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"Exclusive Club" - One of the
World's Most Beautiful Bays.
Nha Trang is located 450 kilometers North of
Ho Chi Minh City, 570 kilometers south of Da Nang and 1350 kilometers
south of Ha Noi. There are daily flights from these cities to Nha Trang
and vice versa. It takes approximately one hour flying from
Ho Chi Minh City, one hour and twenty minutes from Da Nang and one
hour and 45 minutes from Ha Noi. There are more frequent flights
between Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang.
Also, there are night and day trains available and the train journey
is comfortable nowadays. Besides, daily buses run by Sinh Cafe are
also available. Reaching Nhatrang cannot be easier.
Nha Trang is the capital of Khanh Hoa Province,
a coastal province being located in the
South-Central
and possesses an area of 5,197 square kilometers. The population
is 475, 669 with a density of 220 persons per square kilometer.
Khanh Hoa is endowed with rich and diverse natural resources, especially
with huge marine resources, which can be exploited, processed for
exports in large volume.
Its islands of swallows annually provide up to 2 tons of bird nest
that represents an extraordinary material to produce different healthy
and precious products.
Additionally, at the seabed there are lots of strikingly colorful
corals with protozoan comparable to under-sea parks, highly attractive
for snorkeling and diving activities. Being endowed with a costal
line of 200 km in length, with nearly 200 large and small islands,
Khanh Hoa has a temperature climate with more 300 sunny days in
a year and an average temperature of 26 degree Celcius.
The archipelagoes is over 600 square kilometers. There are 32 different
ethnic groups in which the majority is Kinh People.
Dive Tour
This being the most luxurious live aboard
vessel in Nhatrang
bay,
you are assured of comfort, where you can relax. Amongst the 19
meter fully fitted boat with living room, dining room and seven
double cabins finished in polished wood.
All your meals are provided along with snacks throughout the trip.
We have a great crew and atmosphere aboard. This is by far the best
Dive trip in the area, we cruise the Nhatrang bay, Van Phong bay
and Cape Varella. Jaking in the splendid scenery combined with some
spectacular marine life located at our dive sites. Only small groups
or private charters are welcome.
The Big Wall
This dive is a vertical drop of 20m to 35m with an incredible quantity
of soft coral with a great variety of colours. Marine life here
ranges from Groupers to Jacks, Parrot Fishes, Stingrays, Angel Fishes,
Lion Fishes and Butterfly Fishes.
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The Small Wall
A
drop of 18 m and a slop to 25 m. At 20 m there is a big rock
covered with rare green coral (Tubastrea Microntha) also (Tubastrea
Aurea) a golden coral. Here you will encounter black and red
Lion Fishes, Bat Fishes, Longfin Banner Fishes (Heniochus) and
sometimes even the rare Frog Fish.
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The Cave
A nice reef starting at 5m then slowly descends to 22/25 m.
This site has an open cave to swim through from 9 to 6m depth.
During the dive the coral is nice, you can see Nudibranches,
Lion Fishes, Cowries (Ovula Ovum), Octopus, Trigger Fishes,
Parrot Fishes and beautiful Clown Fishes along with christmas
trees (Spirobranchus) and Feather Stars (Crinoides).
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Coral Garden
The site is from 3 to 16m with a very nice coral reef. There
are some beautiful Clown Fishes, Butterfly Fishes Gobies (Puellaris,
Albimaculatus) and Blennies (Midas, Bicolor). This site is a
very good place to do try dive's and open water courses
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Moray Beach
This is 3 to 18m dive, the best place for try dive or for Open
Water Course. Starting on the sand where we can see Scorpion
Fishes, Lion Fishes, Clown Fishes, rare Black Frog Fish and
White Frog Fish. The splendid coral reef continues to the moray
cave. Three giant moray (2 Javanicus and 1 beautiful Favagineus)
close by we can find some network pipe fishes and two Multibar
Pipe Fishes, Razor fishes and Trumpet fishes. At the end of
the dive, at 3m, in a small cave, there are 2 nice Leaf fishes
(Taenianotus Triacantus) and a big Stone Fish. Sometimes we
encounter one or two extremely rare Devil Scorpion Fishes, who
walk on the sand area.
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South Reef
From 6 to 25m. There is a nice coral reef at 6m. A small
wall to 15m with a very good coral especially Acropora. The
area has many different Coral Fishes and a variety of Shrimps
species from White Banded Cleaner Shrimps (Amboinensis), Cleaner
Shrimps (Antonbruunii), Hingebeak Shrimps (Durbanensis) to the
elegant Periclimenes Longicarpus on the coral Sinuosa.
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Hon Trau Nam
A beautiful dive site from 10 to 35m. Good for almost 10 dives.
