Send us your Feedback / Letter to the Editor Take a look at our Vietnam Map before diving further into our review of the best Vietnam resorts. The best beaches are along the southwest coast. Phu Quoc is about the size of Phuket with an array of hotels rising up along the sands. On Phu Quoc island, in the Gulf of Thailand there’s more white sand beach and a smattering of hotels. From here head on to Long Hai and the three-star offerings of Vung Tau. Just south of Phan Thiet is the emerging area of Ke Ga. The coast runs on past Quy Nhon and down to Phan Thiet and Mui Ne, the playground of Saigon's nouveau riche and frantically holidaying expatriate community. Vietnam beaches run north-south along the Pacific Ocean from Hue, Danang and the old port city of Hoi An to Nha Trang (which has gained a reputation as a dive centre though it is more of a beach town).
And while people around the world continue to misplace car keys, mobile phones, and even prime ministers, Vietnam chugs on serenely, at 30kph. It was perhaps a moment like this that enthralled Australian prime minister Harold Holt who waded out to sea and was never seen again. With the morning mist hanging over the water and low hills providing a backdrop to the curve of the bay, it is an alluring postcard setting. Danang's idyllic stretch of sand runs uninterrupted along a long, long coast, with a gentle drop-off and some decent surf. I pressed my camera shutter vigorously, demonstrating I am no slouch when it comes to testosterone.īeautiful Mui Ne Beach at sunrise/ photo: Vijay Vergheseīy 7am the local population had departed en masse leaving a few solitary bathers and some frolicking salty sea dogs. Men with heads attached to tree-trunks fell to the ground to do fifty push-ups if any damsel so much as glanced in their general direction.
Next morning I slipped onto the beach unnoticed at dawn, painfully aware of my neck, which looks like, well… a neck.
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It took a while then to get to Danang’s fabled China Beach, or My Khe in local parlance, which comes with the usual Baywatch accessories – professional lifeguards on certain stretches but not, alas, women with bodies like ripening corn. Slide Show E-mail Page Print Hotel Contacts Fail to spot it and camouflaged constabulary around the corner will pounce on you with glee demanding “tea money”, and thus are lives saved and wealth redistributed. Every once in a while an improvised speed limit – say 30kph – scrawled on a strip of cardboard will appear propped against a tree to trip unwary motorists. Fact is, speed kills, and the hard-working men in uniform are painfully aware of this. I pushed my eyeballs back into their sockets as we began our dizzying ascent from Lang Co, crossing the hump from Hue to Danang. Ubiquitous speed limit signs are set at 40kph when approaching a town, 50kph within the urban zone, and then mischievously at 80kph, even on switchback roads climbing up into vertiginous hills. Stray buffalos, wayward chickens and ducks sunning themselves on the asphalt all do their bit to slow things down.Ĭouple in red silk tunics promenade down Hoi An's main bridge/ photo: Vijay Verghese Highways in Vietnam are showpieces for belching trucks idling in long snaking lines, their unusual horns the only sign of contrapuntal remonstrance. JUMP TO Ha Long Bay | Hue Resorts | Hideaways in Lang Co | Danang | Hoi An | Nha Trang, Ninh Van, Cam Ranh Bay | Mui Ne and Phan Thiet, Ninh Hai | Phan Thiet area tours | Ke Ga Bay | Long Hai | Phu Quoc Island | Hotel ContactsĪS development dollars pour in and muscle highways streak through the verdant rice fields, Vietnam these days can be summed up in a single word – SPEED. SEE ALSO Bali resorts review | Hanoi Business Hotels | Saigon Business Hotels | Brunei | Phuket Resorts Review | Palawan | Bali Resorts Review | Sanya Guide | Maldives Resorts | Mergui Archipelago guide | Pattaya | Luang Prabang | Top Asian hotel reviews | Behind the scenes - Staycationsĭanang fishermen check their nets before a long cast, paddling out to sea in circular coracles that appear impossible to manage/ photo: Vijay Verghese
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