On a boat from Da Bac Port one day, we traveled to Binh Ba Island (in Cam Binh Commune, Cam Ranh District), which is famous for lobsters, specialty of Khanh Hoa Province...
On a boat from Da Bac Port one day, we traveled to Binh Ba Island (in Cam Binh Commune, Cam Ranh District), which is famous for lobsters, specialty of Khanh Hoa Province.
On one-hour boat trip on sea, we had a chance to contemplate beautiful landscape of blue sea, huge sky, scattered islands and the scene of floating boats or fishermen dropping net. When our boat came near Binh Ba Island, we saw a lot of lobster rafts close together.
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| Binh Ba Island |
Lobster specialty, neglected beaches, colorful corals and plain life of the residents are attractions of Binh Ba. The island now has no hotels. Visitors can board at private houses and pitch tent on beaches.
Binh Ba is really an island of lobsters. Cam Binh Commune has four hamlets, three of which belong to Binh Ba. The whole commune features 4,500 lobster cages, mainly in Binh Ba.
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| Grilled lobsters |
Formerly, only some tourists who want to discover a new place came to this island for a short trip. Recently, some travel firms have operated tours here. At weekends, the residents here have got familiar to groups of tourists coming here by boat, swimming by beaches, walking on winding roads of the island, eating and drinking funnily by lobster rafts.
Le Quynh Son, a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City, said, “I have chosen Binh Ba Island as a destination for its beautiful beach and nice but cheap seafood.”
“I’ve traveled to many places but I like the difference of Binh Ba. The beach is not crowded. I also feel exciting when living with plain fishers and enjoying fresh lobsters by their cages”, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Duc, another tourist from Ho Chi Minh City said after swimming at Nom beach of the island.
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| Beautiful beach on Binh Ba Island |
According to Party Committee Secretary and People Committee Chairman of Cam Binh Commune Tran Van Hoa, for a year, a number of tourists have come to Binh Ba Island for weekends. There are about 50 – 70 visitors each week.
During the trip on Binh Ba Island, tourists often visit Nam Hai Tomb (Tomb of Whale), which was built in end eighteenth century. It features culture and spirit of fishers. There’s a fish prayer rite here annually. Visitors also can see a great whale skeleton aged hundreds of years.
Binh Ba Island has beautiful beaches, namely Chuong, Cay Me, Nha Cu, Bo De and Nom. Tourists also can climb up to a blockhouse to contemplate overview of the island or hire motorbikes and cars to go around the island.
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