Tourism destinations in Halong City
Since time immemorial, Halong Bay was praised as the wonder of the earth amidst the sky by Nguyen Trai, a famous name in Vietnamese Culture. Speaking of Halong, one must above all talk of the beauty of its water and sky.
Seen from above, Halong Bay resembles a Chinese ink drawing dotted with thousands of lively rocky islands; sometimes clustered together, sometimes isolated, forming an artistic sketch..View details ...
Cultural and historical value of Halong Bay
The beauty of Halong Bay consists in its mountains, water, clouds, caves and grottoes. Many, however, do not realize that Halong was also the cradle of an ancient people who helped create the present Halong culture.
At the end of 1937, a Swedish archaeologist named Anderson, together with two French archaeologist sisters named Conani, journeyed for months through Halong sea. They climbed mountains, visited caves and explored the coastline, finding many stone artifacts: axes, grinding tables, sewing needles and jewellery. They called the culture that formed these remnants “Ngoc Vung”.View details ...
Discover Halong Bay by Kayak
The best way to feel all the imposingness of Halong nature and to uncover every extremely beautiful cliff and fall is rowing a kayak.
In fact, traveling by kayak appeared in Halong in the early years of 90s, 20th century. At first, Journeying by kayak was just for venturesome foreign tourists.
Up till now, there have been many domestic tourists taking part in this activity in Halong Bay. By being on a kayak, tourists will find out a very beautiful Halong completely different from what they can see on a cruiser..View details ...
Halong bay - a concentration of stone islands
In the bay of Halong Bay and Bai Tu long, there are nearly 2000 small islands. The highest is just over 200 m while the lowest about 5-6 m. They rise out of the sea surface, exposing rough vertical cliffs in strange and impressive shapes. Over the years, the local fisherman have named these mountain-islands after their shapes: Incense Burner, Fighting Cocks, human Head, Child-Caring mother, Tortoise, Teapot, Stone Dog, ect..View details ...
Halong bay - an area of miraculous grottos and caves
The dozens of grottos and caves that have been unearthed so far make Halong the largest concentration of grottos and caves in Vietnam, mostly located within Halong’s World Heritage area. Their scale, size and color are remarkably diverse and each contains evidence of the power of erosion by seawater, rainfall and moisture over hundreds of millions of years..View details ...
Halong bay - an ecological biodiversity
Within the sea areas of Halong Bay, coral grows everywhere ar a depth between 5m to 10m but mainly concentrated offshore in the East and North. There are about 170 coral species of 44 families of 12 genera. They are classified into two categories: branch-and fan-shaped. Coral forests in Halong are wonderful ecosystems, alga, Zooplankton, phytoplankton and at least 107 species of fish.View details ...
Halong Bay The Cultural
Halong Bay is a home of ancient Viet people.
Soi Nhu Culture: lasted from 18,000 to 7,000 year ago, concentrated in Halong Bay and Baitulong Bay areas. The typical archaeological remains of this culture can still be found at Me Cung, Tien Ong and Thien Long and include archaeological seashells and fresh shells, some fresh water molluscs and simple work tools.View details ...
Halong bay - the wonderful landscape
Whenever speaking of Halong, one should talk first about the beauty of its natural landscape. Mr. James Thorsell, an expert from the UNESCO Natural Heritage Organization (UCN), assessed: “Stone Mountains rising out id the water surface in Halong bay form an original natural landscape endowed with magnificent values, especially its archaeological heritage. It is worthy of preservation and inclusion in the List of World Heritages as a natural Heritage”View details ...
Halong Bay commercial center
TTO - Halong Commercial Center was built in 2003 in Bang Dang Ward, in the center of Halong, Quang Ninh Province on the location of the old Halong market.
The center has a modern scale with the area of more than 6.000 square meters, containing nearly 2,000 departments with various and plentiful products.View details ...
The conservation of the bio diversity of Halong bay
Besides special values that have been recognized by UNESCO as the World natural heritage, its bio diversity is one of the typical features of Halong bay.
Halong bay’s bio diversity includes three factors – species classes, ecosystems and gene categories.
The place that has many floras in the Red Book of Vietnam.View details ...
The natural beauty of Halong Bay
Since time immemorial, Halong Bay was praised as the wonder of the earth amidst the sky by Nguyen Trai, a famous name in Vietnamese Culture. Speaking of Halong, one must above all talk of the beauty of its water and sky.
Seen from above, Halong Bay resembles a Chinese ink drawing dotted with thousands of lively rocky islands; sometimes clustered together, sometimes isolated, forming an artistic sketch.View details ...
