HALONG BAY - WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Halong Bay is one of the world’s natural wonders, and is the most beautiful tourist destination of Vietnam. Halong Bay features more than one thousand awesome limestone karsts and islands of various sizes and shapes. The bay was World Heritage listed by UNESCO at the 18th meeting of the Committee of the World Heritages of UNESCO (in Thailand on December 17th, 1994). Halong Bay is a body of water of approximately 1,500 square kilometers in North Vietnam with a 120 kilometers coastline, in the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf of Tonkin near the border with China, and 170 kilometers east of Hanoi. Ha Long Bay - means "Bay of the Descending Dragon" in the Vietnamese language. The bay consists of a dense cluster of 3000 limestone monolithic islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves such as: Hang Dau Go (Grotto of Wooden Stakes); Hang Thien Cung (Heaven Palace Grotto); Hang Sung Sot (Amazing Grotto); Hang Trong (Drum Grotto)… Wherever you come from, whoever 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.

Islands in Halong Bay

Viewed from above, Halong 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. 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. Hòn Ðầu Người (Human Head Island); Hòn Rông (Dragon Island); Hòn Lã Vọng; Hòn Cánh Buồm (Sail Island); Hòn Trống Mái (Male and Female Chicken Island); 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.

Grottoes in Halong Bay

Inside the stone islands are various breath-taking caves, such as Thiên Cung, Ðầu Gỗ, Sửng Sốt, Trinh Nữ, Tam Cung and others. Each one has its difference beauty. These are really magnificent palaces of the Creation on earth.

Beaches in Halong Bay

There are many natural beautiful beaches, both popular and evasion kinds scatter in the Bay such as Bai Chay beach; Titop beach; Quan Lan beach; Soi Sim beach; Van Don beach; Ba Trai Dao Beach…

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HALONG BAY - WORLD HERITAGE SITE

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