Phu Yen is a province in the South Central Coast, connecting Binh Dinh and Khanh Hoa. This place has a gentle and graceful beauty when embracing two passes: Cu Mong Pass bordering Binh Dinh and Ca Pass bordering Khanh Hoa. Highlights marked in the hearts of tourists when arriving here are the images of immense rice fields, stretching beaches, freshwater swamps, or interesting undulating disc reefs.
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The ideal time to travel to Phu Yen
According to the experience of those who have traveled to Phu Yen, the most convenient and appropriate time to have an ideal trip here is in the sunny season stretching from January to August. This is also the tourist season so before starting, you need to book your hotel room in advance to save time when you arrive.
Avoid the time when Phu Yen is in the rainy season from September to December to have the most complete experience. Because in the sunny season, the scenery of Phu Yen seems to be more vibrant, more colorful. The yellow rice fields shine in the sun, the beaches and cliffs also sparkle when the sun shines.
Phu Yen is brilliantly beautiful in the sunny season from January to August
In addition, if you want to attend traditional cultural festivals here, January – February is a very reasonable time with outstanding cultural activities such as Ho Loan Swamp boat racing (January 7), Da Rang River boat racing (January 7), Horse racing festival (January 8).
How to reach Phu Yen?
Airplane
You can choose flights of airlines: Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar as a means of transportation to Phu Yen. There are two routes to Phu Yen: Hanoi – Phu Yen and Saigon – Phu Yen, with ticket prices ranging from 1,500,000 to 1,900,000 VND. If you can find cheap tickets to Phu Yen, the ticket price is just over 600,000 VND/way. You can hunt for tickets right at the cheap flight booking page of Vntrip. Phu Yen has Tuy Hoa Airport 10km from the city center, so you have to hire a motorbike taxi or taxi to move into the city center.
Tuy Hoa Airport is 10km from the city center – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Train
If in Hanoi, you can choose to travel to Phu Yen by train along the route Hanoi – Phu Yen. To be able to save travel time, you should choose the SE3 train departing from 10 pm the previous night and arriving at Phu Yen station at 8:30 pm the next day.
If in Hanoi, you can choose to travel to Phu Yen by train along the route Hanoi – Phu Yen. To be able to save travel time, you should choose the SE3 train departing from 10 pm the previous night and arriving at Phu Yen station at 8:30 pm the next day.
Fare:
Saigon – Tuy Hoa: 500,000 – 1,040,000 depending on seat type.
Hanoi – Tuy Hoa: 500,000 – 1,300,000 depending on seats.
It is possible to travel by train from Hanoi and Saigon to Phu Yen – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Coach
For tourists departing from Saigon, they can choose a bus as their means of transportation. You buy tickets at the Eastern Bus Station. Thuan Thao coach has both seat and sleeper tickets with prices ranging from 180,000 to 300,000 VND/1 ticket.
Some coaches in Phu Yen:
- Thanh Ban garage, located on Phu Lam Station, Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen Province
- Cuc Tu garage, 65 Le Loi, Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen
- Binh Phuong garage, 74 Nguyen Tat Thanh, Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen
Thuan Thao bus has the route Saigon – Phu Yen
Private vehicles
If the distance from your starting point to Phu Yen is about 300km, a backpacking trip will be an interesting option. The basic notes when traveling by motorbike are always obeying traffic laws, paying attention to observing, carrying all the necessary documents and protective gear for a long road trip by motorbike. In addition, you should learn about the route as well as the characteristics of that route to make the necessary preparations. The scenery of Phu Yen is extremely beautiful, drive safely for a truly memorable trip!
Please install GPS or bring a map for convenient transportation – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Means of transportation when traveling in Phu Yen
Motorbike
Motorcycles are the most convenient and interesting means of transportation when you have a trip to experience Phu Yen. Perhaps because of that, Phu Yen has many motorbike rental locations with many different brands and types of vehicles. The price of motorbike rental is about 80,000 – 120,000 VND. When renting, you need to deposit your ID card or personal papers to secure.
Motorcycles are the means of choice for many people when traveling to Phu Yen – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Taxi
If traveling with family, office, taxi is still the most convenient means of transport.
