Lang Co Beach - Pride of the central coast:
Last month, Lang Co inspired the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club to make it the club’s 30th member.It’s the third Vietnamese bay to join the club, the other two beingHa Long and Nha Trang bays. The other new members this year are PembaBay in Mozambique and Cartagena Bay in Colombia.
Ha Long in Quang Ninh Province is where the club will hold its annualconference next year, according to general secretary Bruno Bodard.
To celebrate Lang Co’s club membership, the authorities of ThuaThien-Hue Province put on a ceremony and entertainment gala on SaturdayJune 6. The event also kicked off a tourism festival called “Lang Co -The Legendary Beach.”
Lang Co Beach - Unrivalled beauty
Lang Co itself is a fishing village 60 kilometers south of Hue and 40kilometers north of Da Nang, lying between Phu Gia Pass to the northand Hai Van Pass to the south.
Tourists love the area and are flocking there in droves these days, as are the resort developers.
The huge lagoon by the village extends for eight kilometers inlandand is lit up at night by thousands of lamps on fishing boats lying atanchor. The scene has been immortalized in poetry and prose innumerabletimes.
Turquoise water, sweeping expanses of white sand, coconut trees, softcoral extending out for ten kilometers, and a backdrop of seeminglyendless mountains characterize the area.
The best time to go swimming there is from April to late July, whenthe temperature averages 25 degrees Celsius and each month has 158 hoursof sunshine.
Lang Co is rich in marine life with plenty of lobster, shrimp, crab, mackerel and blood ark shell.
At night, local fishermen escort tour parties to the lagoon to catchgobies and to sup on bowls of rice porridge mixed with fresh seafood.
Lang Co - Economic potential
In one of the speeches at the event last Saturday, provincialChairman Nguyen Ngoc Thien said that Thua Thien-Hue would build ChanMay-Lang Co Economic Zone into a modern center of international tradeand tourism.
Above all, the province is looking for investment in environmentallyfriendly projects, human resources and vocational training, Thien said.
Thanks to the 130 meter Chan May Pier and the tunnel under Hai VanPass, it’s much easier for surrounding areas to trade with Lang Conowadays, he said.
For now the focus is on improving tourism infrastructure in the province, which is spending US$65 million for this purpose.
Chan May-Lang Co Economic Zone has already gained 32 licensedprojects with a combined investment capital of almost US$2 billion. Tenof the projects are foreign and account for 71 percent of the capital.
The standouts are Laguna Hue and Bai Chuoi beachside resorts, onwhich Singapore-based Banyan Tree Group and Cattigara have lavished $977million.
As evidence of Lang Co’s growing popularity, the 300-odd guest roomsin the area accommodated more than 8,000 overnight visitors in the firstfive months of this year. 
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