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Long Thuy Beach:
This is a beautiful swimming beach 12 kilometers from the town. The white sand beach is famous for its clear-cut blue water.

Vung Ro:
This is a regionally reputed tourist centre 25 kilometers south of the town. The place is famous for the several several nearby beautiful off-shore islands.

Chua Da Trang (White stone Pagoda):
The pagoda, 20 kilometers north of the town, perches on a mountain slope. The place offers an unobtrusive view of the poetic landscape below.

O Loan Lagoon:
It is 15 kilometres from the town. this is an ideal place for boat trips. the best seafood available is grilled blood clam.

Ganh Da Dia :
Head along the coast of Tuy An, in the central Phu Yen Province, and you’ll find yourself in one of Viet Nam’s most confounding mysteries.  It’s Ganh Da Dia, or the Cliff of Stone Plates, a baffling and beautiful riddle of Nature, and set in stone for all Time.  It’s like a giant jigsaw, irritatingly made of the same shaped pieces, and forming a solidified structure that has proved more than just a curiosity for thousands.

Looking down on it, visitors often liken it to a gigantic beehive, others as a pile of stone plates. Describing it is easy: pinpointing how it got there an impossibility. For despite a lengthy series of historical, archeological and scientific probes of the cliff’s square kilometer, its formation remains a mystery. Even counting the stone columns has failed to yield an exact figure as exhausted researchers usually call a halt at around 35,000.

The stones are 60-80cm in visible height and 20-30cm across and cluster round a small fresh water pond that is fed by underground rivers and never dries up.

Not surprisingly researchers find intriguing - and perhaps frustrating - comparison between Ganh Da Dia and half a world away in Northern Ireland and its Giant’s Causeway, one of UNESCO’s Natural Heritage Sites. There, its regularity-sided pillars form a coastal three-mile long carpet stretching out to sea and, some, think, as far as Scotland - 50 miles away.

Local legend, and the Irish are as keen on them as the Vietnamese, has it that it is the legacy of two giants who competed to connect the two main lands.

Less romantically-minded scientists, some of whom have inspected both, say the true reason for their being is slightly more down to earth - but no less dramatic: a volcanic eruption, several million years ago. That, they say, pushed molten basalt rock up from the earth’s crust where it solidified into the regular forms of both structures.  Either way both have stood the test of uncertain Time, standing firm against the relentless force of often-harsh seas.

Nhan Tower :
It was built near Nhan Mount, on the northern bank of Da Rang river, close to National Highway 1 in Tuy Hoa Town.  Nhan tower is worship place of ancient Cham people in 2th century BC. The tower has quadrilateral shape with four stories, the fourth is smaller than the first. The tower is 20m high, each side of the foot tower is 11m long. The middle gate sharp are with monsters on the top. This top is special one because it was harmoniously combined with the pyramidal symbol with linga symbol, one of Cham’s worship.

During the French colonialist, the tower was nearly ruined. At the end of the year 1960, the tower was rebuilt by the administration of Diem’s regime.  Nowadays, there is only a flat stone with the high of 1,30m and lotus flower carved at the foot of the stone. At the foot of Nhan mountain, there is another stone on which were 3 ancient letters (the same Phan letter).  The stone has square shape, each side is 5m wide. Nhan tower is a symbol for the architectural art of Cham in Phu Yen province.

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