Overview
Things to Know
What Makes Mũi Trọ Fishing Village Special
Mũi Trô is a small fishing settlement on the coast of Tuy Phong district in northern Bình Thuận, situated about 2km off Provincial Road 716 along a sandy track leading to the sea. The village is largely absent from digital maps and entirely absent from foreign-language travel content - its existence was virtually unknown outside local fishing communities until Vietnamese campers and photographers began writing about it on social media in recent years. The landscape that frames it is distinctive: a narrow beach of natural rock and pebble formations rather than sand, low hills on the landward side, and the same clear blue Gulf of Thailand water that makes the stretch of Bình Thuận coast around Cô Thạch beach and La Gàn Cape increasingly popular. The village itself consists of a few small houses and dozens of round basket boats - the physical infrastructure of a working fishing community that has not been modified for visitors.
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How to Get There
🚗 Getting There
Mũi Trô is on the Bình Thuận coast in Tuy Phong district, approximately 270km from Ho Chi Minh City. From HCMC, the route goes via National Highway 1A to Phan Thiết, then north on Highway 1A toward Phan Rí Cửa, turning onto Provincial Road 716 toward Cô Thạch beach. From the PR-716 junction, the track to Mũi Trô village is approximately 2km on a sandy road - motorbike only. The broader area around Cô Thạch is about 2.4km from the village; Cô Thạch has basic camping facilities and can serve as a base. From Mũi Né, the distance is about 90km north along the coast. The road quality on PR-716 is reasonable in the dry season but the final sandy track requires care.
What to Expect
👀 On the Ground
A working fishing village with minimal visitor infrastructure - no restaurants, no accommodation, no signage. The beach is rocky and pebbly rather than sandy, with natural rock formations at each end suitable for scrambling and viewing. The water is clear and calm in the dry season, suitable for swimming. Fishermen leave in the evening and return in the early morning, pulling basket boats onto the shore and sorting catch on the beach. The pine grove between the track and the shore is the primary camping area - flat, grassy, and sheltered. At night the beach is quiet except for the sound of the sea and, in the dry season, a reliable breeze. The surrounding area includes the 7-color stone beach and La Gàn Cape within a few kilometers.
Travel Tips
🧳 Tips
Mũi Trô is the kind of place that rewards travelers who are specifically looking for the unpackaged version of coastal Vietnam - a working fishing settlement, a wild beach, and a landscape that has not been modified into an attraction. It sits in a stretch of Bình Thuận coast between Phan Rí and La Gàn that is slowly being discovered by Vietnamese campers and photographers but has not yet been written up in any foreign-language source tao could find. The combination of Cô Thạch beach (base camp with some facilities), the coastal walk to Mũi Trô (genuine fishing village), and La Gàn Cape (lighthouse, dramatic rock formations) makes a coherent 1-2 day itinerary in an area mày will likely have largely to yourself.
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