Shopping in Vietnam

Posted by admin in Vietnam Travel Reviews on May 12th, 2013 | 0 comments

Shopping in Vietnam is a fun and interesting experience, and guarantees good bargains to those who know what to look for. It is true to say that you can find nearly anything in Vietnam. Markets vary from high class shopping malls, supermarkets to bustling open market, galleries, boutiques and street stalls. DON’T miss the markets: among the most atmospheric in Southeast Asia and still the hub of commercial activity everywhere in Vietnam. Notable markets in clued floating ones in the Mekong Delta, Cho Lon market in the district of Hochiminh City that bears the same name, the large fruit and flower...

Ha Long Bay Is Officially Recognized as a New World’s Wonder

Posted by admin in Halong News on May 11th, 2013 | 0 comments

In the afternoon of March 28, Mr Nguyen Van Tinh, director of the International Cooperation (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) said the New7Wonders organization has officially recognized Ha Long Bay as a new world’s wonder Ha Long Bay is officially recognized as a new global wonder Mr Tinh said, he worked with the general director of the New7Wonders organization this morning in Ha Noi and was informed that Ha Long Bay has officially become a new global wonder. The Chairman of this organization will arrive in Ha Noi to award the symbolic form to recognize Ha Long Bay as a wonder this weekend....

Halong Bay: Dragons, Junks and Pearls

Posted by admin in Halong Bay on Apr 27th, 2013 | 0 comments

Any place this hauntingly beautiful warrants a good legend. Here’s how legend explains Halong Bay: A dragon descended from the sky and spat pearls into the water to protect Vietnam from foreign ships. The pearls transformed into islands; the ships turned away. Dragon wins. “Pearl” is right, when it comes to these island rarities. Sixteen hundred of them dot Halong Bay, Vietnam, and most are uninhabited and untouched. They’re made of limestone, shaped by the sea into lovely pillars — some standing 160 to 330 feet tall with vertical cliff walls and caves systems within. Some of the pillars even...

Halong Bay and Monkey Island

Posted by admin in Halong Bay on Apr 23rd, 2013 | 0 comments

Booked a 3 day 2 night all inclusive trip through my Hotel for $50 US. Was a ball ended up with a good crew and that made all the difference, our guide was a good bloke as well. Did not start well though, our bus to Halong city was “broken” so we ended up cramming into a couple of cabs. But the boat we ended up on made up for it, was pretty nice and the food was good. The scenery on the bay was amazing lots of Karst stacks rising up out of the ocean and we wound our way through them on the boat. Visted a cave and a small island with a beach before we parked up for the night. Had a good sleep on the...

Halong Bay – Paradise in the world

Posted by admin in Halong Bay on Apr 18th, 2013 | 0 comments

Halong Bay is such a beautiful place, I’ve never seen anything like it before! There’s over 2000 small islands there but they say they only have 1969 because that’s the year that Ho Chi Minh died. The tour guide on the boat told us a few of the names – fighting cock, Kissing couple and big fish (the islands look like these things). We visited the Song Sut caves which was cool (check out the pictures) and did some “karaking” (kayaking- the tour guide’s english was hard to understand!). We kayaked for about an hour and explored some of the caves and floating villages around the bay (jas did...

Halong Information

Posted by admin in Halong Bay on Apr 5th, 2013 | 1 comment

“Ha Long” means “Bay of Descending Dragons”, though prior to the 19th century this name was not recorded in any document or archive. When mentioning the present-day Quang Ninh Sea or Ha Long Bay, old historical books often referred to them by the names of An Bang, Luc Thuy or Van Don. Not until the late 19th century did the name of Ha Long Bay appear on a French Marine Map. The Hai Phong News, a French newspaper of the time, had an article, Dragon appears on Ha Long Bay, reporting the following story: In 1898 a sub-lieutenant named Lagredin, captaining the Avalanse reported...