My Khe Beach

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A perfectly lovely little beach, My Khe Beach is located about 15 km from Quang Ngai's town centre. It's almost as convenient to stay here as it is to stay in town, and you won't be missing out on anything by avoiding Quang Ngai town itself.

It makes a lot of sense to combine a visit to the beach with a visit to the Son My Museum, however dark the irony of it all may be. My Khe is lined with seafood places where you can sit and relax under shady umbrellas between dips in the water. Only a small patch of the beach is developed -- the rest goes on for miles to the north and south and is relatively deserted.

The restaurant owners can be pretty aggressive about trying to get you to choose their place, but all the places are pretty much the same, so settle in anywhere you like. We found the kids begging here to be extremely persistent. We've heard a good report about Pho Bien, which is a bit past the main gaggle of restaurants.

The only downside is that there are only two main hotels to stay anywhere near the beach, so have someone call ahead for a room if you plan to stay here so you don't get stranded. The aforementioned Pho Bien also has quite smart rooms for rent apparently. You'll find internet joints in the area, but for anything else, you'll be heading back to the big smoke -- Quang Ngai.

Most of the buses to Quang Ngai drop off along Highway 1A on the outskirts of Quang Ngai proper, so all you have to do is get off on the north side of the Highway 1A overpass and you're almost in My Khe beach -- pick up a xe om at the junction with Highway 24B, about 20,000 dong depending on the time of day, or give Mailinh Tourist a call for a taxi.

The beach is about 10 km further to the east on Highway 24B. Motortaxis should be available any time buses are letting off at the junction, but if you're stuck, walk down the access road and take a right -- the My Tra Hotel is two kilometres to the west, near the river bridge. To get out of town, reverse the process.

Accommodation: My Khe Beach
Hy Suu Guest House | My Khe Resort |

Text and/or map last updated on 21st August, 2009.

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2012 Update My Khe/Tinh Khe

Down to only 2 Hotels now, after the reclamation work at the southern end of the beach, they closed the 2 Hotels that were there, ( and demolished the unfinished one, plus a storm damaged Restaurant ), the MY Khe Resort is 300k p/n, with modern rooms, restaurant, Wifi and big cable TV, sauna, ( with extra's available ), and only across the road from the beach, 5 minutes walk from many local outdoor restaurants, otherwise its the small Hotel back over the bridge, only 150k p/n, but very basic.
There is a small cheap ,'Inn ' with rooms, could be interesting, it's beside/inside? a karaoke establishment.
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By bluenz (dabbler)
Written on 15th April, 2012 after a visit to My Khe Beach in April, 2012

Also reviewed by bluenz: Quang Ngai,
Been living here for over 1 yr now Dec 2011

Things have changed dramatically in the past year here, new Resorts have been built and are being built, I know the semi finished Hotel beside the Hotel Archmicheal stayed in, I was thinking about buying it to fix up and live in it, but as everywhere these days, the land prices have sky rocketed, ( Tinh Khee, the village/town beside My Khee, is being planned for the next city around here in 2015, now the land prices will go mental ), much of the land over the bridge has been reclaimed, for sub division, ( more likely more Resorts, someone will be making a lot of money here, they took the land of the locals and compensated them with a paltry amount, closer to poultry really ).
The beaches are nearly the same as most VN beaches, if you want to see pollution, go into Tinh Ky, a fishing village about 3 or 4 kms further n.e, 2 or 300m of a nice white sandy beach has rubbish 30 or 40cm thick, I couldn't believe it.
There are only 3 ' Foreigners' living here, although most locals have scooters and cellphones, the way of life is the same as it was 30 or 40 yrs ago. But by now the hotels will have cable TV and Wifi.
An interesting, but sometimes frustrating place to live.
I have many photo's available, feel free to e-mail me and I will send you some.
Cheers Chris.
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By bluenz (dabbler)
Written on 21st December, 2011 after a visit to My Khe Beach in December, 2010

Also reviewed by bluenz: Quang Ngai,
Much left to be desired ...

"A perfectly lovely little beach"? I think not. We were there for three nights, 29-31 March '09, and stayed at the so-called My Khe Beach Resort (reviewed in Travelfish). Difficult to find ... mainly due to the lack of signage. Nonetheless, the rooms were fine ... US$25 per night. Decently clean. If you needed anything, the staff had to be tracked down. The up-side, of course, being that you were let alone.

The area along the beach has the air of a development that was begun and then halted. Next to and behind our hotel, were similar buildings, abandoned part way through the construction process. And abandoned for a couple of years or so, from the look of things.

No WiFi or internet in the hotel, but I found an internet storefront a few hundred meters away, on the inland road that parallels the beach. I stepped into a room full of 13-16 year old Vietnamese boys, all focused on computer monitors. The room stopped when I walked in. The person running the establishment was a cigarette-smoking 13 year old (or so he looked). The whole thing was amusing, but got online and had a great connection.

My Khe Beach is across the road from the My Khe Beach Resort, through the Causurina trees that line the sand. Beautiful, really. Until you get to the beach. Very sadly, it's filled with trash. Broken light bulbs ... incandescent and fluorescent ... washed up and broken on the beach. All manner of other trash and flotam all over. Some stretches are comparitively clean, however, especially if you walk south from the hotel area. There's a fishing village two or three km south of the hotel, behind the trees. Interesting, round fishing boats.

We didn't have a problem with kids or others trying to sell us things on the beach or elsewhere in My Khe. Rather, we were something of a curiousity (relatively few Western tourists come there, I think).

North of the hotel a couple of hundred metres are a line of restaurants, numbered from north to south. "The restaurant owners can be pretty aggressive about trying to get you to choose their place..." Yes ... without a doubt. Off-putting, and we ended up eating several times at a restaurant a bit further up the shore: called Pho Bien.

Pho Bien was good. A guy there spoke a wee bit of English. The menu was 100% in Vietnamese, but he explained well. Anyway, the beer was cold, and that always helps. One night we had steamed clams, caught that morning off the beach where we ate. Excellent -- lemongrass, ginger, clams. Probably the best part of our experience at My Khe.

The Pho Bien has a couple of rooms, one of which I looked at. Very clean, brand new.And they were only asking US$10 a night. We were already settled into the other place and didn't feel like moving, but Pho Bien's rooms had a nice quality to them.

The weather was great, except for a torrential downpour on the last night. The biggest disppointment was the state of the beach ... just an absolute mess!

It's close to Son My (My Lai), which absolutely should be seen. Also, closer to Highway QL-1, on a mountain, is the Tien An pagoda and temple. Marvelous. Very well known within Vietnam. Ask someone to show you the road up the mountain to it, as it's not well marked. On a good day, great views from the mountiantop, also. Worth seeing.
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By Archmichael (dabbler)
Written on 17th May, 2009 after a visit to My Khe Beach in March, 2009

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