Places not to be missed when coming to Quang Ngai

Crystal clear beaches, cool green grasslands, rare cloud-hunting passes and salt fields with a hundred-year history are places not to be missed when coming to Quang Ngai .

With a 129 km long coastline, Quang Ngai contains many rich natural heritages and many clear blue beaches, attracting domestic and foreign tourists. Quang Ngai's climate is divided into two distinct seasons: sunny season and dry season with an average temperature of 25-27 degrees Celsius.

Although the climate in some other provinces tends to increase in the next few months, Quang Ngai still maintains cool temperatures, not too harsh sunlight in the summer with daytime temperatures around 33 degrees Celsius.

Znews suggests some ideal places to have fun these summer days, promising to make you have fun and experience new things.

Welcome the sunrise, hunt clouds at Violak Pass

This location is on Highway 24, connecting Kon Tum province with Quang Ngai. With a road length of about 50 km, the pass winds through many mountains and valleys, the peak of the pass is more than 1,300 m above sea level, so there are many clouds and dense fog. The wild and fresh scenery makes this place an ideal cloud hunting spot for those who love to travel.

Violak Pass is an ideal cloud hunting location, no less than Da Lat. Photo: Sang Ho Nguyen, @tronghuutrong_.

Following the winding road, visitors will encounter a natural landscape as charming as paradise. On one side is a steep mountainside, decorated with green, red, yellow, purple colors from grass and wildflowers along the road, on the other side are green valleys interspersed with canals. Especially in the early morning, when dawn breaks, the sunlight slowly spreads across the distant mountain pass, along with the white clouds, making Violak Pass like a simple but lyrical natural painting.

Standing on the top of the pass in the early morning, the best time is between 6-8am, you will admire the rare landscape when the clouds float in front of you. The sun climbs high, causing the fog to gradually dissipate, the feeling is hard to describe when you are alone with the earth and sky.

Enjoy a day out on the cool beach

For many tourists, summer is the ideal time to go to the beach to relieve the heat. Quang Ngai will not disappoint tourists because Mother Nature has endowed this land with crystal clear beaches and a rich natural marine life that will make everyone fall in love.

▸ Ly Son Island

Coming to Ly Son Island, visitors can take photos, kayak and dive to see coral. Photo: Van Nguyen.

Located about 30 km from the mainland, visitors can reach Ly Son by speedboat from Sa Ky port. This island district has an area of ​​about 10.39 km2, including 2 main islands: Be Island (Bo Bai Islet) and Lon Island (Ly Son or Re Islet).

A special feature on Big Island is To Vo Gate, a natural wonder created from volcanic lava millions of years ago. Sunset is the ideal time for visitors to capture the most beautiful moments. Nearby is Cau Cave with towering cliffs and emerald green beaches. The name "Cau Cave" comes from the seaweed surrounding the cliffs. Here, visitors can go snorkeling or kayaking.

Small Island, also known as An Binh Island Commune, is only 3 nautical miles from Big Island but still retains its wild beauty because it has not been exploited much. Therefore, the scenery here is breathtakingly beautiful, making anyone who sets foot here fall in love. Visitors can choose to take a wooden boat for about 30 minutes, or if they want to go faster, they can travel by canoe for about 10 minutes.

Hon Mu Cu attracts tourists thanks to its wild natural beauty and picturesque scenery. This place has the most beautiful sunrise viewing spot on the island, so visitors should wake up early to catch the first rays of the day. Bai Ngang is also one of the popular check-in locations in Ly Son, attracting tourists by its natural and peaceful beauty. The famous activity here is diving to see coral, where visitors can see colorful fish and diverse coral reefs.

▸ Go Co Village

Rowing bamboo boats and walking through ancient Cham roads are the main activities in Go Co Village. Photo: Quach Minh Tien.

Located about 60 km south of Quang Ngai city, this place belongs to Pho Thanh ward, Duc Pho town, bringing the rustic and simple beauty of a village with the Sa Huynh culture of the Cham Pa people who once lived there.

