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Jibe’s Beach Club in Mui Ne – Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan Province
in Central Vietnam is a great place to go on a sunny, windy day to
take-in the spectacular scenery with colourful kites flying against a
solid blue backdrop and starched white sails fluttering across the sea
surface. The owner of this resort is Pham Thi Hong Phuong and her French
husband, Pascal Lefebre, who have been recognized as trailblazers in
developing the natural potential for sea sports in Vietnam.
Pham
Thi Hong Phuong and her husband,
Pascal Lefebre .
Pham Thi Hong Phuong is the
owner of the Full Moon Resort and Pascal is an avid water sports
enthusiast as well as a professional in hotel management. He has worked
for resorts belonging to Novotel and Victoria Corporations in Vietnam. His
love for Vietnam cemented their love. They decided to establish Jibe’s
Beach Club, a sea sports club in the vicinity of the Full Moon Resort, and
invested in building material facilities and expanding different forms of
marketing, service and trade. Since 2002 their Club has become a centre
for sea sports including surfboarding, boogie boarding, wind and kite
surfing, kayaking and many more water related activities.
Pascal and his wife have retained services of professional sea sport instructors
from the US, Australia, France and Canada, whose contagious
enthusiasm gets even the most novice water sportsperson controlling a
surfboard or other piece of equipment in a few short hours.
Pascal is
the manager and sole distributor for Starboard Group sea sport products
and has invited many world-ranking professional athletes to Mui Ne to
compete and perform. He has acquired the sponsorship from some great brand
names for the annual windsurf competition entitled Vietnam Windsurf Fun
Cup which has been acknowledged in the system of tournaments under the
Asian Windsurf Tour (AWT) and Professional Windsurf Association
(PWA).
Jibe’s
Beach Club has attracted a large number of sport enthusiasts of different
nationalities to participate in surfing. Many tourism and sea sports
magazines in developed countries have featured the Club as a new
attractive address on a tropical bay to visitors.
Story by Le
Cuong - Photos by Kim
Son
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