Vietnam
Binh Hung Island
Floating wooden platforms where fishermen feed lobsters by hand in deep, sheltered turquoise bays.
The lobster surfaces in the cage and the fisherman reaches in bare-handed. The wooden platform sways beneath your feet — it's floating, anchored in a turquoise bay, and the lobsters are being raised directly under the living quarters. Dinner is grilled on the raft. The only way back to shore is by boat. The stars are ridiculous.
Binh Hung is a small island off the Cam Ranh coast in Khanh Hoa Province, surrounded by floating lobster farms built on wooden platforms anchored in sheltered turquoise bays. Fishermen raise spiny lobsters in cages suspended beneath the decks of their floating homes, pulling them up to feed by hand several times daily. Overnight stays on the rafts include seafood grilled directly on the platform. The island is a five-minute boat ride from the mainland but feels completely disconnected from it. The water clarity allows direct observation of the lobster cages from the surface. The surrounding bays hold additional floating farms producing grouper, cobia, and sea bass.
Couple
Sleeping on a floating raft above lobster cages in a turquoise bay, eating grilled seafood under the stars — Binh Hung is the most unexpected romantic night in Vietnam.
Friends
Grilling lobster on a floating wooden platform, swimming directly off the deck, and falling asleep on the water — this is the group dinner that nobody will believe actually happened.
- Lobster farms float on wooden platforms in the bay — fishermen pull cages from beneath the deck and feed them by hand.
- Overnight stays on the floating rafts include grilled seafood cooked on the platform as it sways with the tide.
- The turquoise water is clear enough to watch lobsters moving in the cages directly below the living quarters.
- A five-minute boat ride from Cam Ranh coastline delivers a world that feels completely disconnected from the mainland.
Spiny lobster pulled directly from the cages beneath your feet, grilled with scallion oil.
Sea urchin porridge served on the raft as the wooden deck sways with the tide.
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