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Sights to visit
Places
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that you will cruise to in our trip to Halong Bay, Bai Tu Long Bay, Quan
Lan Island, Cat Ba Island. Cruise off the beaten path.
Vong Vieng Fishing Village
Cap La Fishing Village
Cong Do Fishing Village
Cong Dam Fishing Village
Thien Canh Son Cave
Sung Sot Cave
Master Cave
Quan Lan
Island
Hon
Co Island
Titov Beach
Cat Oan Beach
Minh Chau Beach
Bai Tu
Long Bay
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that you will do to in our trips
Kayaking
Fishing
Swimming
Rock
Climbing
Trekking
Cooking
Studying geological values
Studying the biodiversity
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Halong Natural Beauty
The legend of
Hạ Long has it that,
“Once upon a time, soon after the Việt people established their
country, invaders came. The Jade Emperor sent Mother Dragon and her
Child Dragons down to earth to help the Việt people fight against
their enemy. Right at the time invaders’ boats were rushing to the
shore, the dragons landed down on earth. The dragons immediately
sent out from their mouths a lot of pearls, which then turned into
thousands of stone islands emerging in the sea like great walls
challenging the invaders’ boats. The fast boats couldn’t manage to
stop and crashed into the islands and into each other and broke into
pieces.
After the victory, Mother Dragon and Child Dragons didn’t return
Heaven but stayed on earth at the place where the battle had
occurred. The location Mother Dragon landed is nowadays Hạ Long Bay
and where Child Dragons descended is now
Bái Tử Long. The dragons’ tails waving the water created Long Vĩ
(present Trà Cổ peninsula) and formed a fine sand beach over ten
kilometers long”.
Hạ Long Bay is located in the northeastern part of Vietnam and
constitutes part of the western bank of Bắc Bộ Gulf, including the
sea area of Hạ Long City
and Cẩm Phả Town and part of Vân Ðồn island district. It abuts Cát
Bà Island in the southwest. Toward the west is the shore with a 120
km-long coastline. It is located within 106o58’-107o22’ east
longitude and within 20o45’- 20o50’ north latitude. The site is 1553
sq. km with 1969 islands of various sizes, of which 989 have been
named.
The islands in Hạ Long
Bay are mainly limestone and schist islands most lying in the
two main areas: the southeastern part of
Bái Tử Long Bay and southwestern part of Hạ Long Bay. These
islands represent the most ancient images of a geographical site
having a tectonic age of from 250 million to 280 million years. They
are the result of many times of rising and lowering processes of the
continent to form a karst. The process of nearly full erosion and
weathering of the karst created the unique
Hạ Long Bay in the world.
In a not very large area, thousands of islands with different forms
look like glittering emeralds attached to the blue scarf of a
virgin. The area where many stone islands concentrate has
spectacular scenes and world-famous caves and is the center of
Hạ Long Bay Natural
Heritage, including Ha Long Bay and a part of
Bái Tu Long Bay.
The area is recognized as the World Natural Heritage that is the
area of 434 sq. km with 775 islands. It looks like a giant triangle
with Ðầu Gỗ Island (in the west), Ba Hầm Lake (in the south) and
Cống Tây Island (in the east) as its three angle points. The nearby
area is the buffer area and areas classified as national beauty
spots in 1962 by the Ministry of Culture and Information.
Viewed from above, Hạ Long
Bay looks like an extremely vivid huge drawing. This is a
wonderful and skilful masterpiece of the Creation and of nature that
turns thousands of dumb soulless stone islands into fantastic
sculptural and artistic works of various graceful shapes, both
familiar and strange to human beings. Thousands of islands emerging
uneven in the fanciful waves look strong and magnificent but also
mild and vivid. Amidst these islands we feel as if we were astray in
a petrified legendary world. There are many names given to islands
according to their shapes and forms. This one looks like somebody
heading toward the shore: Hòn Ðầu Người (Human Head Island); that
one looks like a dragon hovering above the sea surface: Hòn Rông
(Dragon Island); another looks like an old man sitting fishing: Hòn
Lã Vọng; some look like big sails struggling amidst the wind to set
off for the sea: Hòn Cánh Buồm (Sail Island); then two islands look
like a pair of chicken lovingly playing with each other above the
sea: Hòn Trống Mái (Male and Female Chicken Island); and amid the
vast sea stands an island like a big incense burner like a ritual
offering to Heaven: Hòn Lư Hương (Incense Burner Island). All are so
real that people are taken aback by them. Those stone islands have
experienced unpredictable changes over time and they take different
shapes from different angles of view. Here, we come to realize that
they are not dumb inanimate things but are vivid and soulful.
Inside the stone islands are various breath-taking caves, such as
Thiên Cung, Ðầu Gỗ, Sửng Sốt, Trinh Nữ, Tam Cung and others. These
are really magnificent palaces of the Creation on earth. Long ago,
Hạ Long Bay has been
called by the great national poet Nguyễn Trãi:“a wonder of the earth
erected towards the high sky”. Many men of letters from all over the
world have been taken aback at the grandiose scenery of Hạ Long.
They seem to get puzzled and incompetent as their treasure of
vocabulary is not rich enough to depict the splendor of this place.
Hạ Long Bay is also attached to glorious pages of Vietnamese
history, with famous sites such as Vân Ðồn, a bustling trade port in
the 12th century, charming Bài Thơ Mountain, and not very far away
from here is the Bạch Đằng River which witnessed two famous naval
battles of the Viêt’s ancestors against invaders. Also, Hạ Long is
one of the cradles of human kind with the glorious Hạ Long culture
in the late Neolithic age, discovered at such archeological sites as
Ðộng Mang, Xích Thổ, Soi Nhụ and Thoi Giếng.
Hạ Long is also home to great biodiversity with typical eco-systems
like mangrove forest, coral and tropical forest. It is also home to
thousands of plants and animals of numerous species, for example
shrimp, fish and squid. Some species are particularly rare and can
be found no where else.
With such special values, at the 18th Session of UNESCO’s Council of
World Heritage held on 17 December 1994 in Thailand, Hạ Long Bay was
officially placed on the list of the World Natural Heritage. In
2000, UNESCO recognized it as the World Heritage for the second time
for its geographical and geomorphologic values. This confirms the
global premier value of Hạ Long Bay.
Wherever you come from, whosoever you are and however old you are,
you will certainly experience the same emotion and feeling when
admiring this wonder of stone and water. And great experiences will
always remain even when you leave the place. The legend of Mother
Dragon and Child Dragons sending out pearls to form thousands of
stone islands to stop invaders still serve as the soul of this
invaluable heritage of the world.
Have you ever come to Hạ Long, the unique wonder of the world of its
kind, to admire and explore secretes implicit in the place?
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Bay Guide: Overview | Biological Diversity | Cultural and Historical Value | Value of Geology | Natural Beauty
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