Travel: Ha Long Bay

Ha Long Bay is blessed with natural beauty and majestic water, beautiful like a mysterious water painting and poetic. The land is recognized by UNESCO as a natural wonder of the world and has become one of the tourist destinations that attract millions of visitors each year. Let's find out more fully, more detailed this wonderful land!

Detailed information about Ha Long Bay Quang Ninh

1. Location and area

Halong Bay is located in the part of the Gulf of Tonkin, in the northeast it borders on Bai Tu Long Bay, in the southwest it is bordered by Cat Ba Archipelago, in the west and northwest by the mainland, in the southeast and south. northern Gulf.

Halong Bay has a total area of ​​1553 km2 including core zones, buffer zones including 1969 large and small islands of which 989 named islands and 980 unnamed islands.

1. Environment and climate

Halong Bay is a seaside island with a distinctly different climate of summer and winter. Summer temperatures from April to October with temperatures about 27-29 degrees Celsius, winters from November to March next year with cold air temperature about 16-18 degrees Celsius.

The annual average temperature fluctuates around 15-25 degrees C, so Ha Long is quite good so Ha Long tourism is a year-round tourist destination for domestic and international tourists.

1. Population

In Ha Long Bay, there are about 40 new islands inhabited by about 2,000 people mainly in coastal fishing villages such as Cua Van, Cau Dau, Ba Hang ... with the lives of mainly fishermen catching, cultivating and breeding aquatic and marine species.

And now the life of the people of Ha Long Bay with the development of business travel services has brought to life of people living more stable development.

1. Landscape

Heritage area in Ha Long Bay includes many caves, beaches are an island with diverse and rich landscape.

Ha Long Bay cave system:

Hang Sot Cave: Located on the island of Bo Hon in the heart of Ha Long Bay, Sung Sot Cave is a large cave, the most beautiful in the cave system of Ha Long Bay. Now, for the sake of sightseeing, the bay management has built a path with lights that contribute to the splendor of stalactites and stalagmites.

Thien Cung grotto is located in the middle of Canh Doc Island, 25m above sea level. In the cave there are many stalagmites as a beautiful temple with high walls, vertical with countless stalactites with many strange shapes, attractive.

Hang Dau Go: Go to the Thien Cung is also the visitors to Dau Go. This is a cave with magnificent stalactites associated with the history of Bach Dang River Tran Hung Dao own majestic beauty. Dau Go Dau is divided into 3 main compartments and each one has a wild, uncanny beauty.

Some other caves of Ha Long Bay: In addition to the main caves, Ha Long Bay also attracts visitors by dozens of other beautiful caves such as Bo Nau Cave, Trinh Nu Cave, Tien Long Cave, Ba Hang Cave Luoi, Tam Cung cave, Tien Ong cave, Ba Ham ...

Sea island in Ha Long Bay:

According to statistics, Ha Long Bay has a total of 1969 islands exist in two forms are limestone islands and shale islands concentrated in two main areas are southeast of Bai Tu Long Bay and southwest of Ha Long Bay.

The island system of Ha Long Bay is composed of many small islands with many different shapes, unique and impressive such as head people, Rong island, La Vong island, Hon Tam island, Canh Buom island, Ong Mau island, Lu Huong island , Hon Rom, Hon Dua, Hon Ong, Con Coc Islet, Ga Choi Island, Ngoc Vung Island, Ti Tung Island, Tuan Chau Island ...

Historic monuments, culture and customs of Ha Long Bay

About historical relics:

Ha Long Bay is a land associated with the heroic history of Vietnam from the time of building the country to keep up the current development.

The historical Bai Mon Mountain, in the Ha Long Bay area, is where the Emperor Lê Thánh Tông's poem Hán was carved on the 1468 rock in the East Sea. Bai Chay area is associated with the food war boat of the Mongolian army was Tran Tran Tran Tran Khanh led commanders burned, burned to burn the whole forest in the area.

Hundreds of islands, caves and stalactites in Ha Long Bay are named after the myths, legends, or folk imaginations of the rich community of residents here create a huge historical relics. and meaning.

About customs and culture:

At present, fishermen in the sea of Ha Long still preserve the ancient singing of the ancient coast such as singing, singing wedding, sea. Especially according to customs in Cua Van fishing village, the wedding is only held on the full moon day because this is the morning light, fishermen do not go fishing.

With the natural beauty of nature, Ha Long Quang Ninh tourism is becoming more and more popular and attracts domestic and international visitors with exciting and interesting exploring, It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.