We find big Cartilaginous fishes: Manta Ray, Eagle Ray, Sting
Ray, also Jacks along the giant rocks drop off. On the bottom
at 25/35m, there are colorful soft coral and a very rare Black
Coral (Antipathes Dichotoma). Everywhere is abundant with Nudibranches
and Opisthobranches. Giant Angel Fishes like Pomacanthus Annularis
and P. Xanthometopon, also the yellow Trimaculatus with their
blue lips and of course the P. Imperator. On this dive at 10m
there is a small old wreck, around it are Scorpion Fish, a huge
Stone Fish. It is possible to do a drift dive on one side of
the rocks formations here.
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Hon Kho Trang
A small island around witch we can do 3 different dives from
10 to 30m. It has a good quantity of nudibranches, ranging in
size 15 to 20cm. Giant hard coral Acropora and a interesting
pass through
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Hon Tai
The site has a splendid coral garden at 12m. Giant rocks with
colorful soft corals. Walls, beautiful Clown Fish and different
Nudibranches species. This dive is from 5 to 27m.
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Night Dive
This
is a great opportunity to experience all the different animals
that come out at night after hiding among the corals in the
day. There are Sea Horses, Shrimps, Crabs, giant Spanish Dancer,
and some beautiful Clown Fishes sleeping in their sea anemones.
Depth on this is 3 to 12m and a pleasant relaxed dive.
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Hon Lon
This is a good reef where we can find quantity of Green Corals
(Tubastrea) depth on this dive is from 3 to 15m. It's along
the coast of Lon Island
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Nhatrang City Beach
Upon
arriving to Nhatrang, most tourists will pass through downtown.
Beyond the rows of businesses and homes will be Nhatrang beach.
Tran Phu Boulevard is Nhatrang's most famous thoroughfare. It
runs along the length of the beach with several major hotels
located within a few steps from the beach. Unlike most major
cities in Vietnam where the primary mode of transportation is
the motorbike, many people of Nhatrang still walk or use the
bicycle as their means of getting around. This adds to the tranquility
of the town. There is very little pollution or noise from motor
vehicles.
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Hon Chong Promontory
Chong
has two meanings in the Vietnamese language. The first is to
stack and the second is husband. Hon Chong is located on a stretch
of rocky mass of land, famous for the thousands of smooth rocks
being stacked on one another. There are two clusters of such
rocks in the area called Hon Chong. The first is further out
in the ocean and the second is located near an islet called
Sat Thon. The cluster in the ocean is most impressive since
there are large boulders stacking on one another seemingly out-of-balance,
yet remaining stable.
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There is a boulder as large as a small
hill supporting another boulder as large as a small house at
its peak. On the side facing the shore, there is an imprint
of a large hand with five fingers clearly outlined. The locals
call this rock Hon Chong or the Husband.
The cluster with the name Hon Vo or the Wife is not far away.
The rocks in Hon Vo cluster are as large as those in Hon Chong,
but the they are closer together. A somewhat romantic person
explained that this name came about because the rocks here snuggle
against one another.
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Thap Ba (Po Nagar Cham Towers)
The Po Nagar Towers once stood at the entrance of Cai river,
where the river meets the ocean. The towers stood in isolation
on a rock foundation, but over many years the towers and the
land it stands on became part of the land mass as the river
changed its flows.
Today, the tower is north of the river and the rock formation
it stood on became known as Mount Cu Lao. The town of Vinh Phuoc
at the base of the mountain was once a fishing village, known
as Xom Chai and Xom Bong.
Po Nagar Towers complex was built between the 7th and 12th century.
The most beautiful towers were built in the year 813 and 817.
Most were destroyed and only four towers are still standing.
Each tower is a shrine to a different deity.
One tower is the shrine to Xiva, one of three most powerful
deities in Hinduism. One tower is dedicated to Ganexa, the son
of Xiva. This deity has a human body and an elephant head. Po
Nagar is the tallest tower, also known as Thap Ba (Tower of
the Lady). Po Nagar or Uma is the wife of Xiva the supreme.
Po Nagar towers stands 23m in height and was built around 817
Bricks were used in the building of Po Nagar. The four-sided
structure is topped by a pyramid with a statue of the four armed
Xiva riding Nandin the enchanted ox at the apex. The exterior
of the tower is covered by intricate rock carvings of dancers,
people rowing boats, grinding rice or hunting with bows and
arrows.
The interior is airy and cool. An alter made of granite is placed
at the base of the statue of Po Nagar. Po Nagar is a goddess
with ten arms. She is also the goddess credited for her help
with teaching people how to farm. Her statue was originally
made out of hard incense wood. The statue was removed by the
French in 1946. A new statue with more Vietnamese features is
its replacement. The Po Nagar towers complex is an example of
Cham's architecture and art at its height
Nha Trang Tour infomation:
Cam Ranh Airport:
35 kilometers away from the Nhatrang
Vietnam Airlines Office:
91 Nguyen Thien Thuat street
Train Station:
17 Thai Nguyen street
Bus Station:
58 23 Thang 10 street
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