From the central coastal city of Quy Nhon, the picturesque Yen Island which is also called Phuong Mai Peninsula with its towering cliffs looks like a giant dinosaur protecting the city from storms and heavy seas. The island is a wonderful landscape with caves of ten thousands of years and stone blocks in hundreds of meters in high. The bed of cave is large but full of obstacles and difficult of access, it becomes the best places for swallow to make their nests.
To visit Yen Island, travelers have to take a two hour boat from the wharf on Tan Islet in Hai Cang Ward. Reaching the island, visitors shall have a chance to see the spectacular scenery outside the caves. And upon arrival at the caves, visitors will be surely surprised at the imposing and gigantic space. In the cliff, amongst water drops there remain the white dots like sparkling stars in the summer sky. They are swallow nests which are inserted one another into long chains. Sometimes travelers also can hear the sound “chuck chuck” by birdies to ask their parents for the food. The mixture of the sound from wave, water-dropping, wing-flapping, bird-sound, etc create a strange sound that brings visitors to enter a paradise-like space.
When the spring comes together with its warm weather, visitors can see flocks of birds filling the sky. The nature is as beautiful as water-color painting and also endows this land a unique treasure which is swallow’s nest – a high quality product which has become most popular for its healthy quality to people
Besides, Yen Island also contains a lot of historical and cultural relics dating from the Cham era to Nguyen Dynasty such as Phat Loi Pagoda with its mysterious Cham statue, TamHoa Mountain, the site of Tay Son troop’s glorious victory in the eighteen century and Ho Ky Fortress.
Yen Island is the landscape which visitors cannot ignore on their trip to Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh province