If you want to know which places are beautiful, which are delicious foods, and what is the ideal time to travel, you should immediately refer to the detailed Ly Son travel experience below.
Overview of Ly Son Island
Ly Son is an island district separated from Binh Son district of Quang Ngai province since 1992, with an area of nearly 10 km², has more than 20 thousand inhabitants and becomes the only island district in the northeast of Quang Ngai. mainland 15 nautical miles (about 30km).
Ly Son Island was formed after seismic tectonics 23-30 million years ago, and the 5 mountains on the main island are the remains of a 5-crater volcano that erupted, forming the main underground water courses, providing living water for the entire population on the island. 
Romantic sunset on Ly Son Island (Photo @ xuu_6799)
Ly Son island district consists of 2 main islands: Lon Island (Ly Son or Cu Lao Re because it was an island with a lot of Re trees) and Be Island (Cu Lao Bo Bai) and Mu Cu island, copper. At the time, there were 3 communes: An Vinh, An Hai and An Binh.
Not only a famous tourist destination in Quang Ngai , Ly Son also has an important position in terms of security and defense, because it is located closest to the Hoang Sa archipelago, so it is always very important.
Travel experience Ly Son: The ideal time to visit
Ly Son is divided into two distinct seasons, the dry season from March to August and the rainy season from September to February next year.
Accordingly, the dry season is the ideal time to travel to Ly Son because the weather is warm, the sky is clear, high and rarely rains, which will be very convenient for sightseeing and experience. under your water. Moreover, during this period, there was a long ceremony to swear the Hoang Sa soldiers on March 18, 19 and 20 of the third lunar month, extremely crowded and bustling.
The dry season is very beautiful (Photo @ arisa283)
But because it is the peak time of tourism, the number of tourists is very large, followed by the hostel and the flight or train ticket can quickly run out and increase the price, so if you intend to travel this time, then Please book early.
According to the experience of Ly Son tourism of many people going ahead, in the rainy season, especially in December is the time to harvest the famous Ly Son garlic, which can be observed and bought as gifts at a fairly cheap price. 
Ly Son garlic harvest season (Photo @ christinanguyen115)
But the weather is sometimes quite bad, often heavy rain, heavy rain, and high winds make the weather somewhat chilly, even storms make the sea rough, boats cannot move and the water is cloudy, very loss of aesthetics. Therefore, if you intend to visit the island, you must continuously monitor the weather forecast carefully.
Means of transportation when traveling to Ly Son
To Sa Ky port – Quang Ngai
By plane
This is the most expensive but fastest means to get to Quang Ngai, especially for those who are far away. From Hanoi or from Saigon, you buy tickets to Chu Lai – Quang Ngai airport from vietjet, jetstar, bamboo or vietnam airlines … with round-trip fares ranging from 3 million to 3 million and a half for 1 person. Revealing, the earlier you hunt for tickets, the cheaper the ticket will be.
The plane went to Quang Ngai
After getting off the airport, you take a taxi or bus to Sa Ky port. Because the port is about 50km from Chu Lai airport, the Ly Son travel experience of the predecessor said that if taking a taxi, it will cost about 270,000 VND / trip. As for the bus, you have to catch 2 trips, which is trip 12 and then get off at the city center bus station to catch line 3 to go for 40,000 VND / ticket / one way. Thus, if you go crowded, you should take a taxi, while 1 or 2 people should take the bus.
By train
For those who want to be safe and save money, you can use the train to travel Ly Son Island, with fares from Saigon ranging from 475,000 VND to 1,000,000 VND / ticket depending on the type of seat and from In Hanoi, the ticket price ranges from 550,000 VND to 1,200,000 VND / ticket depending on the type of seat.
In which, there will be 5 trains from Thong Nhat to the North to the South every day and go through Quang Ngai for you to choose:
– SE1 and SE2 trains depart from Hanoi at 9 o’clock and depart from Saigon at 19 o’clock.
– SE3 and SE4 trains depart from Hanoi at 23:00 and depart from Saigon at 23:00.
– SE5 and SE6 trains depart from Hanoi at 9 o’clock and depart from Saigon at 9 o’clock.
– SE7 and SE8 trains depart from Hanoi at 6:15 and depart from Saigon at 6:25.
– TN and TN1 trains depart from Hanoi at 13:15 and depart from Saigon at 13:25.
By passenger car
It can be said that passenger car is the cheapest means to move, but time is also quite fast. Accordingly, if you use this vehicle, in Saigon, you go to the East bus station to catch Phuong Trang, Nhat Con or Quang Hien to Quang Ngai with the price from 300,000 VND to 320,000 VND / ticket / one way, while in Hanoi. Then go to Nuoc Ngam bus station to catch Chin Nghia bus for 400,000 VND / ticket / one way.
