Very disappointed to arrive to Halong Bay to see all the Chinesse Junks painted white! The beauty of these traditional ships have been destroy by white paint! White boats impossible to see in the fog so they are safety hazard for the local fishermen who have no radar on their small boats.
Halong Bay, Halong Bay
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Ha Long Bay is located in the northeast corner of Viet Nam, 165 km from Ha Noi. In the Province of Quang Ninh. Ha Long Bay covers an area of 1,553 km2...
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Ha Long Bay is located in the northeast corner of Viet Nam, 165 km from Ha Noi. In the Province of Quang Ninh. Ha Long Bay covers an area of 1,553 km2 with 1,969 islands, of which 90% are limestone islands. To the west and north west, Ha Long Bay stretches from Yen Hung district in Ha Long city to Cam Pha town in Van Don district; to the south-east and in the south, Ha Long Bay borders the western shore of Tonkin Gulf; to the southwest the Bay borders Cat Ba island (Hai Phong province).In 1962, Ha Long Bay was recognized as a vestige and beauty spot of national significances by Ministry of Culture and Information of Viet Nam and was also recognized as a world national heritage site twice by UNESCO organization. The first time, in 1994 for the exceptional and universal value of the landscape and the second time in 2000 for the special value of geology and geomorphology.Ha Long Bay’s center area was regognized as a world heritage area by UNESCO and covers an area of 434 sq. Km, including 775 islands, of which 411 are named. It is bound by Dau Go island( in the west), Dau Be island (in the south) and Cong Tay island(in the east).A buffer zone lies around the World Heritage Area, the width is about 5 - 7 km from the protection line to the sea , on moving scale of 1-2 km.
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Halong Bay is a must see if you are visiting Hanoi! The four hour journey is well worth it, as the place is spectacular. Weaving through the limestone karst on the junk boat was an amazing experience. The junk is usually the only way to see this place, although there are bungalows and other resorts on some of the larger...
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Luang Prabang, Laos
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We had the dilemma of not knowing which charter cruise company to use, as well as the quantity of time one should spend perusing in awe the magnificence of nature!
For us, we chose to do Halong bay overnight on the boat, which was an amazing experience but we were grateful that we hadn't chosen to do it longer.
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Spent 2 nights, 3 days which is the best option. Tour operators are very good but they cannot do anything about the amount of boats given licenses and the fact that they are only allowed to go to a very small area so the water is DISGUSTINGLY dirty wherever you go. We stopped for an hour or so to go...
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well worth the trip, explore over a few days on a junk
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It's a magnificent site. We chartered a boat to go around for a few hours, we can only tour a small part of it. But definitely it's worth the ride, I was amazed by the work of nature.
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Really scenic place and i would give it 5 stars had it not been for the fact that the water was dirty. It is still worth a visit! Definitely do a tour on one of the junks but negotiate for the prices!
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Sydney
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The procession of boats out into the bay is actually a bit humurous, all lined up Indian File style. When you get there, no ship captain seems to have any manners about allowing everyone to see the feature rock formation; they just hog the space. The line up to get to see the caves becomes a bum fight, with the...
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Dont expect the bay to be postcard clear.. I have seen in clear of haze on only 5 out of almost 100 trips around this amazing place. The haze or smog drifts down from the coal fired power plants and the numerous brick kilns that are sited further up the Red River Valley. Still it is an amazing place and...
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One of the most amazing places I've ever been to in my life...
I went for 3 days and two nights
The place is out of this world
TiTop island
Monkey island (where a couple of ladies sell pickled snakes in jars from the beach)
Sung to cave
Floating villages
Islands all over the place (1969 in all!)
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