Nhatrang what to see

Institute of Oceanography
Location: Institute of Oceanography is located on an elevated land, at 1 Cau Da St., next

to Cau Da Wharf, about 6km from the centre of Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: Institute of Oceanography, which was established in 1923, was one of the first centres for scientific research in Vietnam.

Nha Trang is an excellent location for tropical oceanographic research because it is close to the ocean, of course, and the waters are deep.

The Marine Animal Museum shows more than 20,000 sea and freshwater specimens, as well as living creatures that are kept in glass tanks.

Dien Khanh Temple of Literature
Location: Dien Khanh Temple of Literature is located in Phu Loc Townlet, Dien Khanh

District, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: At the present, the Temple of Literature keeps only 2 steles aged by the 11th year of King Tu Duc which help us to further understand the history, the culture, the living style of Khanh Hoa people.
During the time of feudal Confucian tradition, high above there was Quoc Tu Giam (National Temple of Literature), under which were provincial Temples of Literature, where recorded the works of talented scholars. In 1803, King Gia Long announced a royal decree on building a Temple of Literature in Phu Loc Townlet, the district of Hoa Chau - nowadays is Dien Khanh District.
Going through all changes of time, this Temple of Literature rehabilitated 4 times in 1892, 1904, 1941, and 1959 and has still been in its original architecture.

At the present, the Temple of Literature keeps only 2 steles aged by the 11th year of King Tu Duc which help us to further understand the history, the culture, the living style of Khanh Hoa people, the completion of the Temple of Literature in 1854, and a introduction on the competition-examination success of local laureates, dignitaries, village notables, and students from the beginning of Nguyen Dynasty to Tu Duc Time. With such thickness of history, the Temple of Literature possesses a significant value of study, and tradition of respecting knowledge, which all enriches the nation's vestiges.

Alexandre Yersin Memorial Sites

Location:Alexandre Yersin Memorial Sites includes 3 places:

- Doctor Yersin's library in Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, Khanh Hoa Province.
- Linh Son Pagoda, Suoi Cat Commune, Dien Khanh District, Khanh Hoa Province (the former workroom of the doctor in Suoi Dau).
- Alexandre Yersin's Grave in Suoi Cat Commune, Dien Khanh District, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: Alexandre Yersin Memorial Sites was built to commemorate Alexandre Yersin who devoted 50 years of his life to work in Pasteur Institute.

Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943) was born in Switzerland to a Swiss father and a French mother. He studied in Switzerland and later moved to France where he obtained a degree in medicine.
He travelled to Nha Trang for the first time in 1891. At the end of 1899, he came back and established the Pasteur Institute. He devoted 50 years of his life to microbiology, virology, and epidemic research and he was the one to develop a vaccine against the bubonic plague.

Living modestly, he gained the trust of Con hamlet villagers. He travelled in the mountains and recorded his observations. He also recommended to the government to establish a hill station in what is now Dalat.

Yersin died in Nha Trang on 1 March 1943. According to the instructions in his will, his body was buried with his face touching the ground and facing the sea so that he could forever embrace his second homeland.

Landscape in Nha Trang

Cam Ranh Bay

Location: Cam Ranh Bay is in Cam Ranh Town, Khanh Hoa Province.

Characteristic: Cam Ranh Bay is regarded as one of three ports that have the best natural condition in the world with closed-area of 60km² and the average deep of 18-20m.

Mountains are surrounding so that the territorial waters are out of winter. Cam Ranh takes only an hour to International Maritime Line by seagoing vessel(Haiphong is 18 hours).
Trade port in Cam Ranh Bay is called Da Bac which is in Ba Ngoi Town, so it is also called Ba Ngoi Port.

Con Se Tre Tourist Site
Location: Opposite and 3km away from Nha Trang Coast, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: Just 15 minutes by boat, you will be able to arrive at "Con Se Tre". From a stone island, now "Con Se Tre" was converted into one of the most poetic tourism resorts in Nha Trang City.
Tourists can find at Con Se Tre a lively image of old villages, which once and for all have appeared in our dreams today or your childhood in a peaceful space, clean seashore, poetic settings, traditional customs and perfect services.

Dai Lanh Beach
Location: Dai Lanh Beach is situated in Van Ninh District, 80km north of Nha Trang, close to the National Highway 1A.
Characteristic: Dai Lanh is one of the most beautiful beaches with wonderful nature: white and mostly sand along with casuarinas.
Long time ago, Dai Lanh Beach with beautiful nature had been ranked one of the famous landscapes in Vietnam. Dai Lanh Beach has calm, clear blue water as well as soft, white sand (offering safe swimming conditions). A fresh water source runs from the bottom of a mountain through the beach.
Dai Lanh scenery had been carved on one of the Nine Urns which is standing in front of The Mieu yard in Hue by King Minh Mang. Dai Lanh Beach, visitors can travel to the fishing villages in Khai Luong and Dam Mon.

Doc Let Beach
Location: Doc Let Beach is situated on the Ninh Hoa coastal area, 50km north of Nha Trang.
Characteristic: It has long white sand dunes of tens meters high with pine trees separate the main land from the sea.

Overcome to sand dune, visitors will step on a very wonderful beach with fine sand and contemplate expanses of sand along the seaside of 10km long with pure blue clear sea-water and thousands of light waves inshore. Coming to Doc Let, visitors will have a chance to visit a fishing village, Hon Khoi salt-field, Hon Khoi Cement Factory, Heo Island- an old base with many glorious victories of people in Khanh Hoa through two wars against French and American.

Fairies' Stream
Location: Fairies' Stream is located in the south of Dien Khanh District, more than 20km from Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: It current starts from Hon Ba Mountain, then flows down gorges, surrounding trees and crossing valleys; before flowing down to Suoi Cat Commune, the stream meets a natural dam and divides into two branches.

One goes to the north to the rice fields and another overflowing a hard rock, platform to the east, joining the Cai River.
The charming scenery has given birth to many legends; fairies would leave Heaven to come bathing at the stream. Male deity played chess on stone blocks. Foot prints left by a giant who, in a moment of enchantment when seeing the fairies swimming, slipped and nearly fell down into the water.

Festival in Nha Trang

Thap Ba - Po Nagar Festival
Time: 20th to the 23rd day of the third lunar month.
Place: Vinh Phuoc Ward, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: The Goddess of the Region (the Cham).
Characteristics: Rites: washing statue and clothes changing, offering dance to Goddess, ghe racing, boi singing at night.

The Po Nagar Festival is biggest religious festival in the region, is held at Po Nagar Tower

which located on the hill near the mouth of Cai River, north of Nha Trang City. The festival is organize to commemorate the Mother of the Region who according to Cham legends, created the homeland, maintained race, discoved rice tree, taught people how to cultivate. The Goddess of the Cham had become the Goddess of the Vietnamese inhabitants .The festival involves the singing and dancing to welcome people, stage performance and many fun games take place joyfully in the front of the main temple

Ecology in Nha Trang

Ba Ho Spring
Location: Ba Ho Spring is located 25km north of Nha Trang, Ninh Hoa District, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: The spring has its source on the peak of the Hon Son Mountain, at an altitude of 660m.

The spring flows from the mountain to the sea, three times broadening its bed creating three lakes: Ho Nhat, Ho Nhi, Ho Ba. The natural landscape is of utmost interest, and it is a very attractive sight for tourism...

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