Located in the northwest of Vietnam,
Halong Bay
is sure to be the most attractive site for international visitors to explore
when traveling to Vietnam.
The Bay itself is quite large at 1,553 square
kilometers with above 2000 small islets. The bay is really one of the best of
incredible Vietnam.
Halong in Vietnamese means
Descending Dragon. The legend has that from the very beginning of the
foundation of Vietnam,
the country had to experienced a great deal of invasions from Chinese invaders.
The King of Sky then dispatched a Mother Dragon along with numerous other Small
Dragons descending from the heaven to the country to help people fight against
the invaders. Boats of the invaders reached the bay when the Dragons were
descending to the Earth. Immediately, the Dragons exhaled hot fires to destroy
the boats of the invaders. Not only were the fires exhaled, the Mother Dragons
alongside with her Children exhaled a lot of huge pearls rising above the sea
to obstruct the invaders’ boats. After expelling the invaders, the Dragons did
not come back the heaven but stayed there in the Bay helping the villagers
nearby cultivation and business. The pearls that the Dragons breathed out were
the islets on the Halong
Bay today.
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| Panorama of Halong Bay |
Most of the islets on the Halong Bay
are limestone which has been created for millions and millions of years under
different contexts of environment and condition. Nowadays, visitors will be
certainly stunned by the magnificent beauties of this type of limestone inside
the islets’ caves of Halong
Bay. Limestone with
different colors and shapes for like colorful running water falls inside the
caves. The islets themselves are very various in shapes that will take your
imagination vividly. For example, visitors can see an islet resembling to a
cock or many others looking like dragons. Besides contemplating the
magnificence of islets and caves with beautiful limestone, visitors will
additional have a chance to explore the rich and diverse fauna and flora system
on the islets of the bay with hundreds of beautiful and scarce animals and
trees. Visitors will be able to hire boats to explore the Bay.
Other information about the Bay: Halong Bay
was proudly awarded as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 for its magnificent aesthetic values. Especially, in 2012 the Bay was named as
one of the seven new wonders of the world that has helped to boost the tourism
industry of the Bay. The bay itself belongs to a club of the most beautiful
bays of the world.
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