Travel guide to Vung Tau
Located near the Ho Chi Minh City, Vung Tau owns many beautiful beaches and interesting destinations, so it is a suitable place for families, couples, or young people delights in the holidays or the weekend. Vietnam family packages today will help you to set plane for a tour for family in Vietnam in April.
1/ How to travel to Vung Tau:
Vung Tau city is only 100km away from Ho Chi Minh City so you can come here extremely easily. If you are far away, you can take a plane to Ho Chi Minh City, then take a car to Vung Tau only takes about 2 hours.
Note that if you go to the airport, you should choose an airline that has cars available at the airport to easily move to Vung Tau to save the cost you have to go to the bus station to buy tickets. Specifically, there are Jetstar and Vietjet Air at the cost of Saigon — Vung Tau about 150,000.
In case there is no car in Tan Son Nhat, you will need to travel by bus to buy tickets at the Eastern bus station about 60,000–80,000 VND. This ticket is extremely cheap compared to the amount of about 1,000,000 if moving by taxi.
You can also travel by Hydrofoil for about 200,000 VND / ticket/person. You can book tickets at Bach Dang wharf (1A Ham Nghi, District 1, HCMC) and choose whether to order round-trip or not.
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2/ Accommodations:
Except in case of overload on big holidays, generally in Vung Tau rarely cause you to worry about the accommodations. If you want to enjoy the incentives or avoid being forced high prices in the tourist season, you should book before the trip about 1–2 months.
If you do not know where to stay in Vung Tau, the experience of renting a room in Vung Tau to save costs is that you should not rent rooms in the resort by the sea, you would better choose the hotel away from the beach a bit. The rent at these hotels is about 300,000 VND / day.
3/ Destinations:
• Green Rock Lake
Green Rock Lake is one of the new places in Ba Ria — Vung Tau that very few people know but quickly became one of the beautiful shooting locations in Vung Tau. On the way to Mount Dinh, on the left there are many Exploit rock from Ba Ria to Chau Pha, green rock lake is a unique shooting point suitable for young people passionate about photography.
• Christ of Vung Tau
Coming to Vung Tau, on the sea, visiting many famous temple temples, the Christ of Vung Tau is also a religious site cannot be missed when visiting this beautiful city.
The statue of Christ is a 32m high statue of Jesus with two arms wide 18.4m wide with the capacity of about 100 people in the statue. And this is also the largest statue of God Kito in Asia.
• Lighthouse of Vung Tau
In the Vung Tau tourist trip, in addition to being delighted to play with the waves, admire the beautiful natural scenery, you are also conquered Vung Tau Lighthouse — one of the interesting attractions chosen by many visitors.
• Back Beach
Spreading nearly 10 km, located in southern Vung Tau, known as Thuy Van or Thuy Duong, Back Beach is known for one of the most beautiful beaches in Vietnam with the smooth white sand beach.
Back Beach has a stable year-round temperature, calm sea waves, the blue sea water, etc these make this beach have visitors to bath all year round. Running along the beach is Thuy Van street full of flowers, one side is the street with modern buildings, crowded, one side is beach full of entertainment services on the sea.
4/ Cuisine:
• Seafood
You should limit the purchase of seafood sold at the resorts, although always offered are fresh but the nearby seafood is often expensive and not as good as at the fishing spots of the fishermen.
Xom Luoi market on Phan Boi Chau street sells all kinds of seafood for you to choose. Finished sale, you can ask the seller to boil for 10,000 only
• Khot Cake
Enjoy the breakfast with the famous Khot cake is so perfect. You should eat at Tran Dong Street. The cake here is fried crispy, round, tasty low-fat oil. The owner is very friendly and welcoming. Price of 7 pieces is about 35,000.
• Hotpot Stingray
Hotpot Stingray is a popular dish when it comes to Vung Tau. To have a good hot pot dishes, select fresh fish, ordered from the owner of the boat in Ben Dinh, TP. Vung Tau. This dish will be an unforgettable experience for you when joining a family tour in Vung Tau.
