Bãi tắm
Engineered white-sand shoreline on a former fishing island, built after a causeway linked it to the mainland.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the beach on Tuan Chau explores a contradiction: a president who once vacationed steps from this shore, and the fishing families living without electricity or clean water just decades ago. It traces the island's history from a feudal military outpost to Ho Chi Minh's private retreat in the late 1950s, still standing today as a memorial. Before the 1999 causeway, life on the island ran on nets and tides, same as it had for generations.
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