If you are preparing for yourself a schedule to explore the sunny and windy land of Ninh Thuan, do not forget to refer to the following useful experiences in your Phan Rang tour.
Phan Rang is like the heart of Ninh Thuan when it is located in the center of the province, the junction linking the region between Lam Dong, Binh Thuan, and Khanh Hoa provinces. Not only has the coast more than 10km long, but Phan Rang tourism also has many conditions to develop forms of resort tourism, sports tourism activities on the sea such as sailing boats, kiteboards, coral diving … Owning 1 of 13 deepwater bays in the country.
Surrounding the city is a series of famous destinations of Ninh Thuan such as Vinh Hy, Nam Cuong sand hill, Nui Chua National Park … which are connected with the center by a convenient transportation system.
When should I travel to Phan Rang?
The most appropriate time to travel Phan Rang is the period of September of September of the year, at this time the weather is quite cool, not too hot, not too cold, very pleasant, convenient for you to travel. visit and discover Phan Rang most fully.
You can visit Phan Rang at any time of the year because the weather here is always beautiful
In addition, Phan Rang has a quite pleasant climate, so you can also travel to Phan Rang at any time of the year.
How to move when traveling to Phan Rang
Road
Phan Rang – Thap Cham city is located on the main traffic axis North – South – Central Highlands, with two national highways running across: National Highway 1A (North – South), Highway 27 to Dalat City and Western Provinces. So the travel is relatively convenient.
Traveling by road is the choice of many people
High quality bus to Phan Rang Thap Cham departs every day from Mien Dong bus station, Saigon. For those from Hanoi and the North, you can use the North-South long-distance bus routes and stop at the places you want to get off.
Rail
Located on the North-South railway line with Thap Cham station as one of the main stations, most of the Thong Nhat trains run through and stop here. From Hanoi, trains SE3, SE5, SE7 and SE9 depart from Hanoi and stop at Thap Cham Station, travel time will be from 27-30 hours. The most suitable trains for Ninh Thuan travel will be the SE5 departing from Hanoi at 8:50 am and arriving at Thap Cham at 12:43 the next day, SE7 departing from Hanoi at 6:00 am and arriving at Thap Cham at 10:02 the next day.
Alternatively, you can also travel by rail with the North-South line
Similarly from Saigon, Thong Nhat SE2, SE6, SE8, SE10 and SE22 trains also stop at Thap Cham, in addition there are 2 trains running Nha Trang, SNT2 and SNT4, also stop here, travel time is only about 5-8 hours. The most suitable trains are SE6 departing from Saigon at 8:45 and arriving at Thap Cham at 14:25, SE8 departing from Saigon at 6:00 and arriving at Thap Cham at 11:48, SE22 departing from Saigon at 11:40 and arriving at Thap Cham at 17h39.
Airline
Ninh Thuan currently has Thanh Son airport, but this is a military airport, not yet used in civil exploitation. If you want to Ninh Thuan, you can use flights to Cam Ranh, Khanh Hoa. The airport is about 60km from the center of Phan Rang – Thap Cham and Vinh Hy Bay.
Traveling by plane is not a bad choice, if your schedule is limited
Everyday from Hanoi, there are direct flights to Cam Ranh of Vietjet, VietnamAirlines and Bamboo, the round-trip fare ranges from 2000-3000k with a flight time of about 2 hours. From Saigon the flight time will be shorter (about 1 hour) and the ticket price is only fluctuating around 1000k.
Private vehicles
For those who plan to run across many provinces, you can use your private vehicle to get to Ninh Thuan. From Hanoi, you just stick along Highway 1A, passing Cam Ranh is to the territory of Ninh Thuan only.
If you are adventurous and enjoy the freedom, then traveling by private vehicle is a perfect suggestion
From Saigon, with a distance of about 350km, it will take you about 7-8 hours to travel to Phan Rang – Thap Cham. With personal means, you will be more active, if you have more time, you can freely explore this sunny and windy land.
Where to stay when traveling to Phan Rang?
Where should Phan Rang travel? In Phan Thiet, there are many types of accommodation, from high-end hotels, resorts, budget motels to super-nice-designed homestays. Homestay is a type of accommodation that is loved by young people, however, homestays are often far from the city center or tourist attractions, so I recommend choosing hotels near the city center. will be convenient for you to travel and go to night market.
