With
the advantages of being a close, wide and deep bay (because it is
surrounded by mountains from three sides, and the water is calm
throughout the year), Cam Ranh Bay is able to harbor large-tonnage ships
of about 10 thousand tons right to the port and 20 thousand tons to the
bay door. Cam Ranh Bay's beauty has been well known for a long time.
Mountains and sea are combined to form a masterpiece of the natural
marvels throughout Cam Ranh. The bay maintains major contrasting colors:
the white color of sand, the blue color of the sea and sky, and the
green from mountains and trees all year long.
Cam
Ranh used to be very noisy and bustling in the past, but now it is
quiet and calm. The streets are crowded in the daytime but then become
incredibly quiet at night. Fishing villages are located along the coast,
nestling themselves in dense coconut or evergreen forests.
Coming to Cam Ranh, tourists can enjoy the unique scenery of mountains,
sea and landscape. Along the coastal line is a lovely series of
residential areas: Ba Ngòi,Đá Bạc, Bảo Giếng and the peninsula across
the bay, including the communes of Mĩ Ca, Bình Ba, Vũng Nôm and
especially the Thủy Triều lagoon that has a
shallow water tide, and is a breeding ground for blood cockle. The blood
cockle’s wonderful taste can be compared to the legendary taste of
lobster from Ô Loan lagoon in Phú Yên province, as a poem from long
time ago says:
Lobster in Bình Ba
Dried deer meat in Diên Khánh
Snakehead fish in Võ Cạnh
Blood cockle in Thủy Triều
If
you have a chance to visit Cam Ranh Bay, you can take a 40-minute boat
ride from the port of Đá Bạc (Ba Ngòi) to Bình Ba, the place of sea
breezes all year long and beautiful scenery. You can also visit Vũng Nôm
- a bustling fishing village - located on the bank of a peaceful and
calm river and surrounded by big gardens of coconut and longan trees.
It's also rich with different types of food, most notably lobsters in
Bình Ba, which can reach enormous sizes with almost 1-metre antenes.
Some can weigh up to seven or eight kilos. In addition, Cam Ranh also
has different kinds of seafood, such as snail, crab, seaweed, squid,
fish, etc, which are very delicious and reasonably priced. Coming to Cam
Ranh in summer, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy an
original variety of mango fruit, small but extremely sweet.
Cam
Ranh Bay has great economic and touristic potential. All of the
beautiful landscapes around the bay, such as the sand, fishing villages,
the hills of the peninsula in the extreme southern region, and yellow
apricot blossoming all year round always warmly welcome visitors. Cam
Ranh Bay is also considered one of the national major gateways to
export products from the central Highlands, such as forestry products,
rubber, tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar and fruit. Sand from Ba Ngòi
is white and contains sillic, the material for chemical industry and
producing glass and crystal. Cam Ranh Bay can also be an ideal place to
establish shipping industries, fishing and seafood processing to supply
hotels and export. Therefore, Cam Ranh Bay will become one of the largest industrial centers in a near future.