If you love trekking activities, visitors should not miss the ancient Cham stone road. On this route, you will encounter a natural forest ecosystem that is rarely found anywhere else, such as date palms, bamboo trees, guava, spiny o ro, choi... In hot weather, to avoid heatstroke and exhaustion, visitors should depart early in the morning or late in the afternoon.

The beach here is famous for its clear blue water and fine white sand. The ancient rocks with strange shapes such as elephants, warriors, dinosaur egg beaches... are ideal places for taking photos. At the same time, this place is also the habitat of many marine species such as oysters, fish, snails, squid...

To fully experience the beauty of the 250-400 million year old rock formations, visitors can rent a rowing boat. Local fishermen are happy to share the proud history of the people of Go Co village during the war years.

▸ Swallow Cave

Hang En still retains its original wild beauty, making it an ideal place for young people to take photos. Photo: @thamin98.

Coming to Quang Ngai, visitors should not miss a seascape with a towering cave jutting out into the sea. En Cave is located in Vinh Thuy village, Pho Chau commune, Duc Pho district, 70 km east of the city center. The sounds of waves, wind, and chirping birds make En Cave mesmerizing.

Because few people know about it, the landscape here is still wild, deserted and peaceful. Looking up from below, the swallow nests clinging to the crevices of the rocks look like beautiful limestone stalactites. Although there are not many tourist activities, you can take pictures on the cliffs overlooking the vast sea and sky or eat and camp here as you like. Visitors should note not to litter after eating and drinking to preserve the landscape and environment here.

Camping all day at Bui Hui grassland

The green grasslands under the sun, the beautiful vast wild valley are the highlights of Bui Hui grassland. This place is located about 60 km southwest of the center, attracting many tourists who want to camp here every weekend. Not only that, because of its location at an altitude of about 700 m above sea level, visitors can be completely assured of the temperature in the area, no sun, cool climate.

You can freely participate in outdoor activities such as kite flying, camping, eating, etc. This place has also become a "cloud hunting" coordinate that attracts young people no less than Da Lat or Ta Xua.

With its cool climate, Bui Hui grassland is a camping and cloud hunting spot amidst majestic mountains. Photo: Minh Ngoc Nguyen.

In particular, in the summer around the end of May to August, Bui Hui grassland overwhelms visitors with the beauty of dreamy purple with 20-hectare silver sim hills. Besides, around the third lunar month, the guava hills begin to ripen and spread their fragrance throughout the area, attracting birds to chirp all day long. It can be said that this is a place where heaven and earth meet, allowing you to forget all the worries in life and immerse yourself in nature.

Check-in at Sa Huynh salt fields

If you have set foot in Quang Ngai, tourists should not miss the Sa Huynh salt fields which are more than 100 years old. Different from the usual beautiful landscape, this place has experienced many ups and downs in history when the harvest did not meet the prospect and the brand value had no place in the locality.

It was not until 2011 that the Intellectual Property Office granted the “Sa Huynh Salt” certificate that everything changed and has developed to this day. Coming here, visitors will learn more about the salt making work of local people.

Sa Huynh salt fields are a unique and rare feature in Quang Ngai. Photo: Sa Huynh Traditional Sea Salt Cooperative & Community Tourism.

With more than 120 hectares of salt fields, each field is interspersed with another, this place has become a must-see destination for tourists. The concrete and silver foil create a unique color reflection effect, turning this beautiful scene into a space that sparkles like diamonds, attracting all eyes.

The image of people working hard to make salt, mounds of salt piled up, and the sparkling golden sunlight shining down on the fields, creates a strangely simple and charming beauty.

To get the best photos, you should go from the third lunar month to the eighth solar month every year. On sunny days, the salt industry can produce the best, visiting during the rainy season and cloudy weather will not be recommended. Above all, the best time to fully enjoy the poetic and romantic beauty of this place is at dawn 5-6 am or sunset around 16-18 pm.

Minh Vu/ Znews

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