Bordering the East Sea to the East, Nghe An has 82 km of coastline, stretching through 5 coastal districts and towns: Hoang Mai town, Quynh Luu district, Dien Chau district, Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town. On that 82 km of coastline, there are many beautiful beaches, with fine sand, clear blue water, gentle waves. Besides, there are countless large and small islands and mountains adjacent to or deep into the sea, creating wild natural landscapes.
When summer comes, Nghe An beaches are ideal and mysterious resorts for tourists to freely explore the beauty of the sea and islands; enjoy the fresh, rich seafood; as well as learn about the cultural sediments of the coastal villages with more than 300 historical and cultural relics and scenic spots that have been ranked at the national level. Each coastal area of Nghe An has a traditional folk festival. The festivals still preserve very distinct cultural features.
Here are the most beautiful beaches in Nghe An in the 2023 tourism year:
As the easternmost land of Nghe An, Hoang Mai town is rich in cultural and historical values with 75 relics and scenic spots, nearly 80 intangible heritage values. Famous relics include Con Temple (the largest Mother Goddess worship center in the Central region, considered the most sacred place in Nghe An); Le Canal; Rocket Cave - evidence of the sacrifice of 33 youth volunteers in the railway industry.
When visiting Hoang Mai, you cannot miss Quynh Phuong - Quynh Lien beach. Quynh Phuong beach is associated with the relic of Con Ngoai Temple (located on the top of the lizard mountain close to the coast). Standing at Con Ngoai, you can look down at the waves crashing on the rocky beach, and watch the fishing boats coming back from the open sea, very beautiful.
Quynh Phuong – Quynh Lien beach is still almost pristine, only a small part of coastal services has been exploited. There are many rocky mountain ranges stretching out to the sea. The beach is flat, gentle, and immense. The sand here is yellow, with large grains, so walking barefoot on the sand feels very clean. The gentle waves create very attractive beaches.
Coming to Hoang Mai beach, any tourist will be amazed by the freshness of seafood such as shrimp, crab, squid, grouper, mackerel, scad, scad, oyster, blood cockle... with a sweet, rich flavor. Hoang Mai fishing port is the source of nearly 40% of seafood for the whole Nghe An province and neighboring localities.
Quynh Luu beach is 19.5km long, with a terrain that combines mountains, sea, rivers and creeks. Along the coast are islands and casuarina forests, creating a sense of serenity and relaxation. This beach has many beautiful, flat sandy beaches and many unexplored, pristine beaches.
Each beach gives visitors different feelings: Tien Thuy beach is like a large, poetic lake, surrounded by green pine hills on three sides; Quynh Bang beach has a unique rocky beach; Quynh Luong beach has the beautiful Quy Linh temple; Quynh Nghia beach is calm and ideal for swimming.
Nature favors Quynh Luu beaches with gentle waves and fine white sand. Quynh beach possesses its own romantic, peaceful and extremely poetic beauty. Quynh Luu sea water is always clear, especially in the morning and afternoon, and has a high salinity, very suitable for the medical and relaxation needs of tourists.
Coming to Quynh Luu beach, tourists can freely swim in the sea and enjoy fresh seafood. It should be added that the seafood restaurants along the coast here are very suitable for the criteria of delicious - nutritious - cheap for backpackers. In particular, tourists should not forget to rent small boats to go along the large rocks to admire the beautiful cliffs and explore mysterious caves.
Coming to Quynh Luu, in addition to sea tourism, visitors should explore and learn about this land with a long cultural history. This is the hometown of the world cultural celebrity Ho Xuan Huong and many other talented people. The whole district currently has 193 inventoried relics, including 15 national relics. Quynh Luu is also famous for many unique traditional folk festivals such as Ky Phuc Festival (Quynh Doi commune), Cau Ngu Festival (Son Hai commune, Tien Thuy), Thuong Temple Festival (Quynh Nghia commune), and Basket Boat Racing (Quynh Long).
