Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 11, 2015

Halong Bay – Unique marvel of nature - Vietnam

Located 150km far from Hanoi, Halong Bay – Vietnam is a spectacular island waters of Quang Ninh, a top-leading marine tourism site in Vietnam. With the outstanding value of the universal landscape and geology, Ha Long Bay has twice been recognized by UNESCO as a world natural heritage.

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Halong Bay with nearly 2000 multifold “pearl” islands above sea level, covering an area of ​​over 1500 square kilometers, creating an extremely poetic and majestic natural wonder. The abundance of styles and the diversity in shapes of thousands of islands creating a forest of natural sculptures, a rare natural impression over the world with the fortified attraction and capacities satisfying the rich imagination of humans.

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Halong Attractions
Bai Chay is a man-made beach with beautiful wide and sandy beach by over 1km long, 100m wide, located along the shores of the bay, suitable for swimming and relaxation. Bai Chay resort is throughout the year windy with cool climate that attracts large numbers of visitors in the beach tourist season.

Bai Chay bridge in Ha Long

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Tuan Chau Island, 8km far from Halong city, is the most beautiful island of nearly 2,000 islands in Halong Bay with many of the modern international standard works such as: the restaurants were built in royal architects, villas, marine animal presentation parks, …T

uan Chau is a glamour place where visitors can swim and play the water sports: waterslide moto, parachute- pulled canoes, windsurfing, fishing, boating…

Ti Top Island is a small island in the bay about 14km by Ha Long city center. It is beautiful and poetic by one side steep and another one skew with white sandy beach in crescent shape. Coming to Ti Top, visitors can swim or climb up the stair on the top of the mountain or to halfway up the mountain to watch the islands of Ha Long Bay.

Sung Sot cave, the French call this cave Grotte des surprises (Cave of the shock), on Bo Hon island, is one of the most spectacular and largest grottoes of Ha Long bay. The 30-meter hight roof of the grotto are decorated ingeniously by small dents, steady and smooth as sponge, with many stalactites hanging from the high ceiling glittering as the lights from the dome of the great theatre which is very magnificent.

Virgin Grotto, also located on Bo Hon island, is 15km from Bai Chay. Found in the middle of the grotto is a giant stalactite block imaging a petrified girl with long hair, toward the far shore languishing waiting.

Wooden Stakes Cave, on Driftwood Island. The celling of the grotto is about 25m high with hundreds of stalactite blocks and stalagmites falling down, creating many strange shapes depending on each one’s imagination. Standing under the arch of the cave, visitors would be lost in an acient castle with monumental and majestic architecture.

Thien Cung cave is situated on a cliff on driftwood island with two flanks covered by overgrown plants. Thien Cung is like an “Fine Arts Museum” of nature with countless of massive stalactite paintings passionating human hearts.

Thien Cung cave in Ha Long bay
Thien Cung cave

Me Cung Cave, situated on Lom Bo Island, 2km from the Ti top beach. Not massive and majestic as Dau Go or Sung Sot cave, Me Cung is modest in size. It is defined in chambers which are small and narrow but incredibly sophisticated.

Cua Van fishing village is one of the most beautiful ancient fishing village in the world, a place visitors should not miss while in Ha Long Bay. It is made up of those tumbledown houses connected together on calm sea, at the foot of the majestic limestone mountain.

The relic group of Bai Tho mountain, Tran Quoc Nghien temple, Quang Ninh museum… are those monuments that many tourists visiting Ha Long Bay are interested in.

Halong’s Specialties
Fried squid ball are delicious famous specialty of Ha Long. It can be served with the sticky rice, rolled cake or used popular in daily meals. The fried squid ball has a fresh yellow and a moreish flavor wining a point for us to approach the recipe . That is the subtle of a traditional, common and perfect dish.

Quang Yen Sam (carcinoscorpius rotundicauda): Quang Yen is well- known for a kind of flavor high nutritional value seafood, Sam which can be processed into a variety of attractive different dishes such as Sam pudding, sam salad, fried sweet and sour sam’s legs, Sam sauteed peppers, fried eggs…Sam meat dishes are delicious seafood which visitors to Quang Ninh should not miss.

Ngan (Austriella corrugata) is a kind of krills living in mangrove estuaries, could be processed into such dishes as: grilled, steamed, cooked porridge, stir-fried with vegetables or noodles. For the male visitors, Ngan is a wonderful experience to taste with some wine. The dishes from Ngan common in high and street restaurants in Ha long, Quang Ninh.

Gat Gu cake is Halong extraordinary and special cake that is similar with steamed rolled rice pancake. It made from rice flour adding a bit cold rice then being well coated. The liquid becomes infused with the other ingredients in the recipe, and these flavors transfer to the cake.

Gat Gu cake - Halong's Specialties
Gat Gu cake

Tien Yen chicken is a kind of hill pastoral farming chickens. After boiling, it is tasty with typical yellow polished like be embedded in delicious cooking oils, linked but not tough. The dish really capture the nuances of the taste of chicken that help you identify and create the most natural rich and authentic flavours possible.

Nem Chao is confidently considered one of the pride of the people in Quang Yen – Ha Long. As a great cuisine, the food is a combination of three: sour, specifically spicy, sweet and really flavourful when being essentially dipped into chutney to add tastes for the recipe .

Hoanh Bo soaked rice wine – a unparalleled drink is local culinary delight of Ha Long made from a kind of glutinous rice that only found in Ha Long. Rice wine Hoang Bo has stimulative effect on digestion brings out benefits for health.

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