Phuong Trang Car House
And after getting off the bus, you can take a taxi or bus line 03 to Sa Ky port. But according to the travel suggestion of Ly Son of those who went ahead, if you use the bus, you must catch the earliest trip at 5 am to not miss the route, because the bus takes more than 1 hour.
To Ly Son island
There are two types of train tickets to Ly Son island, a high-speed train priced at 135,000 VND / ticket and a high-speed train priced at 155,000 VND / ticket. Although the prices are not much different, the bullet trains travel half the time faster and limit fatigue or seasickness, so people often choose to ride the bullet train.
Note when buying tickets :
- To purchase a ticket, you must have an ID card or passport.
- When buying tickets, you must queue and buy only 2 tickets per person.
- Tickets go on sale at 6am, so please be on time.
- Train departs at 7:30, 9:30, 13:30 and 15:30.
Moving in Ly Son island
The means to travel in Ly Son Island are quite diverse, including motorbikes, trams, tuk tuks and taxis, but if you want to go to another island, you must use a canoe.
In particular, most motels or hotels on the island also rent motorbikes for 150,000 VND / car / day (filled with gas) and 130,000 VND / car / day (without gas).
Electric cars are also quite cheap, travel smoothly but cool, tuk tuks are a bit squirrel and taxis are quite high because gasoline is expensive, about 20,000 VND / km, so if you go many places it will be very expensive.
Where to stay when traveling to Ly Son
Hotel
– Muong Thanh Hotel: near the sea, with swimming pool, spa, sauna, bar, karaoke and restaurant … with prices from 1,200,000 VND to 2,500,000 VND / room / night.
– Central Ly Son Hotel: located right at the wharf with the price of about 1,000,000 VND / room / night.
– Ly Son Pearl Island Hotel anh Resort: the only model on the island, located right on the beach with a capacity of over 200 guests, priced from 1,080,000 VND / night / room.
Luxury Muong Thanh hotel (Photo @ madibu.27)
Hotel
– Phat Thinh guest house is priced from 150,000 VND to 200,000 VND / room / night.
– Guest house Vien Dong has price from 150,000 VND / room / night.
– Hoa Bien guesthouse has the price ranging from 150,000 VND to 200,000 VND / room / night.
– Guest house Quynh Trang has price from 180,000 VND / room / night.
– Ly Ti Motel is priced from 200,000 VND / room / night.
Homestay
Homestay in Ly Son is quite small, often spontaneous from the homestay, but quite beautiful and unique such as: Bien Wind, Alabin, Athena and House’s Kitchen … Especially, the price is quite cheap from 200,000 VND to 450,000 VND / room. / night / 2 people, but you can also learn people’s daily life.
Lovely homestay in Ly Son
Sleep tent
This is an interesting and unique option. However, through the experience of Ly Son tourism of experienced people, it is only suitable for a large group of friends and can only be done on Be Island or Cau Cave area.
What should Ly Son tourism eat?
Seafood
Like many other islands, seafood is also a specialty that tourists cannot help but try when traveling to Ly Son island district . Most of the restaurants or markets (day and night) here sell a wide variety of seafood and delicious dishes made from them.
Some seafood dishes that you must definitely try when coming to this beautiful island are: Huynh De crab, mussels, ghost fish, scallop fish, nettle (or sea urchin, sea urchin) and snail …
Delicious king crab (Photo @ the1992corner)
Porridge
In addition to the fragrant grilled bum porridge, the porridge also makes tourists who experience Ly Son travel indulged in the aroma of onions, sweet, greasy but not bored of the meat and a little spicy of pepper Yet incredibly nutritious, eating a bite can’t be stopped.
Nutritional porridge (Photo @ l.ly.y)
Ly Son garlic salad
Garlic is a typical product of this land, so people know how to take advantage of it to make delicious dishes, such as garlic salad. Garlic is used for all parts of the plant except the roots, mixed with sugar, pepper, monosodium glutamate, lemons, salt and roasted peanuts … both fragrant and spicy.
Ly Son fish cake
Still taken from the meat of fresh fish caught from the sea, but the special feature of Ly Son-style fish cakes is the involvement of garlic in the marinating process, so not only when processing the garlic smell. It smells very fragrant, but when eaten, the taste is also very strange and attractive.
Ly Son fish cakes unique (Photo @bepnharom)
Calabash salad
Crispy gongs have a characteristic seaweed taste, combined with fresh fragrant leaves, sour lemons, spicy peppers and fragrant peanuts … making the salad in Ly Son easy to conquer. the stomach of even the most demanding diners.
