The custom-designed pool by the beach at Hon Tam Resort on Nha Trang’s Tam Islet

With its beauty, wilderness and pure fresh air, Tam Islet is an attractive place to spend a holiday.

The island, seven kilometers southeast of Nha Trang, is being transformed into a four-star resort by Hon Tam-Bien Nha Trang Joint Stock Company. Some facilities of the US$35 million project already opened to tourists earlier this year, while the rest will be ready for business by the end of next month.

Hon Tam Resort has thatched houses amid paved paths and lush lawns. The large custom-designed swimming pool is shaded by 100-year-old trees and decorated with flowers beside a white sandy beach lined with coconut palms.

The resort boasts a 20-meter-high artificial waterfall, a 2,000-square-meter lake, four-star hotel with 224 rooms, and a spacious restaurant where visitors can enjoy sea views.

Activities currently include glass-bottom boat trips to view the mysteries of the ocean floor, surfing, coral reef diving and beach volleyball.

Soon, visitors to Hon Tam Resort will be able to visit Hoang Hoa Thon, a tiny hamlet of five 100-year-old houses relocated to the island from mainland Nha Trang Town, fly in an airship, and play golf at an 18-hole golf course.

Another feature of the Hon Tam Resort is that the wifi Internet covers the whole island.

Tam Islet is noted for its greenery with nearly 100 towering Indian oaks growing with flamboyant, willows, tamarinds, and many other kinds of trees. A variety of flowers and grass are also grown in the area and on the hillsides.

For a relaxed fun break, Hon Tam Resort is the ideal place.

Reported by Phan Huy Tram