- Phone numbers of some taxi companies in Phu Yen:
- Taxi Mai Linh Phu Yen: 057.3.89.89.89
- Taxi Thuan Thao Phu Yen: 057.3.810.810
- Sun Taxi Phu Yen: 057.3.79.79.79
- Sao Taxi Phu Yen: 057.3.819.819
- Taxi Hoang Anh Phu Yen: 057.3.66.66.66
Hotels and resorts at Phu Yen
Saigon Phu Yen Hotel
- Address: 541 Tran Hung Dao, Ward 6, Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen
- Price: From 850,000 VND/night
This is a 4-star hotel with modern design and comfortable facilities, bringing moments of wonderful relaxation. Saigon Phu Yen Hotel consists of 87 rooms with spacious, airy, and beautifully decorated rooms. There are restaurants specializing in serving Phu Yen specialties, Asian and European dishes, and fresh seafood. In addition, the hotel also provides international standard services such as a swimming pool, gym.
Hung Vuong Hotel
Located on Hung Vuong Street – the most beautiful street of Tuy Hoa city. Hung Vuong Hotel is really an ideal and convenient stopover for tourists to visit and explore this beautiful coastal city. The hotel is located not far from the beach just a few steps, visitors can set foot on the white sand of the romantic beach of Tuy Hoa city.
Visitors to Hung Vuong Hotel will enjoy a luxurious and comfortable resort space getting international standards. Spacious rooms are designed simply but delicately, creating a feeling of warmth and friendliness.
VietStar Resort & Spa
- Address: Nui Thom, An Phu, Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen
- Price : from 1,620,000 VND/night
VietStar Resort & Spa has a modern architecture including 93 spacious, clean and well-equipped rooms, fully equipped with furniture such as 31-inch flat-screen TV, dressing table, night light, wardrobe, air conditioner. All rooms have large windows with elegant curtains. bathrooms have sinks, large mirrors, and showers to help guests relax when using. The resort has an elevator for traveling between floors of visitors.
The resort has a team of agile, attentive staff who are always ready to help and advise on famous places to visit and play in the city for visitors. VietStar Resort & Spa has a gym with modern advanced equipment, massage services, an outdoor swimming pool, a large garden area with many shady trees, a golf course, a tennis court, and a private beach. The restaurant has a variety of delicious dishes including many domestic and international dishes at the buffet counter to help guests choose freely. The restaurant also has a variety of attractive drinks to serve guests.
Tourist places in Phu Yen “cannot miss”
Green beaches
Xep Beach
Xep Beach is an ideal dating place for couples in romantic sunsets. And since the premiere of the movie “I see yellow flowers on green grass”, the scene of Ong Rapid, Xep Beach has become the focus of attention and is the most chosen destination in the last days of the year.
Kite flying scene at Ganh Ong, Bai Xep – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Although Bai Xep is only about 500m long, it has a charming beauty with two rocky beaches at both ends of the beach. The rocky beach is undulating, bumpy, the beach on the left runs into the sea, creating a whole new space and helping to block the wind. Standing at the cliffs, looking out at the blue sky and sea, you can see how charming and captivating the beauty of the country is.
Xep Beach is picturesque with undulating and interesting rapids – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Xep Beach is 14km north of Tuy Hoa City center. From Tuy Hoa City, go straight along Le Duan Street to Tuy An District. This is a wide, cool road, very popular with backpackers because it is surrounded by poplar trees on both sides of the road. Or you can follow the National Highway 1A route to An Chan commune, Tuy An, turn into Sao Viet tourist area to come to Bai Xep.
There are two roads to reach Xep Beach – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Mon Beach
If you have the opportunity to come to Phu Yen, once go to watch the sunrise or sunset at Mon Beach located 35km southeast of Tuy Hoa. Mon Beach has a majestic and wild beauty, located at the foot of Hai Dang, Mui Dien, Phuoc Tam village, Hoa Tam commune, Tuy Hoa. Visitors arriving here must be amazed by the harmonious picture between the sea and the mountains. In the distance is a lighthouse that shines every night for passing ships.