In Quynh Luu, there are many long-standing traditional craft villages such as ornamental flower growing, carpentry (Quynh Hong), incense making (Quynh Doi), carpentry (Quynh Hung), clean vegetable growing (Quynh Luong, Quynh Minh, Quynh Bang), and salt making in coastal communes.
With 25 km of coastline, Dien Chau has wide, long beaches that stretch as far as the eye can see, and is elaborately decorated by nature with white sand and lush green mangrove forests and casuarina forests. These forests are a solid green wall that prevents storms and high tides and protects the ecological environment. The green wall is like undulating mountain ranges. This is the home of many species of birds.
The landscape of Dien Chau beaches is very wild, peaceful and romantic. Walking on these beaches, visitors can freely breathe fresh air, watch the colorful sails hurrying back and forth on the sea at dawn, noon and sunset. The sails form long, winding streaks, looking from afar like giant moving butterflies. The scene of boats going back and forth is like a group of horses racing to ride the waves... Coming here, visitors will feel relaxed, forgetting all the fatigue, hardships and worries of daily life.
In Dien Chau, Dien Thanh beach is most beautiful at the transition between day and night. This beach has many restaurants but is not crowded but peaceful like in the countryside.
Next is Cua Hien beach – a place in legends and myths. This beach is where the legend of the Crossbow, Loa Thanh and the love story of My Chau and Trong Thuy ended. According to legend, this is where An Duong Vuong beheaded Princess My Chau and followed the Golden Turtle God into the sea, the origin of the legend of Ngoc Trai.
The beach in Cua Hien area is flat with fine sand. Cua Hien beach still retains its pristine beauty, being the only place in Nghe An without Lao wind. The special thing is that there are rocky beaches running along the edge of the sea. The rocks lying along the beach look like a "fish beach" so the locals call it Ngu Hai beach. On the outer edge there is a round rock, over 2m high, with a flat top called the fairy chess board. Legend has it that every time they come down to the mortal world, the fairies often land on this rock to play chess together, drink wine and admire the scenery of the earthly world... There are not many shops in Cua Hien and they still have the rustic character of the countryside, but the seafood here is always fresh and the prices are very affordable.
Nghi Loc sea area has many beautiful and attractive beaches such as Bai Lu, Bai Tien Phong (Nghi Tien), Cua Hien, Nui Rong (Nghi Thiet). In these beaches, the water is clear, the sand is clean, the waves are not big, the depth is gentle, the salinity is suitable, and the location is convenient for transportation, the natural environment is fresh... Besides the tourism potential, this sea area also has great potential for developing aquaculture of aquatic products such as: shrimp, crab and fish of high economic value, exploiting for seafood processing.
Among the beaches in Nghi Loc, Bai Lu is the one that has been completely built, put into operation and attracts a large number of domestic and international visitors. Bai Lu is likened to "Cinderella transformed into a Princess"... Bai Lu is where the sea penetrates deep into the mainland, so the sea water here is clear, you can see every small pebble. According to many research projects, the water in Bai Lu has a high mineral content because it is in the sediment of rocks, the sea is close to the mountains so it is very good for health.
Coming to Bai Lu, visitors will be "stunned" by the perfect combination of the clear blue water of the ocean on one side, and the green of the pine forests on the other. "Mountains intermingle with the sea, the sea intermingles with the clouds and sky"; the soft sand beaches like silk undulating along the waves give Bai Lu a soft, peaceful, graceful appearance like a young girl. The waves are not too big but gently lapping the shore, along with the long, gently sloping sand beach, visitors can comfortably play volleyball and soccer here.
