Vietnam Travel - Binh Thuan

Lanscape Mui Ne
Binh Thuan is a coastal province extreme of South China, the northeast and northern borders, Ninh Thuan province, north and northwest borders Lam Dong, the western border with Dong Nai Province, the southwestern border with Ba Ria - Vung Tau, east and south-eastern border with East Sea.

Topography of the province can be divided into 3 areas: mountain areas, the delta and coastal areas. Long coastline of over 192km (from nose dead borders Cà Ná - Ninh Thuan to Binh Chau beach compensation - Ba Ria Vung Tau), has many branches prick mountains to the sea makes the nose: La liver, Cape Small, Mui Rom, Mui NE, Ke Ga, dividing the beach into the l?m, vòm, creating areas of the sea as well: La liver - Sanskrit Ri, Mui Ne - Phan Thiet, La Gi. Offshore island with Phu Quy 23km ² wide bridge between the land, with Truong Sa.

The river flows through the province are La Nga river (from Di Linh of a drop-down Sea Lac), Quao river, the river, River Palace ... Tropical climate, less affected northeast monsoon, hot climate, drought. Average temperature in 26 º C - 27 º C, average rainfall in 800 - 1.150mm.

Potential economic development and tourism

Beach Binh Thuan
As a province with many forests, industrial wood processing, grain processing and the production of crafts is the strength of the province. Binh Thuan has a long coastline, non-rich sea seafood like mackerel, nuc, language, rice, cuttlefish. Economic development on the sea catching seafood, produce fish sauce, frozen seafood, and salt. Mui Ne in Binh Thuan becomes new, hotest destination for Vietnam Travel tourists who like nice beaches with great sea views.


Besides, where there are white sandy bathing beach, blue water clean with the same message mountains, where the beach poetic by the strip with ngat bowls. Binh Thuan has many popular excursions such as Sanskrit Thiet, Mui Ne, Ham Tan, Duong Hill ... The tourist culture - sports with the type of swimming, fishing, yachting and hunting golf.

Ethnic, religious

Binh Thuan has a culturally diverse and long life of many peoples. There are more than 30 ethnic groups living in the 6 largest ethnic group is Vietnamese (Kinh), Cham, Hoa, Ra Glai, Ho and the West.

Co Thach Pagoda
Especially where the store base architecture of the Cham is rich with high towers with land nung, just to quit, just look for the sustainable implementation of equal standing. The files Cham sculpture as the other gods, and the king, Hoang Hau, dancer, ... shows the level of technical training touches, engraved with the sharpness sure roads, health, romantic, rich imagination. Costumes, musical instruments, the dance, a shift is the heritage of your culture ancient Sa Huynh and Cham ancient cultures of the cells are kept to this day.

The architecture of ancient temples are, tower, house, temple, shrine, temple mix with relics archeologist, historical revolution, the traditional festivals of the Vietnamese, Cham people have ... giving land Binh Thuan definition of culture and unique.

Transportation

City Design Sanskrit how city. 200km Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi 1.518km months. Binh Thuan with National Highway 1A, Railway North - South through the province, with Highway 28 connecting to the Lam Dong.

Binh Thuan to hold cultural festival

The festive days will open with volleyball competitions, attracting many local professional teams, and surfing races on the smooth sand dunes of Ham Tien – Phan Tien with well known local and international athletes.

The festival will also promote the most attractive features of “the resort capital” with culinary contests and arts and fashion shows, as well as water sports.

Vietnam to join first Asian Beach Games 2008

A ceremony was held last Wednesday for a group of 57 Vietnamese athletes who will attend the first Asian Beach Games.

The ceremony was held in Bon Bien tourist site in the central province of Binh Thuan with the attendance of representatives from the departments of Sport, Culture and Tourism of HCMC and the central provinces of Khanh Hoa and Binh Thuan.

The games will take place in Bali in Indonesia from October 18 to 26. Vietnam will participate in eight events, namely bodybuilding, volleyball, soccer, swimming, marathon, surfing, sepak takraw and pencat silat. Binh Thuan Province has contributed three athletes and one coach to the surfing team, the most popular water sport in Vietnam today.

Binh Thuan’s Mui Ne attracts Russian tourists

According to the general director of the Russian travel company Lanta-An, Klokov Igor Nikolaevich, the number of Russian visitors to Binh Thuan has increased since the opening of Lanta-An’s office in Mui Ne.

He said the company brings some 300 Russian visitors to Phan Thiet-Mui Ne per month, and the number could rise to 1,000 per month later this year when the weather becomes chilly in Russia.

The Hanoi-based Nhat Minh Tourism Company also brings Russian tourists to Mui Ne. Russians accounted for 11.3 percent of the 20,000 foreign visitors to Mui Ne in the first three months this year, according to figures from Binh Thuan Tourism Department.

Binh Thuan lures 2mil visitors in 2008

Binh Thuan also captured the attention of investors as demonstrated by 414 projects worth nearly VND42 trillion. Among them are a number of large projects featuring luxury services such as Hoa Vien Restaurant, Viet Tin Mineral Mud Center, Golden Valley, Sea Links and Princess d’Annam, bringing the total number of rooms to 5,000.
The province expects to welcome 2.3 million tourists next year and gain about 1.9 trillion in turnover.

Binh Thuan seeks demand stimulation solution for tourism

The central coast province of Binh Thuan plans to attract tourists by means of conferences and training courses, as a result of discussions at a conference held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

Accordingly, apart from international markets such as Russia, Japan, Australia, France, South Korea, Germany and Spain, the province’s tourism industry will focus on signing cooperation contracts for tourism development with Hanoi City and some northern provinces and cities.

An additional conference on “solutions to attract international tourists to Binh Thuan” hosted by Binh Thuan Investment and Trade-Tourism Promotion Center and Binh Thuan Tourism Association will take place on Friday.

Relevant departments and local tourism businesses, as well as representatives of major travel companies and airlines, such as Russia-based Transairo Airline and Vietnam Airline, and media agencies have been invited to the conference.

According to statistics of the association, the number of tourists, both domestic and international, visiting Binh Thuan in the last two months of this year shows a downward trend compared to the same period of previous years.