Halong Bay, Vietnam(Part I)

New7Wonders of Nature campaign was held from year 2007 to 2011, and Halong Bay is one of the 7 winners, others are Jeju Island(visited in year 2012), Iguazu Waterfall, Amazon Rainforest and River, Puerto Princessa Underground River, Komodo Island and Table Mountain.
Fyi, I will share the beauty of Halong Bay in 2 separate blogposts noh….
WHY? Hmm, just simply don’t want share it with you all in one go. blek~

So, lets sail through this wonderful place with Go!Mitty pictures…….(ai ai Captain!)

Halong Bay which literally means “descending dragon bay" has an area of around 1,553 km².Even though I never been to Guilin, but I know both of this tourist spots share the common beauty which are their limestone karsts. Ok, less talk, more pictures pls~~

The weather was slightly overcast, that’s why the pictures taken with this dummy Fujika camera was gloomy. Anyway, it still show the beauty of Halong Bay, right? 好像薄纱后的美女~ I keep on wondering how the mother of nature makes all these limestone karsts and isles appear in the middle of sea? Hmmm, it suits the title, wonder of nature.

Cruises in Halong Bay

There is 2 types of cruises in Halong Bay, which are overnight cruise and daytrip cruise. Then overnight cruise is divided into 2 days 1 night trip and 3 days 2 nights trip. The round trip to Halong City takes about 7 hours, so I HIGHLY recommend you to overnight on boat even though nothing much to do at night.(just sleep noh~). The cruise range from budget to luxury kind, which generally the smaller size cruise has the cheaper rate, and the details you can find it online. If you are lazy and is ok with budget cruise, just book Halong Christina Cruise.

As there are 300+ cruises operating, so is fun to see the cruises with different designs passed by us.

From top
First: Fantasea Deluxe Cruise
Second: Indochina Sails
Third:Halong Dragon Cruise

From top
First: Paradise Luxury
Second: Halong Emotion CruiseChio i-don’t-know-its-name cruise

Local "cruise"So, this is how the local earn for their living.

Surprising Cave(Hang Sung Sot)

The cave is found by French in 1901 and it is the tourist spot that 99.1% confirm-in-the-itinerary because it is the most magnificent, amazing and surprising cave in this bay. It was so magnificent, amazing and surprising that Go!Mitty sprained her crunchy ankle here. How embarassing!!! I sat on the staircase in pain after the fall, with several cute handsome boys asking “Are you okay~?”

Stop the silly stories and explore this cave.

Fyi, we need to do little hiking to get into the cave.

                                   The first chamber once we stepped into the cave is pretty small.

But this is not the prettiest part.

                                                         I love the wave like ceiling. Nice!

This is the surprising part.Colored and proper lighting of the caves made the
stalagmites and stalactites more attractive.Tortoise like rock where the head is biting bank notes.
Tour guide told us that, touching the tortoise head can bring good luck.
No wonder, the head so smooth.
Don’t need use sunsilk
Ain’t it looks like a waterfall.

You will be welcome by this wonderful view once you come out from the cave:Berry berry nice~~~Spotted 2 pairs of rocky legs

So our Surprising Cave tour comes to an end.

Kayak

This is another activity which is confirm-in-the-itinerary. Our kayak fee is included in the money we paid for Christina cruise. Do take note whether kayak fee is included in your Halong Bay tour payment.  

We kayak for around 30minutes at the floating village.

So, I end my first part of Halong Bay post here.
Next: Titop Island!(MUST GO!)


Roll roll roll your boat,
Gently down the stream,
Merily merily merily merily,
Life is but a dream