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| View from Christ of Vung Tau overlooking Back Beach |
Vũng Tàu is a city in southern Vietnam. Its population in 2005 was 240,000. The city area is 140 km² (54 square miles) including 13 urban wards and one village. It is the capital of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, and is the crude oil extraction center of Vietnam. It is also known as one of the most beautiful cities of tourism in Vietnam. Locating near Ho Chi Minh city and Binh Duong province, Vungtau associates with these two places to create a triangle of power economy all over the country. (Source: Wikipedia)
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| Hydrofoil Ferry |
Vung Tau is a popular weekend get-away for Saigon residents because it is only an hour and fifteen minute ferry ride, or two hour ride by taxi, away. For our trip we went with the hydrofoil ferry $6/person each way. Vietnam ferries are different from what I think of as a ferry back home in Seattle. This ferry was more like speed boat, shaped like a bullet with 2 rows of airplane seats inside.
Once we made it to our destination it was a quick, easy taxi ride to Back Beach. After hiking on the beach, we checked into our hotel and made our way to the neighboring Beach Club for dinner and a night swim in their Infinity Pool.
The next day we woke up early and made our way to the top of the Christ of Vung Tau, a GIANT statue of Jesus built by the Catholic Association in 1974 and it was completed in 1993. It is 32 metres (105 ft) high, standing on a 4 metres (13 ft) high platform, for a 36 metres (118 ft) total monument height with two outstretched arms spanning 18.3 metres (60 ft). There is a 133-step staircase inside the statue. After a few hours on the beach, walking and swimming we showered up, checked out of our hotel and went to the Vung Tau Lighthouse. Both the lighthouse and the Jesus lookouts gave us great views of the city. Then we hiked back down in to town for lunch before catching our ferry back to HCM.
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| Christ of Vung Tau |
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| Lighthouse |
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| Hike Down the hill from the lighthouse to Vung Tau |
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| Max's favorite statue he spotted from the lighthouse. |
Once we made it to our destination it was a quick, easy taxi ride to Back Beach. After hiking on the beach, we checked into our hotel and made our way to the neighboring Beach Club for dinner and a night swim in their Infinity Pool. 
2 comments:
Great post and pictures about Vung Tau. Wow...I hope you enlarge and frame your Infinity Pool pic. It looks so -- perfectly tropical :-) The "Hike Back to Town" has me wondering -- which town? Vung Tau or HCM? Its so green and quiet looking. Quite a contrast from your busy city and beach pictures!
The Infinity pool was the best :) and the hike was back to Vung Tau to catch the ferry. Vung Tau is a much quieter, beach town compared to HCM. The motorbikes do not travel very fast in the city on average 10 -15 mph and maybe 20 if the street is not too busy.
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