Travel Adventures
LAGI BEACH:
SON MY BEACH CAMPING Lagi Beach; www. sonmybeach. vn; 0166 291 3558 Price: 100,000vnd to pitch your own tent | 150,000vnd per person to rent a tent
Quiet, quirky and colourful, camping at Son My Beach is very relaxing indeed
KE GA BEACH:
After an inland stretch through an agricultural landscape backed by towering sand dunes, the Ocean Road climbs a hill. At the top, there’ s a sign for‘ Son my Beach’ to the right. Follow this pretty, paved lane over the hill, through cassava plantations and down to an isolated patch of empty sand: this is the site of Son My Beach Camping. Quirky yet quiet and understated, this is a wacky collection of wooden beach huts, tents, and thatched gazebos. Pitch your tent on the sand or on wooden pallets in the colourful gardens. The restaurant and bar are great places to relax and watch the fishermen come and go on coracles. There’ s a very appealing laid-back ambience here, which is helped by the fact that it’ s in the middle of nowhere – which suits me fine. An excellent place to escape urban Vietnam on the cheap with a couple of friends for a day or two.
LU GLAMPING CAMPSITE Ke Ga Beach; 090 366 6778 Price: 50,000vnd to pitch your own tent | 75,000vnd per person to rent a tent
After passing the salt fields northeast of Lagi, the Ocean Road winds through dragon fruit plantations to the tiny hamlet of Ke Ga. Just before the village, there’ s a wooden signpost on the right for‘ Lu Glamping’, leading down a dirt road to the beach. Opening in December 2016( just in time for the best camping weather), Lu Glamping is set to join the the ranks of trendy campsites on the south coast, attracting Saigon’ s bright young things on weekends and holidays. Taking its cue from Coco Beachcamp( as have so many others), Lu Glamping has a wacky and fun assortment of bric-a-brac lying around its grounds( including a painted mini-bus), among which are a variety of cheap sleeping options, a thatched bar and lounge area, a music stage and, of course, a good slice of beach. Within site of the famous Ke Ga Lighthouse( built during French colonial times, in 1899), the setting is beautiful. Camping, whether in your own tent or renting one of theirs, is very reasonable: 50,000vnd and 75,000vnd per person respectively. But you can also sleep in colourfully-painted wooden huts( more like quirky coffins) or in a converted shipping container with air-con. It’ s a lot of fun.
Lu Glamping is a colourful & fun arrangement of cheap sleeping options on Ke Ga Beach The MAG Vung Tau 43