SAM SON Travel Guide 2022 from A-Z: accommodation, entertainment, specialties… the latest

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Sam Son is the most famous beach in Thanh Hoa, about 180 km from Hanoi and about 16 km from Thanh Hoa city. Sam Son beach is shaped like a crescent moon, running 9 km long from the foot of Truong Le mountain to Quang Cu commune (Sam Son town), thousands of meters wide, flat, fine sand, no place too deep, muddy or rocky. implicit.

Sam Son sea water has an appropriate salinity and temperature, which is beneficial to health, and very suitable for tourists to rest and relax. French scholar Le Breton commented: “This is the best beach to restore health”.

Photo: Le Hoang

What season is beautiful in Sam Son?

Summer is also the peak time for Sam Son tourism. From May to August every year, Sam Son welcomes millions of visitors to visit and relax. The most crowded occasion must be mentioned the annual holiday from April 30 to May 1. In the autumn, the weather is cool, suitable for vacations, the plus point is that the beaches are open and the service prices are much more stable than before.

Move

The distance from Hanoi to Sam Son is about 180 km long, the travel time is about 3 hours and 30 minutes, suitable for weekend trips. There are two routes for you to choose from: Highway 1 Hanoi – Ninh Binh to Thanh Hoa and Phap Van – Cau Gie – Ninh Binh – Thanh Hoa expressways. Then you follow Highway 47 to Sam Son city.

Traveling with your family, you can choose the train, the ticket price is from about 160,000 to 280,000 VND depending on the seat class. Another option is to take a bus on the Hanoi – Sam Son route from Giap Bat bus station, with prices from about 100,000 VND per person.

Photo: Giang Huy

If you want to go on a tour, you can contact tour operators in Hanoi. The package price is about 1,600,000 VND per person for 3 days and 2 nights. However, you should carefully read the tour schedule and ask if the price includes food and a hotel room.

Visitors from Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces can take a plane to Tho Xuan and Thanh Hoa airports and take a taxi, using the hotel’s shuttle service to Sam Son. Round-trip ticket price of Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways, VietJet Air… from about 2,400,000 VND, flight time is more than 2 hours.

In Sam Son, there are many types of vehicles to serve tourists such as taxis, motorbike taxis, electric cars, and bicycles for rent. Note, ask carefully about the cost of services that do not list prices.

Hotel

Hotels and motels in Sam Son are mostly located close to the sea. Room rates in high season from about 250,000 VND or more. You can choose to stay at hotels right on Ho Xuan Huong Street close to the edge of the sea for a beautiful view and convenient transportation.

Service prices at beaches A, B are often higher than on beaches C, D, so with a moderate budget, you can find motels 500 – 700 m from the beach under C and D to find good-priced rooms with good quality. Service quality is still guaranteed.

However, the selection of high-end accommodation facilities is not diverse. Currently, FLC Sam Son is the first international standard 5-star luxury resort among more than 600 accommodation establishments in Thanh Hoa.

Photo: FLC

Note when swimming in the sea

Sam Son beach is divided into 4 beaches A, B, C, D.

Beach A is the most crowded with tourists, has a gentle slope and strong waves, and has many boats and cliffs to take pictures of. However, you need to be careful when checking-in near the mountain due to the sharp rocks.

Beach B has more moderate waves, suitable for groups of guests with the elderly and children. This area concentrates many snack shops on the beach.

Beaches A and B are usually more crowded because they are closer to the city center. Photo: Le Bich

Beach C is big wave, crowded, and clean. Along the beach, there are many restaurants, cafes, and karaoke bars. The slope is flat and often a place for fun activities.

D beach is quieter, near the fishing boat area, suitable for those who want to enjoy a quiet space.

Sam Son beach always has a permanent rescue team. If you are unlucky enough to experience drowning, seasickness, cramps… it’s best to keep your mouth shut, hold your breath, hands and feet as oars, a fan to push your head out of the water and signal to wait for someone to save you. The time at noon and from 17h onwards is the time when tourists are not allowed to swim in the sea, and the rescue team does not work.

To be safe, you need to comply with regulations on time limits for bathing. Photo: Le Bich

Sam Son beach is not as calm and calm as other seas. The waves here are strong, breaking up to the shore continuously. Therefore, before going to the sea, you should do some gentle exercise to avoid cramps.

