Khanh Vinh /Mountains and waterfalls
Yang Bay is worth the 200,000 VND gate price (2026) if you are taking children or parents and want a full, easy day out of the city. It is the wrong choice if the waterfall is the point: the fall itself is modest, and the park around it, with its hot spring, crocodile farm and animal races, is the real product.
Yang Bay is worth it with children or with parents, and on a day when you want the mountains without any effort. It is not worth it if the waterfall is the point. I have been three times since I moved here, once alone, once after rain, once with visitors, and the verdict has held each time: the fall is modest, the park is large and well run, and the 200,000 VND gate ticket (2026) buys a full day for people who like a full day.
The park is 570 hectares run by Khatoco at the foot of the mountains in Khánh Phú, now part of Khánh Vĩnh commune, 40 to 45 km west of Nha Trang, and it opens from 07:30 to 17:00.
At the gate in 2026 an adult pays 200,000 VND and a child between 1 m and 1.4 m tall pays 140,000 VND; under 1 m is free and anyone 1.4 m or over pays the adult price. Booked online the same ticket was 180,000 and 119,000 VND, and the park’s own site ran an advance-booking promotion at 170,000 and 119,000 VND from April to September 2026. Agents quote all of these differently, so buy at the gate or from a named agent and check what is bundled.
The base ticket covers more than most people expect: the hot mineral spring, the waterfall and stream bathing, the 500-year-old three-trunked sacred tree (Mộc Thần), the crocodile farm and the animal zones, the animal shows, the flower fields, a Raglai music performance at 10:45, the internal shuttle and travel insurance. The extras are where the day gets expensive.
| Item | Price (2026 price lists) |
|---|---|
| Adult, at the gate | 200,000 VND |
| Child 1 m to 1.4 m, at the gate | 140,000 VND |
| Adult, online or on promotion | 170,000 to 180,000 VND |
| Child, online or on promotion | 119,000 VND |
| Mud cosmetic treatment | 300,000 VND |
| Herbal bath | 200,000 VND |
| Bamboo raft, 30 minutes | 100,000 VND |
| Kayak, 30 minutes | 50,000 VND |
| Ostrich riding | 50,000 VND |
| Glamping unit for two, entrance included | 1,200,000 VND |
Smaller than the photographs. The main fall comes down over granite ledges into a green pool, and the trekking operators who walk in from the mountain side describe the whole cascade as seven tiers, but the tier you stand at is a wide, low step rather than a drop. After rain it is loud and brown; in the dry months it is clear and quiet and you can sit in the pool. On my second visit, in the wet season, the water was too coloured to want to swim in, which is the most common complaint in the online reviews and, on that day, a fair one.
I rank every fall I have been to in the waterfalls of Khanh Hoa compared; Yang Bay is the easiest of them to reach and near the bottom for the water itself. That is not the same as saying the day is poor. It is saying the day is not about the water.
The reviews I read before my first visit, and the ones I have read since, repeat the same four things: the waterfall is small, the water can be dirty, the restaurants and the mud bath were closed on some visits, and the treatment of the animals in the shows. I can confirm the first two on the wrong day. The restaurants were open on all three of my visits, but I went at weekends and in season; I would not promise a weekday in the rains.
The animal shows are a matter of taste and I will state mine. The programme is cock fighting, pig racing and duck racing, plus the crocodile farm and ostrich riding at extra cost. The Vietnamese families around me enjoyed the races; I found the cock fighting hard to sit through and did not stay. Decide before you go, because the shows are timed and the shuttle drops you at them.
Families with children under ten, who get a stream to paddle in, animals, a shuttle and a hot spring inside one fence. Parents and older visitors who want mountains without a hike; when my parents visited Nha Trang this was the day out I chose for them, and it was the right call. And anyone in the city on a rainy day who is happy to get wet in a hot spring rather than a cold sea.
It is not for people who want the Khanh Vinh forest on its own terms. For that, the road itself is better: QL27C past the park towards the pass, with the Raglai valleys of Khanh Vinh either side of it. The Raglai performance at 10:45 is the one cultural thing in the park, it is included, and it is easy to miss if you arrive late; it is also a stage show, not a village, and I would not describe it as more than that.
Field note: the sacred tree is the best thing inside the fence. Three ficus trunks grown into one, over 25 m tall and dated by the park at 500 years. Go there first, before the coaches, and you have it to yourself for ten minutes.
West from Nha Trang through Diên Khánh on QL27C, or by the HL62 district road, 40 to 45 km and 60 to 90 minutes by car; on a motorbike it took me a little over an hour each way. Round-trip shuttle buses from Nha Trang are quoted at about 120,000 VND per person, and the park’s ticket office in the city is at 45B Vân Đồn. The road cools noticeably in the last stretch; take a layer if you are on a bike, and swimwear, because the stream and the hot spring are the activity, not the view.
200,000 VND for adults and 140,000 VND for children 1 m to 1.4 m at the gate; under 1 m free. Online and promotional prices of 170,000 to 180,000 VND (adult) and 119,000 VND (child) were listed for 2026.
With children or older parents, yes: a full easy day with a stream, a hot spring, animals and a shuttle. For the waterfall alone, no; it is a modest fall and the park around it is the product.
07:30 to 17:00 daily, according to the sources the Nha Trang guide research used. The park's own price page does not print hours, so treat the closing time as firm and the opening time as usual.
40 to 45 km west, in Khanh Phu, now part of Khanh Vinh commune; 60 to 90 minutes by car. Round-trip shuttle buses are quoted at about 120,000 VND per person.
Yes. Stream bathing at the falls and the hot mineral spring are included in the ticket. After heavy rain the water runs brown and is not worth swimming in; the dry months are clear.
Read on 15 September 2026. Prices, hours and rules change; these are the pages the figures came from.
With one free day I would go to Ba Ho between January and May and scramble to the third pool. Yang Bay is the park for a family, a rainy day or a hot spring, where the fall is the least of it. Ta Gu is the best waterfall of the three, 40 m in one drop and free, but about 100 km away over the Khanh Son pass and worth it only with a night in To Hap.
The Raglai were 49 percent of Khanh Vinh's people at the 2009 census and 73.4 percent of Khanh Son's in 2024. Khanh Vinh has no community tourism village yet, only plans; what you can visit is the Yang Bay stage show, the pomelo orchards and, over the mountain in Khanh Son, the Hon Dung longhouse village launched in June 2025. My etiquette rules are my own.
Hon Ba is the 1,578 m mountain south-west of Nha Trang where Alexandre Yersin built a research station in 1915 and where Tuoi Tre measured 17 to 20 degrees in June 2024. Since a pilot scheme at Tet 2024 the summit is reached with an organised tour, not independently, and I found no 2025 or 2026 statement on whether the 37 km summit road is open.
Yes, ride it, but by day and in the dry months. The pass was shut for over a month after a rockfall killed six bus passengers on 16 November 2025, reopened to all vehicles from 13 February 2026 between 05:00 and 18:00, and in September 2026 the authorities still advised staying off it at night.
