Visiting Phu Quoc for the first time, you cannot ignore the beautiful beaches around the island, considered the beach paradise in Vietnam.
Spending time on the beaches is the top activity to do, which enriches your holidays here.
Below are the top 5 beautiful beaches in Phu Quoc that you may want to get information to range your journey to them.
1. Long Beach (Bãi Dài)
- Location: 20 to 25km from Duong Dong Town, northwest of Phu Quoc Island.
- Highlight: 15-km long beach, the outdoor BBQ party right on the beach.
- What to do there: Join the outdoor BBQ party at night is very exciting. Enjoy seafood, swim, or go camping overnight there.
- Places to stay: Vinpearl Luxury Phu Quoc or Radisson Blu Resort Phu Quoc.
Longer description of Long Beach:
With a 15km-long coastline from Ganh Dau Cape to Cua Can, people call this beach Bai Dai, meaning a long beach.
Bai Dai stays on the northwest island, near the primeval forest, so the cool temperature there always covers. In addition, the fresh wind blowing from the sea creates a perfect place for travelers to relax.
Bai Dai is also honored to be ranked number one in the most beautiful beaches in the world, compiled by ABC News in 2008.
Although the rapid speed of tourism development helps the increase in hotels and resorts, most areas of Bai Dai still keep their charming inherent wildness.
Long Beach is famous for its long stretch of white sand, clear water, and green trees growing on the beach.
Nature gives this place a beauty that few beaches in Vietnam can match.
Thanks to the open space and view, you can also stand from the beach to observe the nearby small islands such as Mong Tay Island and Doi Moi Island.
Along with regular activities such as sightseeing, swimming, or other recreational activities, a highlight point that makes Bai Dai more popular is the outdoor BBQ party right on the beach.
Thanks to favorable conditions such as an airy beach, moderate slope, and blue poplar rows, all are essential elements for a barbecue party to give up all stress away.
The rich supply of seafood such as shrimp, crab, fish, sea urchins, and oysters is fresh. It is because they came directly from the local sea, being the main factor, which also creates the typical culinary features there.
You can buy seafood from the fishermen or catch them yourself if you have experience. Note that you should go with locals.
In the evening, there are also many interesting activities. It’s still a barbecue party, but the evening is much more exciting than the day, thanks to the addition of a campfire and overnight camping.
This good opportunity helps people to interact with each other. So, many companies have brought their employees there to participate in team building.
Or, if you don’t like the noise, the long coastline will be enough to serve you for an evening of relaxing, walking around the beach, and catching the night breeze with a bit of coolness.
2. Truong Beach (Bãi Trường)
- Location: Close to Duong Dong Town of Phu Quoc Island
- Highlight: 20km-long beautiful beach, good services for relaxing
- What to do: Swimming, relaxing with massage on the beach, taking beautiful pictures at sunset, tasting great seafood
- Where to stay: Lahana Resort Phu Quoc, Philip Bungalow Phu Quoc, or Thien Thanh Resort Phu Quoc
Longer description of Truong Beach
Bai Truong is the largest complex and the longest beach in Phu Quoc Island, located in Duong Dong town. Around the Bai Truong area, there are many beautiful resorts and hotels.
The coastline of Truong Beach extends about 20km from Dinh Cau Cape to the north of An Thoi port. This is one of the most beautiful beaches on Phu Quoc Island, with wild beauty, blue sea, white sand, and golden sunshine.
Bai Truong is divided into two main beaches: South Long Beach (about 15km from Eden Resort Phu Quoc to Khoe Tau Ru) and North Long Beach from Dinh Cau Port to the south of Eden Resort Phu Quoc.
This beach in Phu Quoc is also known as a stretching beach, which is why many tourists confuse it with Long Beach (Bai Dai) mentioned above.
The best time to travel to Phu Quoc to explore Truong Beach is in the dry season, from October to April next year. At this time, the temperature ranges from 25 – 32 degrees Celsius, cool and less rainy, suitable for swimming and playing.
Coming to this crowded and bustling beach in Phu Quoc Pearl Island, you will be immersed in the blue water and enjoy a relaxing trip. The seawater at Truong Beach is very clear, with fine white sand and a gentle slope.
