• Printer-friendly version
  • Add Slogan

Halong Bay

Halong Bay
VIET NAM
Latest Slogan

Once, dragons formed Halong Bay by spitting out jades and have been living here then because they love Halong Bay. You will, too. Vote for Halong Bay - Descending Dragon Bay.

(Mai Nguyen - Nov,2008)

Beautiful sceneries, fresh and unpolluted environment, friendly and warmhearted people. Right, it's is Ha Long Bay, love ya

(bichthuy_07 - Nov,2008)

be best, be good, be itself.still great !oh oh

(wjky_ui - Nov,2008)

Not only a beautiful scene but also a mini world where you can spent time enjoying life and relaxing. Welcome!

(B.Who - Nov,2008)

I'm proud of my country's wonder. Halong, that mean a dragon fly down and make bay.

(milotiger - Nov,2008)

2000 islands-2000 kid-dragons of the mother seaVote for Halong Bay to express your love to the mother sea.

(nobbie_kavinstorm - Nov,2008)

Located in the North East region of Vietnam, Halong Bay is a Gulf of Tonkin, including the waters of Ha Long City, Cam Pha Town and part of Van Don island district. Southwest border Cat Ba Island Bay, east of the sea, the remaining adjacent land with 120 km coastline, is restricted from 106o58 '- 107o22' East longitude and 20o45 '- 20o50' north latitude with total area of 1553 km2, including 1969 islands, of which 989 islands and 980 named islands not named. Islands of Ha Long Bay there are two types of limestone islands and the island of schist, concentrated in two main areas of the southeast (belonging to Bai Tu Long Bay) and the southwest (belonging to Ha Long Bay area) has old comments created by geological 250-280 million years. Focus areas dense rock islands are spectacular and beautiful caves known as the center of the natural heritage of Ha Long Bay, including Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay one. Regional Natural Heritage is the world recognized an area of 434 km2, including 775 islands, such as a triangle with three vertices of Starter Wood Island (west), Ba Ham Lake (south), the island of Cong Tay (the east) area next to area buffer and national monuments and landscapes by the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1962 ratings. Looking down from above, Ha Long Bay as a giant picture of extremely vivid. Take in the Ha Long Bay, one imagines one touch in a world tales are chemical rocks, the island is like a person standing towards the land (more than Starter person), the island is like a dragon is flying over the water (over Dragon), Islands, the Left is like a sitting his aging fishing (Mr. La Vong Hon), Hon sail, Hon pair Chicken, Hon Lu Huong ... All look very real, real amazing. Shape of the island magic stone he periodically active chemical changes in the angle of light during the day and the viewing angle. Potential in the heart of the island he is rock caves as the beautiful Thien Cung, top wood, the Sung Sot, Tam Cung the ... That really is the castle of creating the chốn earthly goods. From ancient, Ha Long Bay has been great poet Nguyen Trai ethnic dubbed the wonders of land between heaven up high. Ha Long Bay is also the place associated with the development of national history with famous sights such as Van Don - where the famous ancient trading port a (1149), Bai Tho Mountain is writing by multiple-level record King princess, celebrity, far more than a bit of Bach Dang river - which has seen two splendid famous naval battle of his father against foreign invaders invasion .. Not only that, Halong today is the researchers demonstrated that one of the cradles of human culture from Hau Ha Long new Stone Age archaeological places known as Dong Mang, chain Tho, Soi Nhu, Time Well ... Ha Long is also the focus where high biodiversity with ecosystems typical ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reef ecosystems, ecosystem farm supplies, ecosystems of tropical forests ... With thousands of species of plant and animal extremely abundant on the forest under the sea, fish, squid ... There are special rare species only here. With special value as a result, on December 17, 1994, the 18th session of the Council of the World Heritage of UNESCO held in Thailand and Ha Long Bay was officially recognized as a Natural Heritage , affirmed the value of the global world natural heritage Ha Long Bay.

(heocoix2000 - Nov,2008)
New7Wonders of Nature

Halong Bay is located in Quáng Ninh province, Vietnam. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. The bay has a 120 kilometre long coastline and is approximately 1,553 square kilometres in size with 1969 islets. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves, other support floating villages of fishermen, who ply the shallow waters for 200 species of fish and 450 different kinds of mollusks. 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.