Standing on the gate of heaven Lu Son, visitors can fully admire the landscape of a vast sea. To the sea, you can clearly see Song Ngu, Dao Mat, Lan Chau and closer to the mainland are Hung Linh, Lan Chau, Dragon Mountain, Lo Mountain, Co Mountain, Kiem Mountain, Chuong Ga, Mao Mountain, Tuong Son (Elephant Mountain), Quyet Son. To the North, along the sea are Dragon Head Mountain (Long Thu), Hon Cau, Da Son, Cam Son. To the West are Dai Vac, Than Vu, Len Hai Vai, Dai Hai, Dai Ban, Dai Tu, Dai Hue, Thien Nhan, Lam Thanh Son... Cam River has clear blue water flowing down to the bustling Cua Lo sea area.
Another beautiful beach that tourists should explore is Mui Rong - Nghi Thiet beach. In the summer, many local people choose this place to dispel fatigue and heat. Mui Rong beach is suitable for relaxation and exploration because it has a smooth, safe, deserted sand beach, with few shops and services around. It will be very interesting to come here with a group of friends, bring food and organize camping on the beach.
Nature has endowed Cua Lo with a long, gentle beach, clean, blue water, and moderate salinity. First, when visitors come to Cua Lo, they need and should experience swimming and watching the sunrise. Cua Lo beach has a long, smooth, flat sand strip, clean seawater and gentle waves. Even though the tide rises and falls, the depth remains unchanged, creating a sense of safety when swimming. In particular, waking up at 4am to catch the sunrise on the sea is definitely an unforgettable feeling.
Coming to Cua Lo, visitors must definitely enjoy the fresh and famous seafood here. In addition to crab, shrimp, mackerel, eel porridge, clam porridge, etc., when coming to Cua Lo, visitors can also enjoy dishes made from a type of squid with a very special name - flashing squid (also known as dancing squid). This dish is always in the top 10 seafood specialties of Vietnam.
When staying in Cua Lo, tourists can be completely assured of the rooms, amenities and prices. The whole town currently has over 300 hotels and motels with over 10,000 rooms, meeting the accommodation needs of over 20,000 guests/day and night. Of which, dozens of high-end resorts are qualified to organize international events, typically the Vinpearl Cua Hoi Tourist Area invested and built by Vingroup Corporation. Vinpearl Cua Hoi Tourist Area includes a 5-star resort villa area, a 5-star 5-storey hotel, a restaurant area, a marina and many internal facilities such as a restaurant & bar, an outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court... It must be said that nowhere else have room prices as cheap as Cua Lo in particular and Nghe An in general.
In Cua Lo, there is not only sea tourism but also sacred and tranquil spaces for tourists to visit. With hundreds of years of history, this place has a dense system of relics, many of which have been put into tourism development, including: Lang Hieu Temple; Mai Bang Temple; Van Loc Temple; Ngu Pagoda...
Ngu Pagoda is located on Song Ngu Island. This island is located between Cua Lo and Cua Hoi seaports, about 4km from Cua Lo beach. Visitors can get here by boat or canoe, cutting through the waves for about 20 minutes. Song Ngu Island is beautiful and pristine with many outstanding highlights such as the beautiful pebble beach with a gentle slope, Tien beach with clear, cool water, and beautiful scenery.
It will be an interesting experience for tourists to visit the craft villages in Cua Lo to better understand the cultural values and people here. In Cua Lo, there are currently famous craft villages such as Nghi Thuy fishing and seafood processing village; Hai Giang 1 fish sauce craft village; Seafood preservation and processing village in Nghi Tan ward... These craft villages all have origins dating back hundreds of years, originating from fishing households in coastal fishing villages. The products of the craft villages are all from the famous delicious "gifts" of the sea.
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With its diversity, Nghe An's "sea paradises" have their own beauty and appeal. This helps tourists to be proactive in choosing a suitable resort. In the middle of hot summer days, coming to Nghe An beach, tourists will surely be able to freely splash around in the cool, clear blue sea water and have endless days of fun and festivities.
Identifying sea tourism as a strength, Nghe An province has been focusing on investing in building infrastructure for coastal localities. Nghe An tourism industry and localities have been making efforts to promote and attract investors to invest in building high-class resorts and entertainment areas as well as inviting tourists to their homeland's sea./.
