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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
下龍),
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 rainfal
l
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
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The Spectacular Home of the Cat Ba Langur
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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
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