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According to Phu Quoc Express, island tourism is the priority choice of many tourists when summer comes or during the holidays. Going against the trend of luxury resorts at tourist-exploited beaches with full services and amenities, recently many people, especially young people, have prioritized choosing trips close to nature, exploring new lands with more wild beauty! And traveling by speedboat to Ly Son Island is an extremely suitable destination if you are looking for a pristine island as beautiful as an unpolished gem in the middle of nature.
Ly Son Island, with a total area of about 10km2, is an island district of Quang Ngai province. In recent years, Ly Son Island has emerged as an extremely HOT tourist destination in the Central region thanks to its clear and pure beauty. To get to Ly Son, you can take a speedboat from Sa Ky port with a total travel time of about 35 minutes. In July and August 2023, the Phu Quoc Express 2-body speedboat has a schedule to operate the Sa Ky - Ly Son route with 4 fixed trips to and from the island during the day, with a price of about 218,000 VND/person for tourists.
The sea in Ly Son is extremely blue and clean, you can easily see schools of fish swimming in the clear and emerald green water. In addition to the beautiful beaches, Ly Son Island also has many famous places that attract tourists to visit. Let's check it out with Phu Quoc Express!
1. Hang Cau Beach:
If you regularly watch game shows recently, you will surely be familiar with the place Hang Cau. Located at the foot of Thoi Loi mountain, it is a natural masterpiece formed by waves and sea winds eroding and carving deep into the mountain to form Hang Cau. According to word of mouth from the locals, it is called "Hang Cau" because the sea here has a lot of seaweed, a type of seaweed that can be processed into xu xoa (jelly), an attractive dessert and cooling dish. Some people also explain that the name "Hang Cau" is because there is a lot of seafood under the coral reefs, many people come here to fish, so this name was formed.
When visiting Hang Cau, you can enjoy games such as sup rowing, diving to see corals, canoeing, playing pencil boat, rowing basket boats, etc. The cool blue sea water combined with the long stretch of clean sand is also extremely suitable for organizing BBQ in the evening by the beach. Phu Quoc Express noticed that in Hang Cau, there are restaurants serving right on the beach, decorated very sparklingly with lots of lights and hammocks in a super romantic style. Talking about cuisine, the restaurants in this area are always ready to serve visitors super delicious dishes made from seafood, from snacks to full-fledged rice combos. Seaweed salad, steamed fresh squid, fried fish with garlic sauce, steamed moon snails, water spinach soup with squid, etc. are dishes that many visitors love when stopping to dine here.
2. Hang Pagoda:
Also known as Thien Khong Thach Tu Pagoda, Hang Pagoda is not far from the center of Ly Son Island. The pagoda is a natural cave located right at the foot of Thoi Loi Mountain, this is the largest cave in the cave system on Ly Son Island, built into a pagoda for locals and tourists to visit and pray for peace.
Hang Pagoda is located precariously on the mountainside, with a rocky cliff on one side and a long coastline on the other. The path to Hang Pagoda is very beautiful with a wide and majestic natural landscape. Following the steps will take you to Hang Pagoda below. Right in the temple yard, we can easily see a sky well, used to collect underground water flowing down from the cliff on the mountain. Visitors to Hang Pagoda often drink water from the sky well to pray for luck and blessings.
The gate of Hang Pagoda faces the sea with a beautiful lotus pond and a majestic statue of Quan Am. Stepping inside with the scent of incense and white smoke, it is the place of worship of the Three Worlds Buddha, Amitabha Three Venerables and the Three Saints of Flower Adornment, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Patriarch Bodhidharma, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell. In addition, there is an altar of the three founding elders, the founder of the Tran family and the seven predecessors of An Hai village so that future generations can remember their merits in opening up and building An Hai village as well as Ly Son island district.
On holidays and Buddhist festivals, Hang Pagoda welcomes a large number of locals and tourists! This is a sacred place with a long history of Ly Son. Hang Pagoda is likened to a paradise on earth that anyone who has the opportunity should visit once!
3. Thoi Loi Mountain:
If you visit Hang Cau and Hang Pagoda, you cannot miss Thoi Loi Mountain in Ly Son. Because these 3 beautiful places are closely related to each other geographically. Thoi Loi Mountain is located right above the top of Hang Pagoda and Hang Cau which were shared above this article!
It can be joked that out of 10 tourists visiting Ly Son, 9 will definitely take virtual photos at Thoi Loi Mountain. Why? Because this is a super beautiful and poetic place that you absolutely cannot miss when traveling to Ly Son. The road up to Thoi Loi Mountain is relatively steep but the scenery is extremely romantic, so beautiful that almost everyone can't help but stop for a moment to take souvenir photos. When you reach the top of the mountain, an extremely majestic scene will appear before your eyes, overwhelming you. It is a natural picture blending the vast ocean, the green mountains and forests, and in the distance is the Ly Son flagpole standing tall in the wind. The best time to visit Thoi Loi Mountain is at dawn and dusk. The reason is simple, imagine that you will have a lot of beautiful photos with the majestic mountains and rivers in the background combined with the sunrise or sunset? Too perfect, right?
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