If you go to Truong Beach in the afternoon, you will admire the beautiful sunset. When the sun gradually disappears behind the sea, it is a romantic sunset with its orange-yellow color, creating a romantic scene.
Besides swimming, watching the sunset, and taking pictures at Truong Beach, there is also a massage service at the beach for you to enjoy relaxing moments. To experience the massage service at Truong Beach, you can go along the beach, and many shops are serving at reasonable prices.
What could be better than lying down and relaxing under the cool coconut shade with massage therapy to dispel all the fatigue of life?
For dining, the area along the beach on Tran Hung Dao Street has many restaurants and popular eateries for tourists at affordable prices.
You can enjoy tasty seafood and local foods of Phu Quoc at Truong Beach, including herring salad, steamed crab, king crab, stir-fried noodles, sea cucumber, and abalone.
In addition, you can buy Cat Mat cake, Phu Quoc fish sauce, pepper, dried fish, and fish sauce as gifts.
3. Starfish Beach (Bãi Sao)
- Location: 25km from Duong Dong Town of Phu Quoc.
- Highlight: Wild and peaceful beach, lots of starfish.
- What to do: You can participate in many highly experiential activities such as jet skiing, kayaking, windsurfing, fishing, snorkeling, coral viewing, etc. Or, simply walking on the beach, lying back and sunbathing on the loungers, enjoying the cool breeze that is enough to make you feel comfortable and relaxed.
- Where to stay: Tay Tien Bungalow, Sea Pearl Resort Phu Quoc.
Longer description of Starfish Beach:
This beach has an interesting name because when night falls, thousands of starfish move onto the white sand, so people named this place Bai Sao – Starfish Beach.
Only 25km from Duong Dong town, you can move there by motorbike, car, or taxi. From the town center, you go south along Tran Hung Dao Street to Highway 46, keep going south for about 25 minutes, and you will meet a bridge.
Going to the end of this bridge, you may ask people how to get to Bai Sao. No worries! It is because the people there are friendly and enthusiastic.
A little note is that the path to Bai Sao is rough. However, in return, you will admire the beautiful scenery.
Tourism has not exploited the starfish beach, so it retains its inherent wild features.
The sand in Bai Sao has a very typical color, not a golden color like Nha Trang beach, nor a dark yellow like Vung Tau beach, but a creamy white color.
Sao Beach has a curved shape in the heart of two mountain ranges running close to the sea, so it has a fresh climate suitable for a great vacation every summer.
In the summer, almost all beaches in Phu Quoc have big waves due to the influence of the southwest wind. But the waves of Bai Sao are quiet, so during this time, Bai Sao attracts plenty of tourists.
The sea there is blue in a peaceful scene. The sea breeze blows gently, the sun is not too harsh, and lying on the hammock swinging by the coconut trees makes you feel that you are lost in paradise on earth.
Bai Sao is at its most beautiful from June to October. You will have a great vacation if you come here at that time. During that duration, the beach is hidden from the southwest wind, so the waves are calm, and the water is clear and blue.
4. Vung Bau Beach (Bãi Vũng Bầu)
- Location: 20km from Duong Dong town, the northwest of Phu Quoc.
- Highlight: Clean water, shallow seawater level, peaceful place.
- What to do: Swimming, diving to see coral reef.
- Where to stay: Fusion Resort Phu Quoc, Vung Bau Resort, Gold Sand Beach Bungalow, Wild Beach Phu Quoc Resort.
Longer description of Vung Bau Beach:
Vung Bau Beach is in the northwest part of Phu Quoc, seemingly hidden between Ong Lang and Long beaches.
The beach is about 20km from Duong Dong town. The easiest way to move to this area is to follow small roads from Ganh Dau Beach.
Vung Bau has a semicircular shape of a length of about 6km and is still quite wild, suitable for swimming, scuba diving, snorkeling, and kayaking.
Compared to other beaches of Phu Quoc, Vung Bau Beach is no less competitive. Its seawater is crystal-clear in both the rainy season and the dry season.
