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Halong Bay: 170 km away from
Hanoi, Ha Long Bay is the World Natural Heritage
site, one of the most beautiful places on earth.
With its picturesque blend of land and sea, this
one of the world's most precious beauty spots.
Halong is covers an area of over 1,500 km, dotted
with thousands of rocky islands, it really is
a natural sculpture on a gigantic scale.
Numerous large and small islands
of countless shapes rise from the sea along the
200km stretch of coast from the estuary of the
Bach Dang river to Tra Co beach. Local fishermen
have given many of them evocative names according
to their shapes: Cone-shape Cookie, Banana, Small
Fish, Tortoise, Nail, Wading Ox, Wallowing Buffalo,
and many more. The islands are riddled with innumerable
caves and grottoes offering spectacular stalactite
displays. Bo Nau cave, Dau Go grotto and Trinh
Nu grotto are especially worth seeing.
Sail-boats and motor-boats are
available to take you on a panoramic journey of
the bay with visits to some of the caves and grottoes.
Halong Bay is an experience that will stay with
you forever.
Cat Ba island: A tour to Cat
Ba can be combined with a visit to Halong Bay.
This is the largest island in the Cat Ba Archipelago
that consists of 350 limestone outcrops adjacent
to Halong. This is an oasis where you can be apart
for one or a few days during a long voyage. If
starting from Halong Wharf it will take you 4
hours by a tourist boat, with stopovers for swimming,
visiting spectacular karst and having fresh seafoods.
In a single word, you can contemplate the beautiful
scenery of Halong before reaching the island.
You can also buy a ticket of the hydrofoil departing
from Hai Phong Seaport to reach Cat Ba if your
itinerary saves Halong for another visit.
With an area of 356 square km
wide, Cat Ba encompasses forested zones, coastal
mangrove and freshwater swamps, beaches, caves,
and waterfalls. In 1986, the Northeast side of
the island was designated a National Park, including
a protected marine zone. Cat Ba Island supports
a population of over 20,000, most of whom live
off fishing or farming in the South, in and around
Cat Ba Town. The town is small and ancient, with
clusters of fishing boats and inspiring sunsets
across the harbor. You can check out the catch
of the day in the early morning , see cuttlefish
dried over hot charcoals, or stroll around the
old town. It's a short hike from Cat Ba town through
a tunnel to Cat Co Beach, whose mountains look
like a throne holding a marvelous sandy coast,
or if you hike further along, you will reach the
rockier Cat Vang Beach.
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