Halong Bay overview
Ha Long Bay or still written as Halong Bay is a magnificent scenic spot, it is located in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. This site is very famous for its mountains, clean water, clouds, caves, and grottoes. Halong Bay is located the center of a large area including Bai Tu Long Bay to the northeast and Cat Ba island to the southwest. Halong Bay was recognized as World Heritage Site by the UNESCO since 1994 and it is listed in the New 7 Wonders since 2012.
Halong Bay is an UNESCO natural heritage site must see on your trip to Vietnam
A cruise trip on Ha Long Bay or also called the Bay of the Descending Dragon is for many represents the pinnacle of experience in Vietnam. Simply this is one of the most popular destinations in the northern Vietnam, UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay is included both of mystical and magnificent, an incredible feat of the nature that almost never fails to impress. In fact, UNESCO had picked out 830 World Heritage sites around the world, chosen for their cultural and historical importance as well as for their geological uniqueness. Halong Bay offers a little of all three, it is really impressive.
History and Tales of Halong Bay
If Hanoi’s old name is Thang Long (Ascending Dragon), Halong Bay literally means Descending Dragon. And also like many other Vietnamese towns’ names, Halong Bay has its origin from a legend. The story is: Once upon a time, Vietnam was invaded shortly after they started building the country. These boats crashed into the islands and broke into pieces. Vietnamese won the battle thanks to the tricky battlefield. After the victory, the dragons decided to stay on the bay and the pearls still remained. The location that Mother Dragon landed is then called Halong Bay, and then where Children descended is Bai Tu Long Bay.
There are a lot of the different beautiful islets and islands in Halong Bay
Weather in Halong Bay
The annual temperature of Ha Long bay is around 20-30 Celcius degree, it is very suitable for tourists to travel all year round. The best time to explore Halong Bay is around from the beginning of March to the middle of August because during this time tourists will have a chance to shoot the exotic photos with the blue sky and sea as smooth as a mill pond. It’s little cloudy and rainy in autumn and chilly in winter. Especially, the period between August and October is the typhoon season, but nowadays the weather is changed much so the weather is very nice during the year, just sometimes there are some small storms which are appeared very suddenly.
Things to do in Halong Bay
If you have time (date) and want to explore full sights as well as relax to feel real about the beauty of Halong Bay, then you should take a cruise trip around three day two nights or two days one night on boat cruise, it is very fun and worthwhile for you to pay it because this is the best and most pleasure time for you to relax and take the most beautiful photos from the cruise. Besides that, you also have a chance to try the seafood food and a lot of the traditional dishes of Vietnam that are cooked from the seafood by the best chefs on the cruise.
Row on a basket boat is a very fun activity must include on your trip in Halong Bay
Visitors to Ha Long shouldn’t miss Bai Chay beach or still called Scorched Beach and it is located close to the coast of Ha Long Bay, whose sand is dark. People often mistakenly think that this is due to the climate or lack of the wind in this area. However, the weather here is quite nice and the temperature is around 22 Celcius degree.
Especially, the limestone formations are both bizarre and awesome in Halong Bay, and you must see all or some of the most famous attractions in Halong included: Thien Cung Cave (Heavenly Palace Cave), this cave is around 4km from the wharf outside of Ha Long City, Dau Go (Wooden Stakes Cave) is far around 8km to the south of Bai Chay, Bo Nau (Pelican Cave), Trinh Nu (Virgin Cave) is around 15km to south of Bai Chay, the island range of Bo Hon, the system comprised Sung Sot (Surprise Grotto), Dong Tien Lake and Luon Grotto, etc.
Explore the hallow caves in Halong very impressive
Besides Halong Bay, there are many other beautiful destinations to be located nearby Halong Bay such as Mong Cai the border city with China but visas must have been sourced in your home country in advance, Cat Ba Island where is still as the paradise on land, Hai Phong City, and Tuan Chau Island….
