Eyeing flying fish on the Ô Loan Lagoon
Ô Loan Lagoon has much more to offer tourists than its well-known delicious seafood and wonderful scenes at sunrise and sunset. It has another “specialty”: the generosity of its people. By Bạch Liên, the hotel receptionist in Tuy Hòa City of Phú Yên Province told me that the best time to visit Ô Loan Lagoon was about 5am, when the sun rises and local residents go fishing, an ideal moment to capture landscape photos. He added that besides, Ô Loan has nothing more for tourists. Just a lagoon where locals breed seafood. He was wrong. Heavy rain in the early morning prevented us from starting our journey as early as we had expected to contemplate wonderful scenes at sun rise. After driving 20 kms from Tuy Hòa centre, braving rain and wind, we arrived at Ô Loan Lagoon at 9. No sun rise but a picturesque scene of this immense brackish water lagoon surrounded by yellow rice paddies and small hills.
