Ha Long Bay

Ha Long bay

1.Location
Halong Bay is a small bay located in Vietnam. Ha Long Bay is bounded to the northeast by Bai Tu Long Bay; in the southwest it borders the Cat Ba archipelago; to the west and northwest by the coastal line about 120 km from Quang Yen town, through Ha Long city, Cam Pha city to the end of Van Don island district; southeast and south to the Gulf of Tonkin. Covering an area of 1,553 km² including core and buffer zone, located at coordinates 106 ° 58'-107 ° 22 'East and 20 ° 45'-20 ° 50' North, Ha Long Bay consists of 1,969 large and small islands of which 989 named islands and 980 unnamed islands
2.environment and climate
Ha Long Bay is an island with a distinctly different climate: hot and humid summer with a temperature of about 27-29 ° C and cold winters with a temperature of 16-18 ° C, moving in the range of 15-25 ° C. The rainfall in Ha Long Bay is about 2,000mm-2,200mm. The tidal system in Ha Long Bay is characterized by a high tide of about 3.5-4m / day. Salinity in seawater in the Gulf ranges from 31 to 34.5MT in the dry season, but in the rainy season this level may be lower. The sea level in the Gulf is quite shallow, with a depth of only 6m to 10m and the islands do not retain surface water.
3.Islands and caves
The islands in Ha Long Bay come in two forms: limestone islands and shale islands, concentrated in two main areas: southeast of Bai Tu Long Bay and south west of Ha Long Bay. According to the statistics of Ha Long Bay Management Board, out of 1,969 islands of Ha Long Bay, there are 1,921 islands with many islands of about 200m high. This is the oldest image of geologic terrain dating from 250-280 million years ago, as a result of the elevated, downhill movement from the continent to the low seas. The weathering process almost completely creates a unique Halong Bay, with thousands of rocky islands, many different shapes appearing on the sea, in a small area of ​​the region. Bay.

The spectacular rocky landscape and many beautiful caves are the center of Ha Long Bay Natural Heritage, including most of Halong Bay (core zone), part of Bai Tu Long Bay and Lan Ha Bay belongs to Cat Ba islands (buffer zone).

The islands in Ha Long Bay have their own shapes, unlike any island in Vietnam's coast and no island-like island. There are places where the audience gathered together to look over each other, but there are also vertical stand horizontal alternating, forming a line of tens of kilometers as a wall. It is a cosmic world hidden in legendary stone formations. Island is the face of someone who is heading to the land (Head of People); The island is like a dragon flying over the water (Dragon Island); The island is like an old man sitting fishing (La Vong); The far away are two brown sails that are turning the waves to the sea (Canh Buom); back to the soup as a raspberry (raspberry); Then the two chickens are cuddling each other on the water wave (Drum Roof); Standing in the middle of the sea is a giant incense burner as a sacrifice for heaven and earth (Lu Huong island); Another island is like the monk standing in the middle of the bay with hands full of Buddha Recipes (Hon Than); The roundabout is about 40m high and looks like a chopsticks in front of the nature (the stick), but from the other direction, like the royal court, the hat and wings, so the fishermen also called Hon Ong

Beside the islands are named based on the shape, the islands named after the folk (mountain Bai Tho, Trinh Nu, Tuan Chau island), or based on the specialties are on the island or the sea Around the island (Ngoc Vung, Kien Vang, Monkey Island etc.)

The famous cave
Not only the changes of the blue-black rocks on the Gulf of Vietnam attract tourists, on the boat reddish-brown bat from Ha Long pier began the journey, the discovery again. When you visit the island, visit the cave contains many historical evidence. The caves in Ha Long, according to the French geological explorers, studied the Ha Long Bay early twentieth century, asserted that most of them are built in the Pleistocene from 2 million to 11,000 years ago, located in 3 groups of ancient underground cave, karst cave and marine frog jaws.

The potential of Ha Long Bay
4.Potential for tourism, research
With outstanding values ​​of landscape and geology and geomorphology, is the center of the region with many similar elements including Bai Tu Long Bay to the northeast, Cat Ba Islands to Cat Ba Bay and Lan Bay. In the southwest, Ha Long Bay convergence of favorable conditions to develop economic tourism with diversified types. To Ha Long Bay, visitors can participate in scientific research activities, sightseeing, swimming, boat, parachute diving, coral reef exploration, recreational fishing. Currently, visitors to Ha Long Bay mainly sightseeing, swimming and sailing. Types of cruise tourism in Ha Long Bay include day trips to the bay, afternoon tours of the sunset over the bay, night cruises to see the Gulf at night combined with squid fishing, Boating to explore the bay. In the coming years, the tourism industry will open more tourist spots and increase more types of tourism. It is expected that by 2010, Quang Ninh will be one of the largest tourist destinations in the country.

The process of urbanization of Ha Long city is going on strongly in all aspects is a solid premise to develop tourism. Ha Long City has about 300 hotels from 1 star to 5 stars with 4500 rooms and many basic mini hotels to meet the needs of tourists. The growth in visitor numbers in Ha Long Bay is considered to be the fastest in Vietnam in recent years. In 1996, Ha Long Bay welcomed 236 visitors, in 2003, Ha Long Bay welcomed 1,306,919 visitors. In 2005, the number of visitors to the Gulf is estimated at 1.5 to 1.8 million, and by 2010 Ha Long Bay is expected to receive 5-6 million visitors. However, did not achieve.

Being one of the two most beautiful bays in Vietnam beside Nha Trang Bay, Ha Long Bay is the place where regular international cruise ships are chosen as stopovers.

Potential of seaports and navigation
The bay is less vulnerable to the impact of wind and waves, Ha Long Bay also has a system of thick natural channels and estuaries are less sediment. This favorable condition allows the construction of a large seaport transport system next to Cai Lan deep water port (Ha Long) and Cua Ong (Cam Pha). In addition, Quang Ninh also has an auxiliary port system such as Mui Chua, Van Gia, Nam Cau Trang. By 2010, Cai Lan port will be built with seven berths, with a capacity of over 14 million tons, which will allow ships of over 50,000 tons.

Potential of seafood
The sea of ​​Quang Ninh in general and the sea of ​​Ha Long Bay in particular contain many ecosystems of biodiversity value and large marine reserves. The Gulf is suitable for aquaculture and fishing due to its favorable conditions: good climate, large tidal flats, clear water, coastal and offshore fisheries with high and diverse marine reserves. with fish, crab, shellfish, shrimp, abalone, pearl oysters


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