Monday, February 4, 2013

Halong Bay 3days 2nights price 105$


Halong Bay is recognised as a UNESCO world heritage site, and is a truly awesome spectacle. Thousands of limestone island rising out of the clear tuquoise seas. Come spend some quality chilled out time on board our 3* Junk cruising round Halong Bay, kayaking and swimming, then a night on Cat Ba. You'll love it!

Day 1: Hanoi - Halong bay
8h00am: Pick up from your hotel in Hanoi, depart to Halong city.
12h30pm: Welcome drink Board 3* Junk, check-in.
1h00pm: Have lunch on boat.
1h30pm: A fantastic cruise in Ha Long bay to visit Sung Sot cave.
3h00pm: Take a kayak tour through Luon cave.
5h00pm: Sail to Soi Sim island and swim at Titop or Soi Sim beaches. Have dinner on board whilst watching the sunset. Then enjoy some fishing, drinking Vietnamese wine and spending the night on 3* junk.

Day 2: Halong bay - Catba National park monky island.
6h30am: After breakfast, cruise around the bay.
9h00am: Take a bus to Cat Ba national park for a trek through the wilderness, and then make the climb up the hill to the peak of Ngu Lam Mountain to admire the view over the park.
11h30am: Bus back to Cat Ba town & check in your hotel (3*/). Have lunch.
2h00pm: Boat trip around the stunning bay: pass Turtle Island, the floating villages & beautiful beaches. Stop at Monkey Island to enjoy a swim, go kayaking &/or snorkeling.
4h00pm: Visit a floating village to learn about the people’s lives out at sea.
7h00pm: Have dinner and then you are free to discover the nightlife on Cat Ba Island.

DAY 3: Catba island - Halong bay - Hanoi
6h45am: Have breakfast at the hotel, then take the bus back to Gia Luan port and relax on board the Junk to see more of Halong Bay.
11h30am: Have lunch in Halong city.
12h30pm: Take the bus back to Hanoi.
4h30pm: Drop off at your hotel.
TOUR PRICE    $142.4     Promotion:  2.205.000 VND / pax Booking


Coach tour - Daily guaranteed departure 
INCLUDES:
All transportation and transfers
Deluxe Junk trip 3* visit to Halong Bay
Hotel on Cat Ba Island 3*
Meals: 5 seafood main meals, 2 breakfasts
Admission fees and permits
EXCLUDES:
Personal insurance
Personal expenditure, tips, drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers, etc.
Promotion: Applied from 01 Feb to 30 Aug 2012:

Sung Sot cave.

Deluxe room on the boat

Restaurant on boat

Kayaking on bay

View Catba island 

Group tour daily depart from Hanoi to Halong Bay








Halong Bay cruise 2 days & 1 night price 79$


TOUR PRICE   $97.9/Pax   Promotion:  1.659.000 VND / pax Booking
The sea and island zone of Quang Ninh has a unique terrain. There are more than 2,000 islands, making up two thirds of the Vietnam's islands and extending along the coast for more than 250km.The largest islands are Cai Bau and Ban Sen, while the smallest are just like rocks in a garden. With an average depth of 20m, the sea bed terrain of Quang Ninh isn't smooth and contains the remnants of ancient streams and underwater rocky banks. The streams from the mainland connect to deep drains along the sea-floor; creating a series of waterways, canals and harbors along the coast.

Halong Bay cruise 2 days & 1 night on a deluxe 3* Junk
( code: 0211)
Day 1: Hanoi – Halong bay
8am Pick up from your hotel in Hanoi, depart to Halong city
12:30pm Board 3* Junk, check-in
1pm Have lunch on board the Junk
1:30pm Enjoy a fantastic cruise around Halong Bay and visit  Surprising cave (Sung Sot). Afterwards, take a kayak tour through Luon cave. Sail to Soi Sim Island and swim at Titop or Soi Sim beaches. Enjoy dinner on board while watching the sunset. Try fishing with seine, drinking Vietnamese wine, and spend the night on 3* junk.

Day 2: Halong Bay - Cat Ba - Hanoi
7:30am Have breakfast, and then cruise to visit other parts of the Bay on the way to Cat Ba Island.
11am Return to Halong city and have lunch on board/or in a restaurant.
12pm Back to Halong wharf.
1pm Transfer back to Hanoi by around 4:30pm.


INCLUDES:
All transportation and transfers
1 night deluxe room on the Junk (A/C room) Kayaking, ticket
English speaking local guide
Meals: 3 main meals, 1 breakfast, Welcome drink.