Famous sights in Phan Rang
Traveling to Phan Rang, where to go and where to play? Phan Rang is famous for many beautiful landscapes and ideal entertainment activities. Traveling to Phan Rang, you must definitely go to the following places:
PoKlông Garai Tower
Po Klong Garai Tower is the common name for a cluster of the most majestic and beautiful Cham towers remaining in Vietnam. Po Klong Garai Tower is a complex of three towers: main tower (20.5m high), fire tower (9.31m high), gate tower (8.56m high). This work has the highest level of architecture, art, sculpture.
Po Klong Garai Tower is the most majestic and beautiful Cham tower cluster remaining in Vietnam (Photo: @hatrangngo)
The tower is located on Trau hill, in Do Vinh ward, 9 km northwest of Phan Rang – Thap Cham city center, built in the late 13th and early 14th century (during the time of King Shihavaman, the Vietnamese called Che. Man) to worship King Po Klong Garai (1151-1205), who made great contributions to the rule of the country.
Binh Son beach
Binh Son Beach – one of the most beautiful beaches in Phan Rang (Photo: @mitraan)
Binh Son Beach has clear blue water, fine white sand, fresh air … very suitable for organizing outdoor activities, sports, swimming … to meet the needs of enjoying, playing, awarding location of locals and tourists.
Ninh Chu Beach
Ninh Chu Beach is honored as one of the beautiful beaches of Central Vietnam (Photo: @ciumoon_)
Ninh Chu Beach stretches from Phan Rang City – Thap Cham to Ninh Hai District. Ninh Chu Beach is honored as one of the beautiful beaches of the Central region with its 10 km long arc-shaped beach, clear blue water, smooth golden sand, and a fresh, quiet atmosphere.
Ba Moi Vineyard
About 7km from Phan Rang – Thap Cham, but Uncle Ba Moi’s vineyard in Phuoc Thuan commune is always bustling every day welcoming tourists from near and far to visit and explore.
Ba Moi vineyard is always bustling daily welcoming tourists from near and far to visit and explore. (Photo: @ haru240617)
All visitors to the vineyard have a chance to eat grapes, drink syrup, and wine for free and talk to Uncle Ba Moi. Uncle Ba often shares with visitors how to recognize Ninh Thuan grapes with other imported grapes, how to make grape wine and the benefits brought by Ninh Thuan grape wine.
Along the coast of Binh Tien
Driving on Binh Tien coastal road about 20km long, you will have the feeling of touching the mountain, hand with the sea, the sound of wind mixing with the sound of waves. There’s no reason to ignore this wonderful experience.
The coastal road of Binh Tien is the most beautiful sea road in Phan Rang (Photo: @ linh_mochi38)
Or visit a village of Bau Truc, the oldest Cham pottery village in Southeast Asia. Here, you will learn the customs of the people here, you also have the opportunity to practice carving patterns on ceramic with seemingly discarded objects such as bottle caps, toy wheels …
Ninh Thuan Museum
Ninh Thuan Museum is a place to keep cultural and historical heritages of ethnic groups in the province such as Kinh, Cham, Raglai, Hoa, Churu, K’ho…. It is preserving and displaying thousands of valuable artifacts collected about the culture and history of the resistance war of the army and people of the province.
Ninh Thuan Museum is a place to keep artifacts of cultural – historical heritage of ethnic groups in the province (Photo: @ tuz.x)
Exhibits displayed are very rich, unique, unique and creative of the people of the province about the traditional cultures of the ethnic groups …
Ninh Thuan night market
Located in the heart of Phan Rang – Thap Cham city, Ninh Thuan night market is considered a highlight for domestic and foreign tourists who want to explore and enjoy unique dishes.
Ninh Thuan night market is considered a highlight for domestic and foreign tourists who want to explore and enjoy unique dishes.
The market is located on Tran Quang Dieu Street and has more than 100 stalls on display for sale to visitors, mainly consumer products, souvenirs, traditional handicraft products, drinking water, banh can, pancakes. , children toy…
An Hoa sheep field
An Hoa sheep field has a very large number of herds, from a few hundred to a thousand, young people love to come here to checkin (Photo: @ phongwind_09091996)
An Hoa sheep field is located in An Hoa village, Xuan Hai commune. This place has a very large number of herds, from a few hundred to a thousand. When you come here, visitors can watch the flock of sheep, admire the majestic nature, have rice with farmers and explore the techniques of breeding and shearing.
