach is suitable for water sports, especially surfing. In 1993, there took place an international champion with the participation of nearly 40 athletes from many countries around the world.


Along the beach, on the white sand is a forest of age-old casuarinas which is shady, green and is waving in the whistling wind. This is an ideal place for resting and camping. When the darkness falls and the moon rises, you can set yourself free on smooth benches along the beach to listen to melodious sounds of the waves and enjoy the occult space. 
The beach is managed by the Non Nuoc Tourism Company that has  three hotels with more than 100 rooms on the beach. They provide entertainment services including photographs for souvenir, handicraft shops, massage, restaurant, tennis and some gymnastics. A chain of tourism resorts is planned to cater for international tourists including seaside hotels and restaurants, especially an international standard golf court.
Besides convalescence and bathing, tourists to Non Nuoc Beach can also combine their journeys with traveling the relic Marble Mountains, which boast some ancient pagodas and sacred  monumental caves, go around fine art stone handicraft villages right at the foot of the Mountains or go boating on Co Co River (Stork Neck River) to enjoy peacefulness of the Marble Mountains.
2. Bac My An Beach
Seven kilometers southeast to the city’s center, located in Bac My An ward, Ngu Hanh Son district, Danang city is Bac My An beach.
There are five wonderful resorts in this region: T18, My Da Dong 2, My Da Dong 3, Bac My An and Furama.


Before 1975 it was a natural beach. After the city’s liberation day, local authority decided to erect a resting house and a sanatorium to serve civil officials of previous Quang Nam - Da Nang province. And now with appearance of Furama tourist site, the beach is well-known on its international coastal relaxing resort.


Furama resort with 200 bedrooms, and other services coming up to the 5-star level officially began to work since 1996. Different services of T18, Danatours company, and private shops with articles of reasonable price are available.
Up to a tourist’s financial capability and taste, one can have his own choice. Furama resort is for one of a full pocket, while nearby small hotels, and resting houses are at rather reasonable price.
3. Thanh Binh Beach
Thanh Binh Beach is at the end of Ong Ich Khiem street of Thanh Binh Ward, Hai Chau District.
The beach is calm and there is rarely whirling water.

Situated in Danang Bay along Nguyen Tat Thanh street, Thanh Binh is one of the city's beautiful and convenient beaches. Such sea services as water-skiing, traveling by boat, canoeing etc. have been strongly developed. This is also a rather ideal place for the construction of seaside hotels and small-scale tourist wharves
4. Nam O Beach
Developed in the early 1960s, Nam O Beach was originally frequented by local people alone. The stilt houses of today were built for tourist purposes and much of its historical charm has been lost. The small community used to support itself by producing firecrackers but since the government imposed a ban on these in 1995, the inventive locals have gone into preparing nuoc nam, a dipping fish sauce, instead.

A highlight of a trip to Nam O Beach is taking a boat westwards on the Cu De river. This ecological tour takes tourists to Hoa Bac in Hoa Vang district, a ward inhabited by roughly 9,000 minority people and dominated by the cultivation of tea and coffee.

Nam O Beach is on its way to become an increasingly touristy spot since a large new hotel complex, the Red Beach Resort has been built. The beach is furthermore incorporated in a project to embellish landscapes and solve the problem of pollution. The construction of an 800-meter road that will connect the Nam O Bridge with the bathing resorts is also part of this concept.
5. Xuan Thieu Beach
The Xuan Thieu beach is 3km south of Nam O beach - a place-name linked with a historical event happening in March 1965 when the brigade No.9 of the US marine forces entered the city to start the strategy of "local war" in Vietnam.

Since 1975, the beach is only used for the US soldiers because this was the US military zone with an airport for field combat and storage of military supplies and defence system of Danang city from the North. The US troops called Xuan Thieu 'Red Beach”. This may be owing to visual feeling when they saw at dawn and sunset and the red was reflected from the sea.
Xuan Thieu beach is clean, beautiful and unchanged with white and silky sand and green water.
Since 1992, Xuan Thieu tourism resort has been built with a rather streamlined and sufficient system of services, including hotels, restaurants and some kinds of entertainment for bathing, meeting all tourists' demand.
At present, a 15-km long tourist road route from Thuan Phuoc to the foot of Hai Van Pass through Xuan Thieu beach has been building and will be completed in late 2003. This will be the chance for exploiting all potentials of the beach.
6. Son Tra Beach
Son Tra Peninsula has lots of beautiful beaches such as Bai Bac, Bai Nam and Bai But. Those beaches remain wild and water is pure. Going up the mount, tourist will go in primeval forest called the Son Tra National Conservation Park. Flora and fauna are plentiful with valuable animals and plants, including red cheek gibbons and turtles noted in the Vietnam's Red Book. 
At the sea bed, there are long and beautiful coral reef which is potential for sea diving tourism. The Bai But tourism resort including pleasure-houses, are being built on the mountain sides. 


Also, there will be an oceanography center to be built here. Tourists can go swimming, fishing and sightseeing by boat.
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