EXCLUDES:
Personal insurance
Personal expenditure, tips, drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers, etc.
Coach tour - Daily guaranteed departure
Maximum 16 people in each group. You can also book this package as a private tour
includes as above plus: first drink with evening meal, fresh fruit, tea & coffee, insurance





Deluxe twin room on boat

Relax Sunset on Bay

Kayaking on bay

Sung Sot CAVE (Surprising cave)

Restaurant on the boat






Ha Long Bay Vietnam (Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Quảng Ninh province, Vietna. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes.
Etymology
Local legend says that long ago when the Vietnamese were fighting Chinese invaders, the gods sent a family of dragons to help to defend the land. This family of dragons began spitting out jewels and jade. These jewels turned into the islands and islets dotting the bay, linking together to form a great wall against the invaders. The people kept their land safe and formed what later became the country of Vietnam. After that, dragons were interested in peaceful sightseeing of the Earth and decided to live here then. The place where Mother Dragon flew down was named Hạ Long (originally spelled ), the place where the dragon children attended upon their mother was called Bái Tử Long island (Bái: attend upon, Tử: children, Long: dragon), and the place where the dragon children wriggled their tails violently was called Bạch Long Vỹ island (Bạch: white- colour of the foam made when Children Dragon wriggle, Long: dragon, Vỹ: tail).
Geographical location
Halong bay is in Northeastern, Vietnam at from E106°56' to E107°37' and from N20°43' to N21°09'. The bay stretches from Yên Hưng district, pass Hạ Long city, Cẩm Phả town to Vân Đồn district, bodered on the south and southeast by Gulf of Tonkin, on the north by China and on the west and southwest by Cát Bà island. The bay has a 120 kilometre long coastline and is approximately 1,553 square kilometres in size with 1969 isles. The area admitted by UNESCO as world's natural heritage is 434 km² with 775 isles of which the core zone is limited by 3 points: Đầu Gỗ island on the west, Ba Hầm lake on the south and Cống Tây island on the east, the protected area is from Cái Dăm petrol store to Quang Hanh commune, Cẩm Phả town and the hinterland zone around.
Climate
The bay is a sea islands in tropical wet with 2 seasons: hot and moist summer, dry and cold winter. Average temperature is from 15°C- 25°C. Annual rainfall is between 2000mm and 2200mm. Halong bay has the typical diurnal tide system (tide amplitude ranges from 3.5-4m). The salinity is from 31 to 34.5MT in dry season and lower in rainy season.
History

Soi Nhụ culture (16000- 5000 BC)

Locating in Hạ Long and Bái Tử Long, there are symbolic archaeological site such as Mê Cung, Tiên Ông, Thiên Long. The remain relic major in mountain shellfishes (Cyclophorus) and spring shellfishes (Melania), some fresh water mollusc and some subdimentary labour tools. The main living procedure of Soi Nhụ's habitants are catching shells and fishes, collecting fruits and digging bulbs and roots. Their living environment is coastal area dislike other Vietnamese culture, for example: Hoà Bình, Bắc Sơn, etc. those days.

System of isles and caves

The bay consists of a dense cluster of 1,969 limestone monolithic islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves. Hang Đầu Gỗ (Wooden stakes Cave) is the largest grotto in the Halong area. French tourists visited in the late 19th century, and named the cave Grotte des Merveilles. Its three large chambers contain large numerous stalactites and stalamites (as well as 19th century French graffiti). There are two bigger islands, Tuan Chau and Cat Ba, that have permanent inhabitants. Both of them have tourist facilities, including hotels and beaches. There are a number of wonderful beaches on the smaller islands.
Some of the islands support floating villages of fishermen, who ply the shallow waters for 200 species of fish and 450 different kinds of mollusks. Many of the islands have acquired their names as a result of interpretation of their unusual shapes: such names include Voi Islet (elephant), Ga Choi Islet (fighting cock), and Mai Nha Islet (roof). 989 of the islands have been given names. Birds and animals including bantams, antelopes, monkeys, and iguanas also live on some of the islands.

Civilisation

A community of around 1600 people live on Halong bay in 4 fishing villages: Cửa Vạn, Ba Hang, Cống Tàu and Vông Viêng in Hùng Thắng commune, Hạ Long city. They live on floating houses and are sustained by capture fishing and marine aquaculture (cultivating marine biota).
Originally in Ha Long Bay there was only one fishing village. Now there are about ten.

