Quy Nhon Panorama from Above

An aerial view of the coastal city of Quy Nhon, the administrative centre of Binh Dinh province on the central coast of Vietnam. A strip of white beach, a ridge of low green mountains, a sparsely built-up seafront with low buildings. One of the quietest seaside cities in the country, rarely appearing on tourist routes. The city grew out of a fishing village and a port at the entrance to the Thi Nai lagoon; in 2006 a bridge about two and a half kilometres long was thrown across the lagoon, which long remained the longest sea bridge in Vietnam and opened the way to the Phuong Mai peninsula with the bays of Eo Gio and Ky Co. The city beach stretches in an arc for several kilometres along Xuan Dieu street, and beyond the southern cape of Ghenh Rang the rocky coves begin. In the Quy Hoa valley next to the cape a leper colony was opened in 1929, where the poet Han Mac Tu died in 1940; his ashes were later moved to the slope of Ghenh Rang, and the grave stands right above the bay. The surrounding area was the core of the Cham principality of Vijaya, so brick towers and the remains of fortress ramparts are scattered around the city.

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