4K | HA LONG BAY, Vietnam | Spectacular Garden of Islands | TRAVEL GUIDE | 2023

Описание: Welcome to Halong Bay and A&A Travelling. Halong Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a very popular tourist destination in the northeast part of Vietnam. Halong Bay means "the Bay where the Dragon descends into"

Visiting Halong Bay is like stepping in a beautiful painting, where the sky harmonizes with fresh green water, embellished by giant stone mountains. With so much to offer for travelers, Halong
promises you an overwhelmed feeling right at the moment you arrive at the place.

The whole of Halong Bay or sometimes referred to as the Gulf of Tonkinhas an area of around 1,500 km2, which contains approximately 1,969 islands and islets made from karst limestone towering like skyscrapers throughout the bay, formed through millions of years.

TOP HALONG BAY TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Sung Sot Cave
legend tells that after defeating the An aggressors, Thanh Giong ( the Saint Giong)
helped villagers chase devils and demonds away from the village and flew to heaven. He left his stone horse and swore to keep protecting his people. Sung Sot Cave was where the villagers kept all the vestige of arms and Saint Giong`s foot prints, which became small lakes with huges stones surrounded. The name "Sung Sot" means "amazed feeling" and it was first found by French travelers and called Grotte Des Surprises(the cave of surprises) in a travell book established in 1938. Being one of the widest and most special caves, Sung Sot Cave is located in the center of the bay, inside Bo Hon Island. Despite having a small gate, the cave amazed visitors with its giant inner space, which probably explains the surprising name.

-Ti Top Island
In the early years, the island was less know and it was called the "Graveyard" island. The name was in memorial of the death of a French cargo ship crew, who faced disaster nearby and buried on the island. It was kept until 1962 when Ho Chi Minh visited the island with a soviet astronaut named Gherman S. Ti Tov. He asked the locals to name this island after Gherman`s, and from then on, Ti Top has become a symbol of friendship between Vietnam and the Soviet Union. Unlike other 2,000 tourist spots in Halong, Ti Top not only have a beautiful nature view but also owns a fabulous sandy beach called Ti Top Beach or Vang Trang Beach(which means the moon beach, because the sandy beach looks like the moon hanging onto the island mountain. If you only have seen one picture of Halong Bay, it was likely taken from the crest of the Ti Top Island.

-Dau Go Cave
History recorded an event when Dau Go Cave was the place where spear-shapes woodpiles were hidden by Vietnam soldiers to build a battle field and destroy Mongol`s ships during the war against their invasion in the 13th century. Dau Go Cave has a huge 5,000m2 space inside. From outside, the cave`s gate is filled with emerald hue with a shape of a jelly-fish. Surprised by the beauty of Dau Go Cave Khai Dinh Kingonce wrote a poem praising it and engraved it on the left of the cave.

Halong Bay area is less populated compared to other cities in Vietnam, due to the fact that the governement has moved all floating villages residents to the mainland for better living standards, leaving the whole bay for tourism. Halong residents are friendly and hospitable since their main income is driven by tourism, besides fishing.

The best time to visit Halong Bay
Located in the north of Vietnam with a tropical mosoon climate, March - May and September - November are the best months to visit the bay. We were there in Jully and the weather was still
quite good...

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