Beautiful and poetic Binh Ba Island on Cam Ranh Bay-Travel

Located at the mouth of Cam Ranh Bay, Binh Ba Island (in Cam Binh Commune, Cam Ranh City, Khanh Hoa Province) also has many poetic and wild beauty. This island is also known as the ‘land of lobster’.

Binh Ba Island is located far from the city center. Cam Ranh 7 nautical miles, covers an area of ​​about 300 hectares with about 5,000 households living. This is a small island located at the mouth of Cam Ranh Bay, with an altitude of 0.5 – 204m above sea level. The island has many pristine beaches such as: Bo De, Old House, Cay Ta, Hon Co, Bai Chuong …. hidden between the straits and the sea.

The beaches of Binh Ba island still retain a lot of wild beauty

Binh Ba island village is located at the foot of three mountains Ma Du, Hon Co and Mui Nam. These are mountain ranges that shield Cam Ranh Bay from storms and storms. The people of Binh Ba have lived for many generations peacefully and affluently because they are endowed with an inexhaustible natural source of fish and shrimp.

Binh Ba islanders raise lobsters on Cam Ranh Bay

People on Binh Ba island mainly do fishing and aquaculture, especially lobster. The place Binh Ba has become familiar when it comes to famous culinary specialties associated with the land travel Khanh Hoa has been mentioned by folk songs for many years: “Hon Noi’s Salanganes’Nest / Ninh Hoa Roast Duck / Binh Ba Lobster / Dien Khanh Dried Deer…”.

People’s livelihood in Binh Ba depends on farming and fishing

According to archaeologists, this island has been inhabited since the Champa dynasty (the archaeological site was discovered in 1990 in Cam Binh commune) with the site dating back to the archeological culture of Sa Huynh. Legend has it that at the beginning of the 18th century, there was a group of fishing boats from Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh that were swept by a storm on the island and discovered that the sea was calm and the waves were calm, while offshore storms were still fierce. gave the island a name and brought his brothers, relatives and hometown to the island, and from there gradually built villages and hamlets…

Canoes bring people from the mainland to Binh Ba island

Then, Binh Ba residents discovered Hon Ty island, about 3 nautical miles southwest of Binh Ba, people dispersed on this island and named it Hon Ty island (present-day Binh Hung island).