Don’t miss the chance to watch the sunset at Bai Mon – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Visitors can come to Bai Mon in two ways: From Tuy Hoa city along National Highway 1A about 23km to the Southeast, or from Nha Trang along National Highway 1A about 100km to the Northeast, visitors will come halfway through Ca Pass, continue along the road Phuoc Tan – Bai Nga and through the coconut forest about 12km, you will arrive at Bai Mon.
There are many roads to Bai Mon – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Goc Beach
Bai Goc is located in the North of Bai Mon, Cape Dien and Bai Tien. From National Highway 1A, follow the road about 10km to the East, follow the beach from Vung Ro village, pass Bai Mon, Bai Tien about 15km to reach Bai Goc.
Coming to Goc Beach is coming to a wild, rustic beauty like a raw unpolished pearl. Coming Bai Goc is about finding a peaceful space, not rushing, looking for clear blue waves, pristine white sand beaches stretching endlessly, whispering waves, cool sea breezes like washing away all the worries and fatigue of a busy life. An interesting point of Bai Goc is that coming here in the early morning, you can witness the moment when the boats of the fishermen here come back from the sea with fresh catches of fish and shrimp, sparkling in the morning sun.
Goc Beach has a wild beauty – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Tuy Hoa Beach
Tuy Hoa Beach is located right next to Tuy Hoa city, long and wide and has a pristine beauty with white waves. In the morning, the people in the city, mostly middle-aged people, pull together to the sea. But Tuy Hoa beach is most crowded in the afternoons when people end a hard day’s work and want to go back to the vast sky and sea to relieve the pressures of work and life.
People in the city often gather to the sea in the afternoons to relieve the burden of life – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Om Beach – Rang Beach
Om Beach, Rang Beach are unexplored paradises, a space without many footprints of tourists. Coming to Om Beach, Rang Beach, you will not be disturbed by tourist services all over the beach, but only focus on letting your soul drop into the wild and clear beauty of nature here.
The beach doesn’t have many tourist footprints yet – Phu Yen Travel Guide
From Tuy Hoa city, move about 70km to Xuan Dai Bay, turn in and go another 20km to be able to satisfy your eyes with the large space of Bai Om, Bai Rang.
Om Beach is wild and beautiful – Phu Yen Travel Guide
An extremely interesting point about these two beaches is that even though they are arranged by God for the location close to each other, only a few coconut tree rows, these two beaches have different characteristics. While Om Beach is noisy with big, strong waves crashing on the shore all day long, Rang Beach is calm with small waves.
Referring to Om (hug) Beach, you probably imagine its structure: The beach has an arc shape, embrace the vast sea. Om Beach especially pleases visitors who are interested in adventure travel.
Om Beach with big waves crashing on the shore – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Bai Rang is gentle with small waves
Amazing islands
Roof Isle (Cu Lao Mai Nha)
- Address: Roof Isle is located in An Hai commune, Tuy An, Phu Yen.
Roof Isle 27km north of Tuy Hoa city, known as the Robinson Island of Phu Yen. The ideal time to go to Roof Isle is from March to August, when the weather is calm, the sea is calm, not noisy or dangerous. To get to Roof Isle, it will take you 20 minutes to sit on a boat of local people, the boat fare is about 500,000 VND for a round trip.
You have to take a local boat to get to Roof Isle – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Coming to Roof Isle, visitors will enjoy the most private and wonderful moments with the majestic natural scenery of the sea, sky, and mountains opening before their eyes. Especially in Roof Isle, there are no tourist services such as hotels, guest houses, restaurants, etc., so you are completely free to plan your journey to conquer the Roof Isle. Collecting firewood, making a small pink fire on the beach by yourself will bring to you new and exciting experiences.
It is exciting for you to make a fire and cook yourself
Fishing in the undulating rapids is also an interesting challenge
Nua Isle
Nua Isle is the special boundary between Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa. Coming to Nua Isle, visitors will be conquered by the wild beauty of nature with interlaced but interesting cliffs. If you have the opportunity to visit this place, do not forget to set foot in the lighthouse, and follow the soldiers to visit the blue scene here. You can also organize a small picnic here, together to catch urchins and snails, the “specialties” that reside on the cliffs along the coast.