Rai Cave
Located about 30km northeast of Phan Rang – Thap Cham City, Cave Rai is an ecotourism destination in Nui Chua National Park that is known by many tourists as an ideal tourist destination bestowed by nature. the land of Ninh Thuan. Here, the first impression to visitors is the stacked rocks with fancy shapes creating wild and majestic caves.
Rai Cave is an ecotourism destination of Nui Chua National Park that is being visited by a large number of tourists every year (Photo: @bichphuongbae)
After soaking in the clear blue water of the sea, visitors can rest on the rocks, watch the waves of the white sea, enjoy delicious homemade seafood. If you like to explore and love adventure, you can cross a few rocks, wriggle through a few caves, admire the dead coral reefs lying in the waves with convex and concave cliffs creating large caves. , small, different, formerly the home of otters.
Vinh Hy Bay
42km northeast of Phan Rang – Thap Cham city, Vinh Hy bay is located in the middle of Vinh Hy Village, Vinh Hai commune. This is a place that retains many wild features gifted by generous nature with a beautiful, majestic landscape including surrounding white sand beaches, towering rocky mountains, and murmuring streams. weaving among the immense green trees.
Vinh Hy Bay is a complex of beautiful and majestic landscapes including surrounding white sand beaches, towering rocky mountains (Photo: @ nikitawillyofficial94)
Here visitors can swim, swim, fish, breathe fresh air, explore caves, forests; admire the beauty of the rocky mountains or visit the beautiful scenery of Vinh Hy Bay by boat, canoe, rock climbing, camping, visit the ancient war zone CK19, watch corals by glass bottom boat or watch sea turtles spawn in moonlit nights.
Nam Cuong sand dunes
Located about 8 km southeast of Phan Rang – Thap Cham city, Nam Cuong sand hill with an area of 700 hectares is an interesting destination that visitors cannot ignore when coming to Ninh Thuan. Many people compare Nam Cuong sand hill to the beauty of a young woman nestled behind villages, bamboo baskets, and immense vine fields.
Nam Cuong Sand Dunes is an interesting destination that visitors cannot miss when coming to Ninh Thuan (Photo: @ntt_thutra)
Located in the inhabited area of the Cham community, sand dunes are an integral part of the Cham life here. Every day, the Cham people travel on the sand dunes to go to the beach, to the fields, to school, to the market or to the church…. It can be said that all activities in their daily life are associated with this sand hill.
Water sports activities when traveling to Phan Rang
Kite surfing
At Ninh Chu beach, the sea surface is calm, the average wind speed reaches 17 knots, especially suitable for kite surfing. The Kiteboarder magazine has voted Ninh Thuan as the leading international destination for kite surfing.
Surf
Surfing is a water sport in which the player winds up or against the waves, allowing the waves to push the player towards the shore. Similar to kite surfing, Ninh Thuan is also very suitable to play this sport.
Banana boat
This is a game that if you go crowded, you can team up to try, a banana-shaped float will be dragged away at high speed by the canoe will take the group of friends to surf the sea with the feeling of floating.
Dive and see coral
With a snorkeling goggles, a life jacket and your own swimming ability, you can comfortably dive to see corals in shallow seas.
What to eat when traveling to Phan Rang?
What to eat when traveling to Phan Rang? Since it is a sea tourism, you should enjoy the unique seafood dishes here. In addition to seafood, you should enjoy other delicious dishes in Phan Rang such as: banh can, banh xeo, Phan Rang jelly noodle …
Ninh Thuan Seafood
Coming to Phan Rang, you must definitely enjoy the seafood dishes here
Ninh Thuan’s waters have a variety of seafood species such as crab, crab, squid, snail, snail, velvet snail, cockle, oyster, scallop, oyster,…. Depending on your preference, you can ask the restaurant to cook the way you like to grill, boil, steam or grill the onion fat as you like.
Phan Rang chicken rice
Phan Rang chicken rice is cooked with sticky rice, fragrant. Before cooking, the rice is washed, seasoned with ginger, crushed garlic to create aroma. Want to have an eye-catching plate of rice, often the cook adds a little turmeric powder. Chicken cut into medium sized pieces. This dish is served hot with some coriander, cucumber and sweet and sour fish sauce, mixed with salt and chili.
