Scuba Diving & beach Camping in Cu Lao Cham Island, hoia Travel Guide-Hoi An Vietnam

PADI scuba diving trip from Cham Island Diving Center 25.08.06. $90 pp. Included: 2 open water dives, 3 meals, minibus collection, on beach camping, facilities, & tour guide

Beach party Cu Lao Cham Islands - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam
The boat landed on the beach in Bay Bim. It was going to be a hot one, not a cloud in the sky! The scuba divers went out & we went snorkeling.

Scuba Diving Cu Lao Cham Islands - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam

The diving experience off Cham Island offers many caves and swim throughs over rocky reefs whilst in shallow depths there are abundant colours with hard and tropical corals swarming with small reef fish.

Beach party Cu Lao Cham Islands - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam

The boat landed on the beach in Bay Bim. It was going to be a hot one, not a cloud in the sky! The scuba divers went out & we went snorkeling.

Cu Lao Cham travel guide - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam

"Vietnam paradise islands with coral reefs & quiet sandy bays, similar to Thailand thirty years ago". It''s 20km from Hoi An: we had to check it out! Our first trip to Cham & loads of beach photos

A brief history of Vietnam from Cu Lao Cham - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam

3000 years ago Cu Lao Cham was first inhabited by the Champa people. From Cham the Champas colonized Central Vietnam. They were the first to discover & export swallow''s nests (salagne).

Cu Lao Cham Islands - Legends & Traditions - Hoian Travel Guide - Hoi an Vietnam
Temples for those who die young: many homes have a shrine to worship miscarried babies or children who died young. The belief is: young souls have great superpowers & get angry, unless worshiped by the family