Mui Dinh, or Dinh Cape, is a high and out-of-the-way rock mount hidden in a remote area in Phuoc Dinh Commune in Ninh Thuan Province’s Ninh Phuoc District. The site endowed with magnificent surroundings and ideal climate is suggested as good option for nature and adventure lovers.
Nearly 40 kilometers from Phan Rang Commune and near Ca Na Beach, Mui Dinh and nearby Son Hai Fishing Village seem to bring visitors to another world of stillness and peace, different from the outside world of hustles and bustles.
Mui Dinh boasts its charm with a lighthouse standing imposingly with the height of 178 meters. The lighthouse was built in 1908 in front of a two-storey house in French colonial architecture. The site used to be an important military base so it still preserves some gun emplacements, a kitchen, remains of radar scanners and rusted warheads.
Through ups and downs of history and industrial development during more than a century, the lighthouse still illuminates silently onto the ocean where ships and boats drift in the mixed noise of sailors and the waves.
Adventure lovers may be shuddered by strong wind wailing through slits in the doors of the house, creating mysterious howls at night. In the old house with thick walls and very long corridors, the howls evoke a thrilling sensation in the darkness.
Not located on an island but Mui Dinh is completely deserted and bears few traces of human settlement or industrial development. The site is still unfamiliar for tourists as the way leading there is so rocky and bumpy. Visitors have to walk about 10 kilometers along the coastline, then trek to the mountain with dangerous and torturous sections in about one hour. Therefore, tourists should hire a local fisherman in Son Hai Fishing Village to take a motor taxi trip. Good preparation for cloths, water, snacks is necessary for the long journey.
During the way up to the mount, sloping mountainsides in one side and abyss in the other would bring visitors exciting and even risky feelings. However, all sweat and fear will be repelled by splendid surroundings and endless sand dunes as if tourists get lost in a desert.
Standing in the lighthouse to take a panoramic view of below scenery where shimmering figures of ships are vaporous under the twinkles of stars and the moon in the sky, tourists will forget tetchiness of daily life, tiredness of the long journey and escape from the noise of city life.