Vung Tau Light
Cao Trang Light
Ganh Rai Light
Vung Tau is a cape about 65 km (40 mi) southeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam. The historic Vung Tau light station, established by the French in 1865, has guided generations of arriving mariners. The present Vung Tau Light is the third tower at the station, built in 1913. Sometime after the Vietnam War it was encased by concrete buttresses. In 1898, the French built a second, smaller lighthouse at Cao Trang, at the western point of the Vung Tau peninsula, and more recently the Vietnamese government added a third light at Gai Ranh on the northwest side of the peninsula. In 2007, the Vietnamese government renovated the Vung Tau lighthouse and replaced the Cao Trang lighthouse with a new tower. Howard Garner visited Vung Tau in March 2008 and contributed these photos of the three lights.
Vung Tau Light |
Cao Trang Light |
Ganh Rai Light |
All photos on this page copyright 2008 Howard Garner; used by permission.
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Posted March 21, 2008. Site copyright 2008 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.