Stop over Bau Trang when you come to Phan Thiet

Tourists may cannot help surprising climbing up to the sand hills then see a silvery lake sparkling under the radiant sunshine and flickering pink lotus flowers behind green leaves create a natural poetic landscape.

Located about 65km off Phan Thiet to the North-east, Bau Trang belongs to Hong Lam hamlet, Hoa Thang commune, Bac Binh district. There are two ways to come to Bau Trang. You can go by jeep along the road from Hon Rom (Thatch Islet) to Mui Ne, across the Mui Ne market and Doi Hong and continue head to the sea. It takes about 1 hour to go from Mui Ne to Bau Trang this way. Another choice for you is to go along highway 1A from Phan Thiet to Luong Son, turn right at the three-ways crossroads then go for more 18km across the bare hill, go up and down, across the forest of “so do” trees and green coconut forest on poetic white sand hills and you will be there.

Bau Trang has formed long time ago as one large lake. Afterwards, they make a sand dam across the lake as a path. The large lake had been devided into 2 parts: small lake and big lake.

Since “Bau” means “lake” in the dialect here, for a long time, local people has called the small lake Bau Ong (Man Lake) and the big lake Bau Ba (Woman Lake). Bau Ba is larger than Bau Ong and contain more water. Bau Ba is 70ha in area, the widest area is 500m long, the average deep is 5m and the deepest place can reach 19m in rainy season. The closer to the land, the less deep the lake is.

For lying among white sand dunes, Bau Ba is called Bau Trang [which means “white lake”] as well. Nowadays, it’s also named Bau Sen [which means “lotus lake”] as lotus flowers cover the surface of the lake in its blooming season. The biota in Bau Sen is really rich with many types of freshwater fish such as anabas, snakehead, catfish, carp…

Surrounded by white sand dunes, the lake is more beautiful in the sunlight and blasts of wind endowed by nature. Looking down from the sand hill, you will be impressed by the mirrorlike surface of the lake flickering with pink lotus flowers and the dark color sand dunes far in the distance.

Bau Trang is wild and pristine. However, the nature itself with white sand dunes and the murmurs of sea magically attract who love the beauty to come here finding inspiration for artistic creation.

Coming to Bau Trang, visitors can hire a boat from fishermen to go for a interesting fishing trip full of discovery and enjoyment. The fresh and cool all year round water of Bau Trang abates the hot temperature of immense sand dunes and make the natural scene here so poetic that anyone come here want to take a stop over.