DESTINATION IN QUAN LAN ISLAND

Arrive at Quan Lan Island, you have a chance to know and discover the local culture.

• Map Peak and Dau Cao coral beach.

Dau Cao coral reef is located right beside Chuong Nep beach, and Map Chuong Sam Peak is an ideal point to contemplate landscapes.

• Rung tram – Nhang dia road

Going along the train in Tram forest to Lac pond, we will see many kind of plant that we rarely see in the city; such us sim, mua, grass field and tiny trees,…

Passing Lac pond, we will arrive Nhang Ria beach. Beach is so wavy, as at Quan Lan with white sand… But when you are swimming, you have to avoid of dangerous under water stones. There are many hidden places, which are ideal for camping.After an hour walking, you will back to tram forest and go swimming at Chuong Nep beach after a short break.  Con Trui sand is a place where turtle lay eggs.

• Con Trui sand

Con Trui sand is in the left, 500m from Minh Chau wharf, right beside the road from the wharf to the center of commune, this is a place for Chelone – a kind of sea turtle, which is under global protection program.

• Lac pond – a world of turtle.

Nowadays, the National Park have already taken some steps to propagate this kind of turtle with the purpose: this will be a place, where tourists could come and see Golden Turtle Gods in their world, an ancient creature, which have been experienced hash change of earth climate.

• Sa sung beach – a traditional work point of Minh Chau commune

Sa sung is a kind of sea worm, which has high value. Minh Chau citizens are always proud of the local product’s high quality. Sa sung at Minh Chau is very famous, so all traders say that their products are original from Minh Chau. The nature had open-handed presented Minh Chau a 500 ha recess beside the Mang river bank. Thanks to white sand and clean environment, Sa sung here have not only delicious taste, but also attractive ivory-white color.

• Van Don ancient commercial harbor remain.

Ancient commercial port was established in 1149, it was the first sea commercial port in Vietnam. Although it had finished the role of commercial port in 19 century, nowadays, the remain of Van Don commercial port still attract many generations, as an inspiration to original of building the country of the ancestors. Nowadays, archaeologists have searched, excavated and defined that ancient commercial port was a system of port, that had been disposed on many various separated islands in the area of Bai Tu Long Bay: Cai Lang wharf, Cong Cai, Con Quy, Cong Hep, Cong Dong, Thieu Cong, Gao Rang, Van Ninh, the center consist of Cai Lang and Cong Cai wharf in Van Hai Island.

• Quan Lan Village Festival.

Quan Lan Festival is held annually from 10 to 20 June of lunar calendar. In this festival, there is an original local nuance, which has been embedded in island life and connected closely with working life and tradition in protecting the country of our People.

• Quan Lan Temple 

Being a unique sea port of the Ancient Viet country at that time, Van Don not only participated in making a complex of vestiges, that express the prosperous in the material life, but also created many cultural objective and intangible heritages, it’s a system of temple – pagoda and festivals, customs and habits, which have deep impression in local cultural life, formed from ancient to present.

In the system of historical-cultural remains, there is system of pagodas on Cong Dong island:  Lam pagoda, Cat pagoda, Trong pagoda, Vung pagoda, Cay Queo and a tower. In those, Lam pagoda is a biggest pagoda, that was built since Tran dynasty, located in west side of Cong Dong island. This pagoda completely collapsed, but the remains of Ho pagoda’s three-doors, Phat pagoda, High temple, main house, kitchen, well, lotus pedestal, squirrel stone balcony, dragon stone balcony, terracotta tower in Binh Son style (Vinh Phuc province)…, all of them prove that there was an important center of Buddhism of the whole island area.

• Tram forest –God of Wood in Minh Chau Commune

This is a God of Wood, who protect the village. A symbol have a supernatural power, which connect closely with daily and spirit life of Minh Chau citizens…