Ghềnh Đá Đĩa, also known as Ganh Da Dia is a seashore area of uniformly interlocking basalt rock columns located along the coast in An Ninh Dong Commune, Tuy An District, Phu Yen Province, Vietnam. This place own the unique scenery with natural circle and square blocks looking as if the nature arranges that on purpose, The research said that the blocks were created by lava frozen after when it met the cold flow of seawater around 200 million years ago. From the higher view, Ganh Da Dia looks lilke a giant, rough and shiny black honeycomb, or it could be also imagined to be thousands of giant plates stacking on one another waiting in a kiln. This place is an interesting place with its abnormal beauty like an ink painting has charmed countless of tourists for many years.
Ganh Da Dia in Tuy Hoa, Vietnam-a masterpiece of the nature
How to reach Ganh Da Dia
From the city of Tuy Hoa, drive to the North around 30km and turn right at Chi Thanh town to the East, continue to drive around another 15km and it’s there, the Ganh Da Dia.
What is the best time to visit?
Phu Yen is gifted with the nice climate so it is good to visit here at any time of the year, however, to avoid the rain season, the period from March to August, whose weather is dry and cool is ideal.
The blocks look like a giant honeycomb
Also, every year at the beginning of the 2nd and 8th month in lunar calendar (usually at March and September), local fishermen will celebrate a festival to honor their God and ask for a new bumper year. Coming to Phu Yen on these occasions, visitors will have opportunities to join the local festivals.
Ganh Da Dia-its abnormal beauty
The beauty of the place is not for seeing through pictures, you have to reach the place and see it with your naked eyes to find how it truly is. It’s a magic of the nature, thousands of stone plates stacking on one another in the kiln must have taken millions of years of the nature to create. The unusual strong waves attack the stones non-stoppingly creating billions of water foam covering the coastline in white.
The magic beauty as if the fairy land at dawn
Walking along Ganh Da Dia, sometimes you will catch holes that contain rain and sea water, making themselves small swimming pools. You can lean your body against blocks and relax it in the seawater and inhale the fresh air, watch the crabs, starfishes and jelly fishes stuck in the pool after the waves leave.
Little natural pool for relaxing body
If you feel tired, stop by Bai Bang (the beach of Bang tree) to take a short rest under the green trees, enjoy the fresh and delicious seafood and breathe the special air of Tuy Hoa sea.
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