City of Beach, Nha Trang

Nha Trang is a city in northern Vietnam. From Jakarta, we must go down first to Saigon (now called Ho Chi Min City) and spent the night there. In the morning we had a flight to the city with travel time about an hour.

The atmosphere was bustling town by people who go home or go to work. The people are eagerly looking at the bikes and their bikes. Most of them wear a mask because it's dusty streets are steaming.

Beyond that, the obvious Nha Trang is Vietnam's leading satellite cities that have potential to beautiful beaches and the sea. The Vietnamese government seems to design the city as the equivalent of Waikiki Beach in Honolulu and promote it heavily.


We can see from the layout of the coconut tree, white sand, and its supporting facilities. Moreover, the exotic atmosphere of the beach that we get tgere, especially at dusk and at night. As the sun dimmed and smoke began billowing steam along the coast road.

We can also enjoy the variety of typical servings of ocean. Shellfish boiled, grilled fish, seafood fried rice, mixed with roasted duck and fried grasshoppers, and various insects to cobra. Hmm, must have a sensational and somewhat bizarre by our tastes, but interesting to try.

What is important to note, life of a city tour will provide a means of life for residents. Along Nha Trang beach grow and small restaurants offering seafood variety of diverse types and creation according to the size of the pockets of the visitors. Lesehan to start from the big restaurants alongside cohesive and harmonious.


What about price? Self-worth and bought both by tourists and local communities. There is no excessive profit taking because they realized that the visitors are loyal buyers and would come back if dissatisfied with their service.


As a result, the economy was not only hung on the tourists who come, but local people also enjoy the products offered. This climate is conducive for tourism are able to integrate and involve local communities in the habit of tourism development. That's what tips might not have our tourism community. In Nha Trang, there are tourists or not, the economic wheel fixed and can not walk.

Vietnam is rich in marine products to be proud to tourists, from a wet to dry. Perhaps we already know some products are so masculine male icons of myth. Call it the blood and flesh of cobra snakes, baby deer, scorpions, or super gecko. The materials were put into the jar and dicencem or soaked in wine is said to increase male potency.

Such goods sold in the market many Trang Thuong Thum , in the town of Nha Trang. Uniquely, the drug was powerful in the market are made from marine products like sea horses, crustaceans (either of what type of species), and many others.

Clearly, a sea-way as a typical product that we can enjoy in Vietnam. See it, dry food from the sea looking to decorate all the stalls and baskets, small baskets (push or hip) such as dried squid, grilled squid, salted fish, ebi, and others. Indeed they have the creative ability of marine product processing very well.

Moreover, Vietnamese people are very fond of eating seafood. So, they have realized that the sea is the main resource buffer their food (food security). Naturally, if they were serious about maintaining marine resources they have.

One other attraction of Nha Trang is a great demand of Po Nagar Temple. At first glance, the platform and forms part of the temple is similar to the Prambanan temple in central Java. When I and his entourage arrived there, some people who are doing Hindu rituals with people dressed like Bali, complete with gloves and headband.

Could they were descendants of the Majapahit who had been sent to apply for Princess Campa? I do not know, who would posture, how to dress, and similar rituals of the Balinese. Perhaps it is only their language that shows the difference.

But if the temple has a history, perhaps we will take the conclusion that the temple did not have a relationship with the Kingdom of Majapahit in Java. Check it, Po Nagar, built around the year 781, about seven centuries before the glory of kingdoms in the archipelago that.

It is located in the middle of Kauthara, near the city of Nha Trang. Temple was dedicated to Yan Po Nagar, the goddess is celebrated in the country of Vietnam is often identified with the Hindu goddess Durga or Bhagawati and Mahishasuramardini (which the Vietnamese called Y Thien Thanh Mau). Goddess latter can we meet at the entrance.

The uniqueness of charming temple could be because it lies on the hill, exactly on Mount Cu Lao. Temple with a height of about 25 meters was the more interesting because it is between two bridges that looked solid in nature and stunning landscape print. The second bridge is XOM and Hon Chong Bong.

As a site related to Hindu religion, it is recommended visitors take off shoes before entering. Of course in addition to maintaining the sanctity of reason, it will also support the site cleanliness. As a result, Po Nagar temple area of approximately 500 hectares berluas very interesting to visit.

Beyond that, the people of Vietnam are the people who are tolerant of religious differences. Religious life there is relatively harmonious and adherents of different religions can live side by side. So, in some corner of the city, we can see the church or mosque (though slightly) standing between the temple or pagoda. Most of the traditional Vietnamese people profess Buddhism, but embracing modern Protestant and Catholic.