Exploring the Idyllic Sand Shoreline at Thanh Lan Beach
The sand path is located approximately 200 meters from Thanh Lan Island and 4 kilometers from Co To by sea. According to Tran Van Nam, a tour guide on Thanh Lan, this path only appears about four to eight times a month, depending on the waves. “Not everyone from Thanh Lan can come here, so we call it the path of grace,” Nam said. In the middle of the blue sea, the sand path emerges in the shape of a giant humpback whale, measuring about 300 meters long and 20 meters wide. The sand here is golden, smooth, and stunning on both sides. Photo: Tran Nam 39-year-old Dang Trang, a tourist from Hanoi, and her family visited Co To at the beginning of July and stayed for three days. After exploring the island, they booked a tour of Thanh Lan. “To reach the sand path, we had to start at 7:30 am and arrived there by canoe in about 10 minutes,” Trang said, adding that the 30-minute experience on the sand path was “the best experience of the whole journey.” After visiting the sand pat...