Near the beach are intact vegetation layers, such as woody plants, palm trees, and polar or coconut trees scattered everywhere.
Due to the lower slope of the beach, Vung Bau is safe for families with young children and those who do not know how to swim. In this sea, you can occasionally encounter starfish, conch, and sea urchins in the sand.
The area of Vung Bau Beach also has some standard hotels and resorts to stay overnight.
But, because there are not many restaurants, when it comes to eating and drinking, you can choose the service of motels in this area for 100,000 VND/meal/person, while BBQ grill and seafood buffet will cost about 250,000 VND / person.
In addition to swimming, you can rent a kayak from nearby resorts and move to Mong Tay Island. At Mong Tay Island, you can scuba dive to see corals and fish.
Like all the beaches along the west side of Phu Quoc Island, the sunset at Vung Bau will surprise you because of its beauty during dry-weather days.
This beach is still wild and has quite a few residents in this area, so this beach is the ideal place to enjoy peaceful moments and listen to the waves lapping in your ears.
5. Khem Beach (Bãi Khem)
- Location: 25km from Duong Dong town, the south of Phu Quoc Island.
- Highlight: Beautiful smooth sand, clean seawater, peaceful surroundings, lovely coconut plants.
- What to do: Sport on the beach, diving to see coral reefs, and lying on its white sand to listen to waves.
- Where to stay: Premier Village Resort
Longer description about Kem Beach:
Kem Beach is situated in the south region of Phu Quoc island, about 25 km from Duong Dong Town. You can go there by taxi or private car.
Bai Khem stretches gently in an arc shape, clear and smooth white sand. You will admire the poetic scenery created by white sand and forests here.
Bai Khem Phu Quoc is not as long as Bai Dai or Bai Sao, but it has its charm with rocky rapids randomly arranged on the beach and peaceful surroundings.
The coast has plenty of coral reefs with various colorful colors, which is an ideal place for scuba diving and admiring the beautiful beauty of coral reefs.
Canoe and surfing services are also available here, but only guests staying at the resort in Bai Kem can participate.
At the moment, Sun Group manages Bai Kem to use for vacations and recreation. However, free visitors can enter this area to stroll around and play sports or scuba diving.
In the late afternoon, you can find lots of local people playing volleyball on the beach of Bai Kem. Crowded with the locals creates an exciting atmosphere at the sunset.
If you are a person who likes pearls, Bai Kem is the right place to explore the pearl farm during your time here.
Typically, there is also Gieng Tien (Angel Well) at the end of Bai Khem. Although it is close to the sea, the well is still not contaminated with salt. There are many fairy tales surrounding this. However, the Premier Village resort manages the area of Gieng Tien, so when you want to visit it, you have to come inside this resort.
In short, there is nothing better than lying on the white sand, ignoring all the fatigue and sadness, and immersing in the peaceful scenery of Bai Kem.
The sea breeze blowing gently in your ears, the fine white sand under your feet, the gentle golden sunshine, and the friendliness of the people of Bai Khem will make you quickly fall in love with this place.
With its fresh and peaceful atmosphere, this place is a great choice for trips with family or friends.
Frequently asked questions about Phu Quoc beaches:
1. Which beaches in Phu Quoc Island are good for swimming?
Although Phu Quoc Island has a lot of beautiful beaches, it is good to swim to Vung Bau Beach because of the shallow seawater suitable for family travel. The second Phu Quoc beach to swim in is Long Beach, which has good services for relaxing and swimming.
2. When is the best time to travel to beaches in Phu Quoc?
The best time to visit Phu Quoc as well as its beaches is the dry season, from the end of October to March and for a few years to mid-May of the solar calendar. In this season, Phu Quoc rarely rains, the sea is calm, the weather is cool, extremely suitable for relaxation and swimming.
3. What should I note when swimming in Phu Quoc beaches?
Swimming is so exciting on Phu Quoc beaches. However, when going swimming, you should know these basic rules: swim in the area allowed to, not go far away from the shore, not come to a deep-sea area, and note the rip currents.
Typically, in January of the year, jellyfish often appear. So, when swimming, you also know to avoid them. You should ask the locals or bodyguards which areas jellyfish are in.