However, although goby is a quite popular plant species in Ly Son, but only grows from February to April of the lunar calendar, so if you do not arrive at the right time, visitors will not be able to enjoy the specialties. Ly Son is notorious for this.
Xu rubs Ly Son
Xu rub is a very unique white mouth dish that those who visit Ly Son must definitely try. This dish is made from winter vegetables, only growing in the rainy season, after being processed, it will have a cool, sweet taste, especially served with yellow slug sugar and grilled fresh ginger is even more rolled.
Rubbing the cool bar (Photo @ hienhomhinh199x)
Famous tourist spots in Ly Son
Arch Gate
To Vo Gate is considered the most attractive tourist destination in Ly Son. It is naturally formed from fossil rock-to-rock volcanic lava, 2.5m high, shaped like a gate, surrounded by clear seawater, looks extremely attractive. . Here, if I make some virtual live pictures, I only love the long word e.
Magic Arch Gate (Photo @kisimpham)
Thoi Loi Mountain
Thoi Loi is the highest mountain in Ly Son, formed from lava, so when standing on top you can capture the entire poetic beauty of the island with its lush green garlic fields and low-shaped rocks. transient in the white ocean waves or the most beautiful fanciful sunrise and sunset frame on the island.
A charming dawn on the top of the mountain (Photo @trangsammm)
Moreover, at the top, there is also a National Flag Pole over 20 meters high and underfoot is poured with solid reinforced concrete pillars, the face facing the Hoang Sa archipelago as a sharp statement of sovereignty. the territory of Vietnam’s sea and islands.
Island Be
Not having a large area, but Be Island with blue, clear beaches, smooth white sand stretches to the towering cliffs of a stretcher to embrace the coast, making anyone travel to Ly Son Quang Ngai when coming here, all are infatuated.
The water on the island is clear and can see the bottom (Photo @ n.ph_m)
In particular, this place also has a super large coral reef with countless colorful corals, easily visible through the clear sea water, when the sun shines on like playing. bright, should be loved by a lot of people.
Hang Cau
Hearing the name may not be interesting, but surely when you arrive at Cau Cave, visitors will be overwhelmed by the majestic, poetic natural scenery in the middle of a wonderful high mountain, the other is a clear blue sea. five waves crashed.
Pristine and majestic Cau Cave (Photo @hanavy)
Because it has not been invested much in tourism, this place is still quite wild and peaceful, so it will be very suitable for you to camp overnight, to be put to sleep by the waves, wake up early in the morning. Get up very early to welcome the sparkling dawn on the sea surface, it will definitely be a memorable memory.
Hon Mu Cu
In addition to the clear blue sea water that seems to blend with the sky, the Mu Cu is also impressive with rocks with many strange and unique shapes emerging in the middle of the sea like works of art, looking extremely impressive. .
The peaceful island of Mu Cu (Photo @ baodie103)
Above all, according to those who have experience in Ly Son tourism , this is an extremely ideal resort and sunrise on the island because of the fresh and peaceful space, making it easy to forget about the sorrow.
Cave temple
Hang Pagoda is a famous spiritual place that pilgrims should not miss when visiting Ly Son Island. The pagoda is located at the foot of Thoi Loi mountain and is built in a frog-like manner, going about 30m deep into the mountain.
Strange Cave Temple (Photo @nganpiie)
Inside the temple there is a very pure and cool scene, especially there are nooks and paths to heaven, to hell with a poetic and charming scene, so it attracts many people to experience.
Chua Temple
Located halfway up the slopes of Gieng Tien – a volcano that has fallen asleep for thousands of years on the island, Dam Pagoda impresses with the majestic, poetic scenery and the white statue of Quan The Am facing the sea, making Everyone is attracted from afar.
According to the people, this is a very sacred statue because it helps the islanders avoid natural disasters and restores peace to the island, so even if you have to step through more than 100 steps along the mountainside, you can place However, many people still do not hesitate to conquer the temple.
Outstanding statue of mandarin at Dam Pagoda (Photo @trantuananh_ken)
Hoang Sa Squadron Monument
Located in the center of Ly Son island district, the Hoang Sa monument and memorial house stands tall in the sun, wind and waves as a fierce affirmation of the sovereignty of the Hoang Sa archipelago to Vietnam.
Moreover, when stepping inside, visitors can also admire many artifacts of the Hoang Sa soldiers such as: sedge mat, rattan rope, bamboo brace, water roller, bamboo boat and bamboo tag … We can learn more about the lives of the soldiers on the island, and then love and appreciate their sacrifices.
Hope that the above travel experience of Ly Son can help you have the most wonderful and memorable trip!
Photo: Internet