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About Ha Long Bay
Ha Long Bay ("descending dragon bay") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to Ha Long City and part of Van Don district. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. Ha Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bái Tử Long bay to the northeast, and Cát Bà islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters.
Ha Long Bay has an area of around 1,553 km2, including 1,960–2,000 islets, most of which are limestone. The core of the bay has an area of 334 km2 with a high density of 775 islets. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. The evolution of the karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the impact of the tropical wet climate. The geo-diversity of the environment in the area has created biodiversity, including a tropical evergreen biosystem, oceanic and sea shore biosystem. Ha Long Bay is home to 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species.
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Nguyễn Hải Đăng
Kamov Ka-26
Reg: HA-MMS
C/No: 7303403
Operator: Fly-Coop Kft
Location: LHKV - Kaposvar Kaposujlak
Date: 30-Mar-2007
We took a day-long tour around Cat Ba Island/Ha Long Bay. This place is ridiculously photogenic. Let me assure my friends, yes, this is still Earth, and yes, it is real. Somehow.
Along the way the guides took us to one of the floating home/floating fish farms. They live in little shacks on the water and keep fish in nets lowered in the water. The guides said there's over 2000 people living this way in the area. Other than being on the water, it looks like any other low-wage village around here, complete with dogs corner stores, etc.
Oh, and it turns out this is the time of year to come! Weather was great and the place was not busy. We had the entire boat to ourselves!
A UNESCO World Heritage site a few hours drive from Hanoi, Ha Long Bay is named for the Dragons that legend has it came to protect Vietnam from invaders. 1969 (or thereabouts) islands/monoliths are spread across the bay.
No visit to Vietnam is complete without witnessing the natural spectacle of Ha Long Bay, with its countless islands rising dramatically from the sea. a boat trip through these towering rocky sentinels is an unforgettable experience!
Sadly we weren't blessed with the best of weather, it staying fairly dull and overcast for most of our trip, but the sight of the awe-inspiring natural rock formations surrounding us were more than enough compensation for the subdued light.
Light trail from HA-LWH WizzAir Airbus A320-232 taking off from runway 02 at Doncaster Sheffield Airport for Katowice.
Last night I had drinks and dinner with a vendor of ours. A pretty picture of our various rolls at Sushi Samba, NYC [20060426]
We took a day-long tour around Cat Ba Island/Ha Long Bay. This place is ridiculously photogenic. Let me assure my friends, yes, this is still Earth, and yes, it is real. Somehow.
Along the way the guides took us to one of the floating home/floating fish farms. They live in little shacks on the water and keep fish in nets lowered in the water. The guides said there's over 2000 people living this way in the area. Other than being on the water, it looks like any other low-wage village around here, complete with dogs corner stores, etc.
Oh, and it turns out this is the time of year to come! Weather was great and the place was not busy. We had the entire boat to ourselves!