Halong Bay, Vietnam

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A world heritage site, Halong bay is one of the most beautiful places on earth. With its picturesque blend of land and sea, this one of the world's most precious beauty spots. Halong Bay is about 180km from Hanoi, and covers an area of over 1,500 km. Dotted with thousands of rocky islands, it really is a natural sculpture on a gigantic scale.

Numerous large and small islands of countless shapes rise from the sea along the 200km stretch of coast from the estuary of the Bach Dang river to Tra Co beach. Local fishermen have given many of them evocative names according to their shapes: Cone-shape Cookie, Banana, Small Fish, Tortoise, Nail, Wading Ox, Wallowing Buffalo, and many more. The islands are riddled with innumerable caves and grottoes offering spectacular stalactite displays. Bo Nau cave, Dau Go grotto and Trinh Nu grotto are especially worth seeing.

Sail-boats and motor-boats are available to take you on a panoramic journey of the bay with visits to some of the caves and grottoes. Halong Bay is an experience that will stay with you. forever

Sight-seeing spots

THE PELICAN CAVE

That is a beautiful grotto full of stalactites and stalagmites. Previously, the pelicans and gulls used to stay here. From inside, tourists can have a good view of the calm bay surrounded by islets and abrupt coral reefs.

THE DAU GO CAVE

This cave is home to thousands of stalactites and stalagmites. This cave has 3 chambers and can hold up to 3,000 people at a time. In the 13th century, it is said that the famous Tran Dynasty General Tran Hung Dao used the third chamber to hide the wooden stakes later planted into the Bach Dang river to wreck the ships of Kublai Khan's fleet.

THE TRINH NU CAVE

There are many stalactites and stalagmites of unusual shapes here, one is said to be that of the girl from for which the cave is named. The story goes that a local mandarin forcibly took the virgin daughter of a poor fishing family as one of his concubines. The chaste girl escaped his clutches but did not return home for fear that doing so would endanger her parents. She committed suicide here to spare her parents from the mandarin's wrath. The cave has been "Virgin Girl" Cave ever since.

Source : http://www.discovermekong.com

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