About 35 km north of Quang Ngai city, the scenic spot of Ghenh Yen in Thanh Thuy fishing village, Binh Hai commune, Binh Son district (Quang Ngai) has a wild and magnificent beauty.
Volcanic sediments are stacked on top of each other winding around the shore, creating many interesting shapes. After a long time of research, experts said that volcanic activity in Binh Son Rapids occurred about 5-6 million years ago, later than Ly Son island district (Quang Ngai). The name Ghenh Yen appeared because this place owns a complex of rapids with many small rock cavities, and swiftlets often come here to nest. When the tide recedes, the coral beach here is exposed like a field of flowers that converge and show off their colors.
The coral reef on the seabed appears as if it were on the shore in the afternoon of the first day of the month or the full moon day from April to July of the lunar calendar. An amazing natural phenomenon that attracts photographers from all over the country to record the beautiful "coral forest" in the middle of the dry sea season.
Coming to Ghenh Yen, don't miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in the open sea to see the coral strips blooming like a colorful picture and play with the fish that are bouncing, swimming freely in the middle of the sea. Every day in the afternoon when the sunset falls on the poetic sky, it is like a "meeting" for each flock of birds to return to their nests, creating an extraordinarily peaceful picture.
In order to protect the coral reefs, Binh Son district has assigned guidance officers, recommending that tourists when visiting Ghenh Yen should not step on the coral reefs. This locality is also calling and encouraging investors to do tourism development projects here; at the same time, direct people to develop community tourism in the form of homestays.
According to Zing