Honourable name

In 1962, Vietnam Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism arranged Halong Bay as National Renowned Lanscape Vestige.
The bay was World's Natural Heritage listed by UNESCO at the 18th meeting of the Committee of the World Heritages of UNESCO (in Phuket, Thailand on December 17th, 1994) for its outstanding universal aesthetic value according to the criteria (vii) explained in the Operational Guilined for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention. On December 2nd, 2000 at the 24th meeting of Committee of the World Heritages in Cairns city, Queensland state, Australia, Halong bay was admitted as World's Natural Heritage extensively for its outstanding universal geological and geomorphological value according to the criteria (viii) of that Convention.
Halong bay was introduced to nominate by New Open World Foundation as World's 7 Natural Wonder having result on 08/08/2008.

Geology and Geomorphology

History of Tectonics

Scientist said that Halong bay has experienced at least 500 million years in various of ancient geographic condition such as orogeny, marine transgression andmarine regression. In Ordovician and Silurian period (500-410 million years ago), Halong bay is deep sea. In Carboniferous and Permian period (340-250 million years ago), Halong bay is at shallow sea level

Biodiversity

Vietnam government is submiting Halong bay in three times in Vietnam's Tentative list to UNESCO for its outstanding universal biodiversity value. The bay includes 2 ecosystem: tropical moist evergreen rainforest ecosystem and marine and coastal ecosystem with 7 endemic species.

Tropical moist evergreen rainforest ecosystem

It said that there are 477 magnoliales, 12 pteris, 20 salt marsh flora and 4 amphibia, 10 reptilia, 40 aves, 4 mammalia in this ecosystem located in islands in Halong bay.
Cat Ba Island
The Spectacular Home of the Cat Ba Langur
Cat Ba Island is situated in Ha Long Bay, 50 km to the east of Hai Phong City, in Northern Vietnam. It is the largest of 366 islands in the Cat Ba Archipelago, and has a surface area of about 140 square km. The Cat Ba Archipelago shares the distinctive rugged appearance and scenic beauty of the Ha Long Bay Area that was declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, in 1994. The area is one of the best examples in the world of a Karst landscape invaded by the sea. Some 1500-2000 large and small islands and cliffs rise steeply from the shallow marine waters. Many of these islands reach towering heights of 50 to 100m with sheer vertical cliffs on all sides. Spectacular rock relief and bizarre rock formations provide evidence of a long history of erosion and landscape evolution through the sculpturing power of water. The greatest part of the islands’ mountain range like most of the smaller offshore islands of the Archipelago, are covered by tropical moist limestone forest. Cat Ba Island also has coral terraces, sandy beaches, freshwater wetland areas, tidal flats, mangrove forests and willow swamp. Spectacular scenery and a high diversity of landscapes make Cat Ba a special place and it has become a main destination for national and international tourists.

The People
Cat Ba Island is currently inhabited by about 13500 people, living in 6 communes, of which Cat Ba Town is the largest. Archaeological remains suggest that people have inhabited the Cat Ba area for at least 6000 years. Local livelihoods in the villages are built on subsistence agriculture and fishing. Comparatively new sources of employment and income at the local level are shrimp and fish-farming, and tourism.

The National Park and Biodiversity Conservation
Cat Ba National Park was established in 1986. After a re-arrangement of the park boundaries in 2006, the park now comprises of 109 square km of land area and an additional 52 square km of inshore waters and mangrove covered tidal zones. Cat Ba National Park was Vietnam’s first national park to include both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Cat Ba Island, its national park and the surrounding area are nationally and internationally recognized for their importance to biodiversity conservation, exemplified through the recognition of the Cat Ba Archipelago as a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve, in 2004.This is not only because the area has a high number of different ecosystem and habitat types, but also because it possesses a great variety of plant and animal species, many of which, like the Cat Ba langur, are now rare and endangered.
About 1400 vascular plants, including 23 Endangered and Critically Endangered species (Red Data Book of Vietnam; IUCN Red List) have so far been recorded. Large and partly endangered mammals include the Cat Ba langur, the Southern Serow (Naemorhaedus sumatraensis), Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), black giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor), and civet cats (Viverricula indica, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The cave, land snail and butterfly fauna is rich including the most northerly cave-adapted crab species, plus four species of true cave snails. The region is considered a hotspot for land snail diversity and might also be conserving a considerable number of bat species including rare ones