Titles of Ha Long bay

Ha Long city has a convenient location in terms of roads, waterways, and airways. It is easy to choose a means to get to this beautiful coastal city, please refer to some information below:

Ha Long bay has a terrain of islands mixed with lagoons, mangrove intertidal areas and steep limestone islands. Islands are mainly limestone islands (over 90%) with different heights (from 50 to 200 m).

“Ha Long” means "Descending Dragon". Prior to the 19th century, this name had not been recorded in any documents or archives. It was known as Giao Chau, Luc Thuy, An Bang, An Quang, Hai Dong, Hoa Phong, Nghieu Phong, etc.

Ha Long bay is located in the Northeast of Vietnam, in Quang Ninh province

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With outstanding values of landscape, geology-geomorphology, the richness and abundance of ecology, culture-history, Ha Long bayhas favorable conditions to develop tourism. Currently, there are many types of tourism:

Ha Long Bay scenery is considered exceptional landscape on earth. Mr. James Thorsell, Director of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said: "The tall of pillars of rock and rugged islands rising from Ha Long water surface are unique with perfect picturesque scenery endowed by nature, specially archeological heritage. It is worthy to be preserved and recorded in the World Heritage List as a Natural Heritage site” .

The geological history of Ha Long bay area spans for about 3 billion years and is scientifically recorded for 500 million years. Evidence of geological evolution and tectonic movement,including fault zones,geodesy, geysers, basins, and formations that marked dramatic changes in paleo-geographical conditions in the area. Halong Bay has experienced many periods of marine transgression-regression, thus it contains precious values to the Anthropoceneand marine geology.

Tourists and guides coming to Ha Long Bay, the world heritage site and natural wonder should know the following regulations:

When you visit Ha Long Bay, guides of Ha Long Bay Management Broad will provide you with specific and accurate information about outstanding values of Ha Long Bay, the world heritage site and natural wonder;

General provisions in the usage of tickets for visiting Ha Long bay