A Complete Guide to Visiting the City of Nha Trang With its beautiful backdrop and pleasant weather, Nha Trang is the ideal location for a perfect couple's getaway. This guide will give you some tips and suggestions to help you create your own style of romantic trip (because the definition of romance differs for everyone). Once a set of sleepy fishing villages (Xuon Huan, Phuong Cau, Van Than, Phuong Sai, and Phuoc Hai), Nha Trang has grown into one of the most popular ecotourism sites in Vietnam, a beautiful residence for its 500,000 inhabitants. Nha Trang was originally part of the Cham Empire, which spread over what is now central and southern Vietnam from approximately 100 A.D. to 1832. During the days of the Champa, the area was called Kauthara, though in more recent times it may also have been called Ya Trang (Reed River) to mark its location on the Cai River, before it was officially renamed Nha Trang in 1698. It wasn’t until 1924, when the Governor-General of French Indochina made the townlet the capital of the Khan Hoa Province, that Nha Trang really started seeing growth. The French, noting the incredible beauty of the protected bay against which the five original villages nestled, along with the long, golden sand beaches, and the heavily forested mountains—abundant with wildlife—that ring three sides of the city, recognized Nha Trang as the perfect spot on which to build a resort town. All the elements that originally enticed French pleasure-seekers still delight a growing number of tourists from both Vietnam and abroad. Best Time to Visit Nha Trang’s tropical savannah climate means you’ll get mostly lovely weather during the area’s long dry season, from January to August. In the hottest months, from May to September, average high temperatures hover in the low
A Complete Guide to Visiting the City of Nha Trang With its beautiful backdrop and pleasant weather, Nha Trang is the ideal location for a perfect couple’s getaway. This guide will give you some tips and suggestions to help you create your own style of romantic trip (because the definition of romance differs for everyone).
