Halong Bay Vietnam

Halong attracts around 90% of visitors coming to Vietam It's a Bay that 1,500 square km wide belonging to the Tonkin Gulf of the South China Sea.

Though it belongs to the ocean, its wave is calm and unusually emerald.
And it has nearly 2,000 islands and islets, all are limestone and dolomite, with numerous grottoes, stretches on that 1,500 square km. Another specific feature of Halong Bay is the abundance of lakes inside the limestone islands, for example, Dau Be island has six enclosed lakes. All these island lakes occupy drowned dolines within fengcong karst.

The tourist who have visited Guilin (China) and Phuket (Thailand) often make a comparison for their similar shape and geographical structure, just to note afterward that Halong is much huger and more diversified.

So after a very short time to consider, UNESCO had acknowledged it as the World Heritage in December 1994. This is the 2nd of the four listed World Heritages of Vietnam.

Halong Bay can be arranged with a day trip from/to Hanoi or a two-day package with overnight on board.