Nua Isle with steep cliffs – Phu Yen Travel Guide
Chua Isle
From the mainland, run 7km, you will arrive at Isle Pagoda. On Chua isle, there is a stone foundation that many people say is the foundation of a pagoda. Chua isle owns a wild and isolated beauty. The trees on the isle are mainly luxuriant, thorny plants that bring a sense of mystery. The beach at Pagoda Isle stretches with white sand. Tourists coming here will enjoy relaxing in the fresh, cool, and refreshing atmosphere. Especially for young people who are passionate about discovering the beauty of the sea, Isle Pagoda is the best choice.
Chua Isle has a wild and isolated beauty
Coming to Phu Yen with Chua Isle, you will experience extremely attractive activities such as catching fish, watching coral, or participating in traditional festivals such as the fisherman festival of the people here. The diverse, colorful coral reefs and fish shrimp beaches around the coast will definitely bring visitors an interesting trip.
Summer is more enjoyable with experiential activities in Hon Chua
Yen Isle
- Address: An Hoa Commune, Tuy An District, Phu Yen Province
Yen Isle has a very special position when surrounded by a series of beautiful landscapes. A rocky mountain range reaches out to the sea called Ganh Yen, Ganh Ho Chao located at the foot of Ganh Yen with mysterious dark rock formations. To the right of Yen Isle is Mui Yen, next to Ong Nam Hai’s mausoleum. Zooming in a little further, you will see the dreamy Xep beach, which was chosen as a scene in the movie “I see yellow flowers on green grass”.
Two islands in the middle of the sea create an interesting structure
What to eat when traveling to Phu Yen?
Rice noodle and pork heart (Hoi Cake)
Rice noodle and pork heart is usually eaten for breakfast – Phu Yen Travel Guide
This dish is probably too famous when referring to the land of Nau. So much so that the people of this land even say that “if you come here without eating this dish, you have not come”.
Hoi Cake is made from rice flour, processed meticulously. A plate of Hoi Cake is sprinkled with onion fat, served with a plate of roasted meat, grilled meat, heart pork… as you like. This is a special food usually eaten at anniversaries, weddings, and festivals in communal houses.
Hot Beo Cake
Beo Cake is one of the favorite dishes found everywhere. Beo Cake each place has a different taste, Beo Cake Phu Yen has its very own flavor with pork brushed into cotton, fried bread, onion fat.
Beo Cake Phu Yen attracts diners also because the owner knows how to keep the cup of Beo Cake hot before serving, diners have to turn their hands many times to hold the cake cup.
Sea tuna eyes
Ocean tuna eye is not only very popular for its delicious taste, but it is also extremely nutritious for human health. Tuna eyes contain a lot of DHA and omega 3, which are good for the body’s metabolism, help strengthen the brain, develop eyesight. For people with poor eyesight or eye diseases, using tuna eyes with its liver will be extremely good. Fish eyes can be processed into many dishes. Including the dish of tuna eyes stewed with traditional Chinese medicine. The combination of the fisheye and Chinese herbs makes the nutrition of this dish more perfect.
Some Phu Yen specialties can be used as gifts
Mot Nang Beef (beef is dried in the sun for 1 day)
Mot Nang Beef is made from chine and thigh meat from cows raised naturally. The chine and thigh meat are marinated with spices such as onions, garlic, pepper, chili, etc., and then brought out to dry in the sun for one day. Mot Nang has a chewy taste, fragrant with sunshine, spicy, served with chili sauce, salt, … to give people an attractive taste.
Hoa Da rice paper
The rice paper in the Central region in general and the rice paper in Phu Yen particularly is 4 times bigger than rice paper in the South. Referring to the most famous rice paper area in Phu Yen, it must be mentioned Hoa Da rice paper, fragrant rice paper with a strong smell of rice. Rice paper is used in many dishes, to roll shrimp meat, spring rolls, or to be eaten with other dishes.
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Phu Yen fish sauce
As a sea rich in fish and shrimp, one of the indispensable specialties is fish sauce. Phu Yen fish sauce has a rich umami taste, not inferior to Phan Thiet fish sauce, Phu Quoc. Ong Gia is the most famous fish sauce brand in Phu Yen.