On rough sea days, Sam Son often forms some very dangerous offshore currents. Before taking a bath, visitors should take a few minutes to observe and stay away from the dangerous area.

Photo: Le Bich

Where to play?

In addition to beautiful beaches, Sam Son also has rocky mountains, full of large and small islands, lying, sitting, and overlapping into various shapes right next to the sea edge; there are forests; temples and monuments. Visitors can visit some places such as Trong Mai Islet, Co Tien Pagoda, Doc Cuoc Temple, Co Tien Temple, To Hien Thanh Temple, Truong Le Mountain, and Sam Son Market.

A little further, on the way back, tourists can visit the scenic spots of Thanh Hoa such as the Ho Dynasty citadel, divine fish stream, Ba Trieu temple, Tu Thuc cave, and Ben En National Park.

Drum Island

This scenic spot belongs to the cluster of historical and cultural relics of Truong Le mountain. According to legend, once, a fisherman from Truong Le village happened to save the life of a girl who was washed ashore by the waves, the two fell in love and then got married. The girl was originally a goddess of the heavens, but because of a crime, she was banished by the Jade Emperor to the world. Expired, Ngoc Hoang sent the gods down to bring the fairy to heaven, but she decided to stay with her husband on earth. Ngoc Hoang was angry and sent Thien Loi down to ask about the crime.

When Thien Loi arrived, he saw only a rocky beach. With faithful love, the young couple turned to stone to be together forever. The big stone is the husband, the smaller stone is the wife. Around also see many other small stones, shaped like pigs, cats, trays, stoves…

Hon Trong Mai has three rocks stacked on top of each other, one with a pointed end lying on top of the base rock like the shape of a rooster, the opposite one is smaller and has the shape of a hen, so it is named by folklore. is Trong Mai island. Photo: Tam Anh

Doc Cuoc Temple

This is one of the famous spiritual places of Thanh Hoa, so every early spring attracts many tourists to visit. Doc Cuoc Temple is located on the top of Co Giai, Truong Le mountain range. This place is associated with the legend of the giant who sacrificed himself to fight the demons of the sea, and fought the enemy to save the land. To remember this great merit, the people built a temple right next to the rock with an indentation, like a trace of a giant’s footsteps.

Photo: Bui Thuy Dao Nguyen/Wikipedia

Co Tien Temple

Located at the end of Truong Le mountain range, the Co Tien pagoda is a famous relic associated with Sam Son beach tourism. An old story says that this temple worships a daughter who works as a medicine to help many unfortunate people. Her father forced her to marry a rich man, and she protested and was kicked out of the house. She fell in love and married a poor and kind boy named Coi. Suddenly she contracted leprosy, an old man appeared, treated with herbal medicine and cool spring water taken from Vung Tien. The beautiful girl recovered from the disease, the old woman left them a rain cover and a rattan basket containing life-saving medicine.

One night, after going to the hospital late at night, meeting with heavy rain and wind, remembering the old woman’s advice, the couple took out their hands to cover the rain and fell asleep. In the morning, they found themselves sitting in a splendid three-room house. From then on, the two stayed at the house and went to pick medicinal leaves to cure diseases for people in the area. One fine morning, they dressed up and took each other to the top of the mountain, never to return. The house became Co Tien temple and was smoked by the villagers.

Event

In 2022, Sam Son city will organize the Trong Mai Island Love Festival with a series of events such as a singing contest about love, a family rice tray contest, a love camp…

In addition, this year the city also organizes a marine tourism festival with the theme “Sam Son takes off” with events throughout such as the first kite flying festival; art program every Saturday; street festival, swimming pool festival, a parade of large displacement motorcycles…. June is the focus of the sea festival 2022 Sam Son.

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Eating

Sam Son beach has nearly 1,000 kinds of shrimp, crab, fish and much rare seafood; Especially, there are fish salad and sea snake hot pot which are popular with many people. Some reference addresses are Cao Hung restaurant (234 Ngo Quyen), Chinh Thuy restaurant, Thanh Hoi restaurant, Dung Quych 1-2 restaurant or Tuan Nam restaurant…

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What to buy?

You can bargain the price to buy colorful sea stones, a beautiful small key chain made from shells, or a seashell wind chime sold on the beach as a souvenir after the trip. In addition, you should visit Sam Son market, Dien Bien to buy fresh, dried seafood or spring rolls at good prices.

Photo: VnExpress readers

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