Overall view

Still,on your supposed North-East journey, it’s quite easy to realize DongHoi, a nice small town of Quang Binh province alongside Nhat Le River.You may see a nearby beautiful beach,named Nhat Le, and a green Bao Ninh peninsula full of coconut treeshadows & fishing boats on the other riverside, making a freshwater-color painting. After only ten-minute drive across the riverbridge, you now have a chance to relax yourself in a magnificent fairylandscape of beach, long-lasting sand banks, blue sky, blue sea, andgreen coconut tree rows!

Climate

DongHoi in general and Nhat Le in particular have a monsoon tropicalclimate with two seasons, dry and rainy ones. Average temperature is24.6^oC, with the lowest of 7.7^oC in January, and the highest of 42.2^oCin June. The average humidity is 83%/year. In the scorching hot days ofdry season, Nhat Le beach is considered Vietnam’s Sahara Desert,somehow stimulating travelers.

Let’s take a round trip

Takinga tour to Nhat Le beach, you may enjoy a series of interestingrelaxation activities. On arrival, you should take a walk alongside theromantic mirror-like Nhat Le River, and let your soul leisurely “drift” with the rippling river waves, so as to feel a poetic sparklingNhat Le. The early morning is ideal time to enjoy yourself on thelong-lasting sand bank, which is compared to “Sahara Desert of Vietnam”to know how hot and sunny it is in Quang Binh, before dipping into thevery cool, fresh and blue sea water.

Notonly could you go swimming, but take part in a number of other excitingentertainment types as well. For example, go sand-skating with yourfriends on nearby sand caverns, boat sailing on the vast clear sea,parachute jumping on the sea, enjoying hundreds of special seafood onlyfound in Vietnam’s central sea zone, and so forth. Believe me, you willsoon miss the pure and eventful atmosphere in this beautiful seaside!

Besides,Nhat Le is also famous for a great deal of beautiful culturalactivities and historical sight-seeings. After a series of excitingentertainment kinds, tourists may independently travel around Bao Ninhseaside village, joining an interesting fishing festival, listening tothe enchanting folk songs, contemplating  a traditionalgentle dance -“bông chèo cạn ” performed by graceful local girls, orvisiting fish, tortoise, and trionychid turtle raising farms west ofthe town, etc. Nhat Le’s cultural tranquintences may lure you fromdaily busy thoughts and tensions.

For history explorers, a few minutes should be spent on visiting and praying for Mother Suot Statueright in Bao Ninh sand village), a heroic Mother during Vietnam war. Avery moved historical site of enormous significance that worths yourvisit is the place where Uncle Ho Chi Minh and otherVietnam’s high-ranking politic officials stopped by in 1957 during thewar against the US. If you would like to come back to the space ofQuang Binh’s heroic war in the gone days, you should visit the old Quang Binh village.This has witnessed the severe but glorious fights of the localVietnamese, attached to a system of underground houses, kindergartens,schools, health-stations, and so on. Returning from the village, theremained emotion of tourists is the profound admiration to the locals’struggling spirits, and limitless withstanding.

Tourist activities

• Nhat Le beach: Swimming, sun bathing, boat sailing, sand skating
• Surrounding places of interest:

*  Mother Suot Monument

*  Quang Binh Historical village