The eight members of an MPI work team are scheduled to work in the province for 45 days.

 The MPI inspectors will work with the Khanh Hoa Department of Planning and Investment and provincial agencies on investment licences and compensation, land-use rights and site clearance.

 Based on their findings, the MPI work team will then propose measures on how State management can be changed.

 According to figures from the Khanh Hoa Department of Planning and Investment, total registered capital in tourism and resort projects in the province amounts to more than US$1 billion plus VND11.5 trillion ($555 million).

 However, implementation of many of these licensed tourism and resort projects has been delayed, causing a waste of land resources and obstacles in tapping tourism potential. According to a report from the Khanh Hoa Department of Planning and Investment, between 2007 and 2011 the provincial authority licensed 30 tourism and resort projects located in a tourism complex on northern Cam Ranh Pennisula in Cam Lam District.

 However, due to delays in implementation, only seven of these projects were granted construction licences while only six projects finalised compensation and land-clearance steps.

 The provincial authorities of Khanh Hoa have extended the duration for implementation of each project several times, but little progress has been made, according to the department.

 (Source: VNS)

According to a report of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, of the total, foreign visitors rose by almost 80%. The province’s tourism sector earned VND22 billion in revenues. On January 4, the Ocean Princess cruise liner from Hong Kong including 750 tourists aboard arrived in Nha Trang Port, marking the start of high-class international seaway tourism in Khanh Hoa Province this year.

Last year, Khanh Hoa Province welcomed 15 cruise ships with 16,000 foreign tourists.

According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2010 is the year that Khanh Hoa Province attracted the greatest number of foreign tourists, which reached 390,000, up 30% over 2009.

(Source: VNA)

To reach the site from Nha Trang City, tourists must pass through Dien Khanh Old Town and 40 kilometers more through deserted villages. The way to Yang Bay is rather complicated, so tourists should stop frequently to ask locals the right way if traveling independently.

Yang Bay Tourist Area is located on an area of 570 hectares of primeval forest and three waterfalls, namely Yang Bay, Yang Khang and Ho Cho. Yang Bay in the local ethnic language is Raglay, which means Heaven Waterfall. Entrance tickets are VND30,000 per adult and VND30,000 per two children. English speaking tour guides cost VND100,000 per hour and Vietnamese language conducted tours are VND50,000 per hour.

The 800 meter path to the center of the site is shaded by seasoned trees and is lovely with its flowers and creepers. However, anyone too lazy to walk the 800 meters can catch the electric bus for VND10,000.

On the stone steps of the gentle slope, tourists can start the journey to Yang Bay Waterfall with fresh air in the lungs and the relaxing feeling of cool water under the feet. The silence of the site is broken by the roaring of the waterfall spilling onto the giant rocks below. The stream from a height of hundreds of meters looks like a silver carpet under the glistening rays of the sun.

The waterfall sustains several small lakes below, of which the deepest is 16 meters.

The nearby Yang Khang Waterfall offers swimming or bathing in clear water. Bathing suits and buoys are available for rent, VND60,000 to VND70,000 for swim suits and VND5,000 for buoys.

After working up a hunger from the hiking and swimming, tourists can stop at Yang Khang Restaurant or Yang Bay Restaurant which was built in the traditional architecture of the highlands. While enjoying some food, locals will perform on ethnic musical instruments.

In the distance is a colorful orchid garden with many kinds of orchids brought from southern provinces. Tourists can also hire a horse-drawn carriage to enjoy the flower garden as well as the site.

Less than a thousand meters away is the pristine Ho Cho Waterfall with its wonderful surrounding landscapes.

An overnight stay ensures tourists a chance to enjoy a stone musical instrument performance and an old fashioned campfire in the great outdoors.

This beautiful landscape is endowed with wonderful natural sceneries and beaches of fine sand, an ideal temperate climate, surrounded by hills, mountains and tropical forests. The sea is all the more embellished with colorful coral reefs, vestiges of mangrove forests, rare sea creatures in an ideal environment. These are great potentials for the development of ecological tourism in Van Phong. In the plan toward the year 2010, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism declares Van Phong as “the most important region for tourism development”. There are many forms of water sports and uphill tourism here, including sea diving, water skiing, sail boating, mineral water bathing and hunting.

At present, Van Phong is ranked 1st of the 4 ideal sea tourist centers by the Sea World Association.

Carpeted with a green tropical forest throughout 4 seasons, the long sandy coastline winds like a mermaid exposing the smoothness of the Creator by thousands of pampering waves onto the shore all day and night. Underneath the uneven cliffs is the blue water as clear as crystal abounds with many kinds of coral reefs blooming in hundred-pink and thousand-purple colours, and hundreds of schools of fish swimming heartily here and there like visitors flocking to festivals. All seem to be fairy like and dreamlike.

There are 200 nice and colourful camps on the island. When attending the camp-fire, visitors will drink can wine, eat baked-meat and sing all night.

In the black-stone caves of Hon Mun, every year flocks of swallow migrate to the area and build their nests. Due to the island’s location adjacent to the hot sea-currents from the equator, suitable to the development conditions of corals and various types of tropical sea creatures, the sea bed of Hon Mun is home to an abundant and diverse group of marine species, an interesting and useful place for researchers, oceanographers and tourists to observe and explore more of the sea creatures’ life.

In Hon Mun, visitors can dive or take grass-bottom boat to admire the colour coral and sea creatures.

Hon Chong is divided into two parts. One part is situated offshore and the other is in the sand dunes at the Cu Lao Fishing Hamlet. The offshore cluster includes layer after layer of massive rock emerging from the sea. These layers of rocks act as natural wave breakers.

The Hon Chong Promontory, located in the sand dunes, looks like the work of a giant, who carelessly put several massive rocks together. On one side of the rock, facing the sea, there is a deep handprint with the five fingers close together.

One goes to the north to the rice fields and another overflowing a hard rock, platform to the east, joining the Cai River.

The charming scenery has given birth to many legends; fairies would leave Heaven to come bathing at the stream. Male deity played chess on stone blocks. Foot prints left by a giant who, in a moment of enchantment when seeing the fairies swimming, slipped and nearly fell down into the water.

Tourists can find at Con Se Tre a lively image of old villages, which once and for all have appeared in our dreams today or your childhood in a peaceful space, clean seashore, poetic settings, traditional customs and perfect services.

Mountains are surrounding so that the territorial waters are out of winter. Cam Ranh takes only an hour to International Maritime Line by seagoing vessel(Haiphong is 18 hours).

Trade port in Cam Ranh Bay is called Da Bac which is in Ba Ngoi Town, so it is also called Ba Ngoi Port.