1. Ocean Dunes Golf Club
The Ocean Dunes course offers exciting opportunities for more experienced players who will appreciate the challenges posed by the winds. Sculpted out of the coastal dunes along the Eastern Sea, the Ocean Dunes Golf Club is the ideal respite from the demands of daily life. Enjoy Phan Thiet’s brilliant sun, windswept dunes and sea breezes as you tee-off at one of the most exciting links style golf.
2. Phan Thiet Beach
Located right on the sands of Phan Thiet beach, Lotus Muine Beach Resort & Spa provides a tranquil retreat by the sea with easy access to Ho Chi Minh City. The long beach and the gardens surrounding our resort are among the most beautiful in the area, covering an expansive 2 hectors of land. Charm Tower, Send Dunes, Fairy Stream, The heart of Ham Tien, Mui Ne Bay, Phan Thiet City and harbor market are a few minutes’ drive from Lotus Muine Beach Resort, and Sea Links Golf course as well as Ocean Dunes Golf Club are all very nearby.
Travel to Phan Thiet City from Ho Chi Minh City takes no longer than three and a half hours on the expressway, and we can even arrange for you to be escorted by limousine from Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
3. Po Sha Nu Towers in Phan Thiet
Dating back to the 8th century, this complex features three magnificent towers. Built during the Cham nation, it boasts the distinctive Hoa Lai artistic style. Set on a hill also known as the Prince palace, the tower is located 6kms north-east of Phan Thiet city. The area between the Prince Palace and Phan Thiet is popular with visitors and researchers. The rock-strewn pathway leading up to Prince Palace exhibits several early ruins and attractive scenery. The Buu Son Pagoda and Co Mountain are adjacent to Po Sha Nu. If you follow the beach further down, you'll come across Mui Ne Beach and Ong Dia temple.
4. Hon Rom
Going from Phan Thiet to Mui Ne for 26km, then for more 4km along the seashore tourists will set foot in the Hon Rom.
The beach is clean and beautiful with clear blue water. Calm winds sing lullabies unceasingly under cool shadows of coconuts trees sagging under the weight of their fruit. White sand dunes follow the yellow ones. The dunes keep changing their shapes as a result of wind blowing. All set up a wild attraction, inviting tourists to this well-known field resort. Tourists often come here to sightsee and discover the unique beauty of the sand dunes. Newly built bamboo cottages on sand dunes and new forms of entertainment such as sand surfing, sea-bathing, fire burning outside camps, or boarding on fishing boats add greater charm to the resort.
5. Ke Ga Island
The one-hundred-year-old lighthouse on Ke Ga Island is the most favourite destination for visitors to Binh Thuan Province
25 km from the city of Phan Thiet , Binh Thuan Province Ke Ga
There are many international and domestic ships and fishing boats coming and going in the area. As there are reefs in the area, French and local people decided to erect the light house to warn ships of the danger.
Designed by a French architect named Chnavat, construction started in February 1897 and was completed by the end of 1898, and the lighthouse was put in operation in 1900. The lighthouse has now been operating for 108 years.
The light house with its unique architecture is about 60m tall. From that height, visitors can see a vast expanse of sea and sky and enjoy cool ocean winds. The most beautiful moment to visit the lighthouse is at sunset. People can see a fantastic sight with splendid colours. Sometimes they can not distinguish the boundary of the sky and sea.
Visitors can also stay on the island overnight to go fishing. Fishing during the full moon is another unforgettable experience. People can taste the baked sea fish they have caught by themselves and then stay up to see the first sunlight.
At this point, the tour to the Ke Ga lighthouse has only just been started and is drawing much attention from international and domestic visitors.
6. Cu Lao Cau Island
Cu Lao Cau island is characterised by rocky outcrops, with sandy beaches on the north and south sides. The highest point on the island is 27m. It covers a long distance of over 1.500m with the widest area of nearly 700m and the highest one of 7m above sea level. The entire island is surrounded by tens of thousands of cliff blocks of different colors and shapes. From the main land, it looks like a big warship. It is really interesting when having a condition to observe the whole island carefully. Around this isle, the water is always clean and blue. When the tide goes down, on the seashore we can see numerous beautiful shells and corals pleasing the tourists’eyes.
Quite many kinds of sea creatures living around this island. It would be very great if tourists bring a fishing rod and some preys to fish. On the island, there is also a fresh water well, which is called a Fairy Well from an old book. Although the water amount is small, the well is the sort of permanent leaking water.
Fringing coral reefs can be found around Cu Lao Cau island and platform reefs on submerged banks. The reefs are pristine, with an average cover of 43%. This site supports the highest diversity of hermatypic corals known in Vietnam. There are more than 65 genera of coral known here, including Acropora, Goniopora, Montipora, Porites, and Favia. There is also a small area of seagrass beds. Sea currents from the north and south converge near Hon Cau-Vinh Hao, with strong upwelling. The area has high productivity, with 175 phytoplankton species, 163 seaweed species, 147 coral species, 80 mollusc species, 46 crustacean species, 26 echinoderm species and 211 fish species so far recorded here.
Cu Lao Cau island is one of the places that has Vietnam’s best ecological environment. With beautiful neglected beach, presently, it is has been planned to be a marine life preservation zone and an eco tourist site. The island will promisingly become an ideal ecological tourist attraction.
7. Co Thach pagoda
Co Thach Pagoda is located in Binh Thanh Village, Tuy Phong District, in Binh Thuan Province, on a 64-m-high mountain, next to Ca Duoc Beach. It was first a hatch-roof hut set up by
venerable Master Bao Tang in the middle of the 19th century. Ho Cong Diem rebuilt the pagoda more majestically and named it Co Thach. The pagoda, after the unification with Binh Phuoc Pagoda, was again restored and enlarged. It was also renovated many times from 1956 to 1964.