Phan Rang Chicken Rice – a famous dish in the city of Phan Rang
Another special sauce that should be added is the wort, a unique sauce only available in Phan Rang. Also garlic is ginger, but we add a little wort of wine and sugar to create a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Sour in rice to reduce greasy dryness. Phan Rang chicken rice must be eaten with laksa leaves to “correct the song”, perhaps lettuce is especially suitable for chicken, so the more you eat it, the more delicious it is.
Can cake
Can Cake is extremely simple and easy to make, does not need sophisticated ingredients, is difficult to find, does not need to go through many stages of processing, just a little skillful you can make the cakes. tasty.
To have a delicious cake can, people often use round grain rice, local rice that must be as old rice as possible. The unique point is that the cake can be poured with earthen molds, made from the talented hands of Cham Bau Truc potters.
Banh Can – a famous dish of the whole region
Particularly, the sauce of this cake in Phan Rang is also quite special. Gourmets will blend into their bowl all four types of sauces including: sweet and sour fish sauce, peanut sauce, fish sauce and braised fish sauce with cantaloupe.
Vermicelli with wedge sauce
Different from beef vermicelli bowl, hot noodle bowl and many nutrients … Bun seasoned noodles is a quite simple dish but full of appeal and strange to most people. In this dish, the important highlight is from seasoning fish sauce, this is a dish that Phan Rang people make to eat in long rough seas, in rainy weather, it is impossible to go to the market.
Vermicelli with seasoning sauce – a popular dish of the people of Phan Rang
The sweetness of meat, the aroma of raw vegetables, the spicy taste of chili, the strong taste of garlic, the sour taste of aroma and lemon … combined with the characteristic seasoning fish flavor, create a very attractive dish for all. everybody.
Noodles jellyfish
Jellyfish meat is not only delicious, crunchy, typical, but also has high nutritional value. A bowl of delicious jellyfish vermicelli consists of vermicelli, fresh jellyfish, quail eggs, tofu, dotted with green cilantro and sprinkled with a few peanuts.
Jellyfish noodle soup, a specialty of Ninh Thuan people
This dish is eaten with banana corn, grated spinach, raw bean sprouts and most importantly, fish sauce.
Fish cake soup
The first difference of Phan Rang cake soup is in the cake. There are places to make banh canh with filter flour, others use rice flour for processing, but when processing, the cake looks big and thick. In Phan Rang, banh canh fiber is just bigger than normal noodles.
Fish cake soup
The second difference is probably the factor that makes up the characteristic flavor of this dish. That is broth. There are places that use the well-filtered pork bone broth as broth, but the Phan Rang cake broth is completely cooked from fish. Many types of fish are used such as paddy fish, barracuda, virtual mackerel … after being cleaned, cut off the head, remove the meat, use bone to simmer for water.
Fish noodles with fish sauce in Ninh Chu
Ninh Chu fish noodles – a unique delicious dish of Ninh Chu beach
One of the delicious and unique dishes of Ninh Chu, many tourists seek to enjoy. The vermicelli dish is richly processed, the fish is fresh and chewy, combined with the sweet taste of the broth. This noodle dish is quite popular and can be easily found along the sidewalks.
Phan Rang duck cake
Phan Rang duck cake has a round shape, the cake flour fits into a small bowl, the cake consists of three main parts which are the crust made from rice flour, topped with the cake made of pureed shrimp, a mixture where the fish sauce is into the main portion and often poured directly into the cake without dots. To make the cake more attractive, people often add a little onion fat and pureed green beans.
Phan Rang duck cake
The difference of Phan Rang water fern cake with banh beo in other places is its small size, hot temperature, white color, pliable, served with peanut sauce, eye-catching red orange color mixed with a little seasoning sauce.
Quang Phan Rang Noodles
Noodles Quang Phan Rang
If someone has once enjoyed Phan Rang noodles, they will be surprised to see the difference between Quang and Phan Rang noodles. Different from noodles to taste, pork rolls …
Grape Ninh Thuan
It can be said that Ninh Thuan’s climate and conditions are very suitable for vines to grow and develop. Ninh Thuan grapes harvested three crops / year, has a more specific flavor than other grapes.
