Experience the raw beauty of Mai Nha Island in central Vietnam

Mai Nha is part of Phuoc Dong Village in Tuy An District’s An Hai Commune. The 1.2-square-kilometer island has rocky mountains, caves and long beaches.Phu Yen Province is between March and August when the sea is calm and the weather is sunny. Here is a series of photos taken by a traveller, Nguyen Thanh Tuan, on May 2. An Hai Pier is where visitors can get boats from the mainland to the island. Some boat owners, who used to be fishermen, take visitors to the island at any time of the day in their wooden boats for VND50,000 ($2) per person. Other options for travelers to choose from are motorboats, which costs VND100,000 – 150,000 ($4.3-6.4) for a round trip, and renting canoes for VND300,000 ($13). After traveling for nearly 2 km, the first thing tourists can see are a long white sand beach and a fence of tall pine trees (Casuarina equisetifolia). Since boats cannot come close to shore, Ngo Thinh (left), a fisherman who has lived on the island for more than 20 years, uses a coracle to transfer passengers from them to shore and vice versa, Nguyen Thanh Tuan (right ) said. The beach has smooth white sand, clear and shallow water and coral reefs. Since the waves are… Read full this story

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