Lan Ha Bay (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Located in the east of Cat BaIsland, the northern city of Hai Phong, Lan Ha Bay has become a tourist magnet thanksto its unique beauty.
Although not many people know about it, Lan Ha is one Vietnam’smost beautiful bays. Autumn is the best time to visit Lan Ha Bay because theweather at this time is extremely beautiful with pleasant sunshine, coolbreezes, and blue sky and ocean.
Linking Ha Long Bay of Quang Ninh province with Cat Baarchipelago, Lan Ha Bay is like a silk ribbon made from green mountains, bluesea and diverse fauna and flora. It is a tranquil, curved body of waterfeaturing about 400 islands.
Unlike Ha Long Bay, all 400 islets in Lan Ha are coveredwith vegetation with unique values, especially landscape values.
Lan Ha Bay spreads more than 7,000 hectares, including 5,400hectares under the management of Cat Ba National Park.
Aside from beautiful beaches, its attractiveness also liesin limestone mountain ranges that divide the sea into smaller bays, lagoons andcaves, many of which are unexplored.
There are hundreds of limestone mountains in the shape ofthings such as clogs or bats which also give the islets their names.
Stalactite caves and caverns can also be seen in Lan Ha.Some outstanding ones are Ham Rong Cave, Do Cung Cave and Ca Cave.
Lan Ha Bay boasts 139 small and quiet sandbanks, many ofwhich are located between two rocky mountains – a feature bringing peace andripples, making these sandbanks ideal bathing beaches.
Under the clean and blue water are colourful coral reefssuch as Van Boi and Van Ha reefs, good for diving.
Calm sea areas like those off Sen Island, Cu Island and Khi Islandare also places vacationers can swim and dive to see coral. Some rocky isletswith favourable natural conditions have also been used to develop leisuretourism activities.
To fully enjoy the beauties of limestone islets as well as thelandscapes of Lan Ha Bay, tourists should travel by kayak. By the means oftransport, they can explore new experiences that cannot be felt on cruiseships. Snaking through islets and small caves, kayaks can access the foot ofrocky mountains, giving tourists a view of the world under the blue water.
Visitors will be astonished at the nature in Lan Ha Bay andfeel at peace while being here.
Cat Dua Island, also known as Khi (Money) Island, is amust-visit destination in Lan Ha Bay. Many leisure tourism activities have beenoffered on this island, luring many foreign holidaymakers in recent years. Thewaters around Cat Dua harbour pearl farms are also interesting places to see.
A typical tourism product in Lan Ha Bay is small fishingvillages and those that farm local specialties such as Asian green mussel,clam, cobia, crab, abalone and grouper. Many of such aquaculture farms supplyfresh seafood for tourists when they set foot in the bay.
Two places of interest many travel companies introduce tovisitors are Van Gia fishing village, which is more than 100 years old, andViet Hai fishing village, which is almost entirely isolated from modern life.
Bay ecotourism recently is focused on investment. Only taking 5 minutes totravel from Beo wharf toward the north to reach Cat Dua Island with manytourism services are being exploited. This tourism form is attracting a lot offoreign tourists to arrive for resting.
Thanks to those advantages, tourism activities areflourishing in Lan Ha Bay, satisfying domestic and foreign visitors’ growing demandto discover the bay in the north of Vietnam.-VNA
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