Grape Ninh Thuan – Famous fruit of the country
With a slightly sour sweet taste, thin skin and seeds, when enjoying, you will definitely remember forever. There are different varieties, but the two famous ones are red and green. Red grapes are spherical, when ripe, the skin has a red or crimson color, which is very beautiful. Green grapes have thicker skin than red grapes, and when ripe, the fruits turn green and yellowish.
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Lamb
Sheep is a famous specialty of the whole Ninh Thuan province
Sheep is a famous specialty of Ninh Thuan that is processed into delicious dishes such as grilled sheep, roasted sheep, lamb rolls, lamb curry, sheep hot pot … which are loved by many tourists when traveling to Ninh Thuan.
Fish salad
Fish salad is available in the sea areas of Ninh Chu, Vinh Hy or Ca Na, most of them can easily find a restaurant serving this dish strongly flavored with sea. There are two types of apricot fish salad: dry salad and wet salad.
Fish salad – a delicious dish with bold flavors of the sea
When eating dried apricot fish salad, customers squeeze more lemon juice for cooked fish, mix with chopped herbs, roasted peanuts and scoop each piece with grilled rice paper. As for the wet fish salad, pickle the fish in a special sauce, made with peanuts and some other spices, rolled with rice paper with herbs.
Thunderstorms
The dishes from Thunder are the favorite choice of diners when visiting Phan Rang
Thunderstorms are reptiles that live in caves on hot sandy areas. The main food of the thunderstorm is young shoots from cacti, weeds. Local people set traps or dug them in underground caves about 1.5m deep. Thunderstorm meat is fragrant, white like chicken, very sweet, firm, bones are very soft but the skin is crispy.
Phan Rang specialties bought as gifts
A sunny ink
Phan Rang squid is fragrant, soft and sweet because of its unique taste. Different from normal dried squid, in order to have a sunny squid, one has to choose squid from the squids brought back from the sea and still fresh, to wash the squid with sea water and then dry only once in the sun. .
A sunny ink
The squid drying is also a great feat to make the squid’s body completely dry, but the inside of the squid meat is still fresh and when grilled, the squid is still fresh, the meat is fragrant and white.
Grape wine
Ninh Thuan is famous as a land for delicious grapes so the wine grapes here are also considered to be the ultimate goods, as a treasure of the vine grower. The most famous brands here are Para Hill, Hai Dau, Phan Rang grape wine, Ninh Thuan grape wine.
Phan Rang Garlic
The land of Phan Rang has a harsh climate but it is quite suitable for cultivation and development of this quite useful agricultural product in life. Phan Rang Garlic is not big, its skin is very white, has a small core and many shrimp, has a spicy and fragrant flavor, has become a famous specialty brand in the country. The farmer harvests then is dried, does not use preservatives, so it is very safe to use.
Phan Rang Garlic
One of the interesting things is that in the vast fields of ordinary garlic, they often harvest a very precious single-bulb garlic. Another name is lonely garlic or orphan garlic (this type of garlic is only available in Ly Son and Phan Rang) because there is only one clove, which is used to soak in alcohol as medicine to cure many diseases.
Ca Na fish sauce
Ca Na commune is close to the sea, ready with salt, more fish, more sunshine and wind in Ninh Thuan, so it meets all favorable conditions to become a famous fish sauce area. Standard Ca Na fish sauce will have a dark amber brown color, characteristic aroma, the highest protein content of 30, not too harsh in the style of Phu Quoc fish sauce, medium salty taste, long aftertaste.
Salt with Ca Na seeds
Ca Na salt grain is favored by consumers because of its rich and savory taste. The delicious Ca Na fish sauce is famous from near and far, thanks in part to this salt grain.
Notes when traveling to Phan Rang
- You should prepare adequate medicine, sunscreen … when traveling to Phan Rang .
- You can buy grapes and grape products, as well as handicraft products as gifts for relatives and friends.
- Phan Rang tourist season is very crowded, you should book a hotel room, bus ticket a week before going.
No one can deny Phan Rang and Phan Thiet are “paradise” isolated from smog, loud sirens or noisy urban places. Phan Rang travel experience already exists, so why don’t you enjoy this paradise?
With the sharing of cheap travel experiences in Phan Rang 2020, we hope to help you with your upcoming trip. If you are planning to travel to Phan Rang, do not hesitate anymore, because Phan Rang this season is very beautiful!
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