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Unique Route: Hon Gai - Bai Tu Long Bay – Vung Vieng – Thien Canh Son - Hon Gai

Unique Route: Hon Gai - Bai Tu Long Bay – Vung Vieng – Thien Canh Son - Hon Gai
Bai Tu Long Bay
Occupying three-quarters of the Halong Bay area, Bai Tu Long Bay is one of the three triangular peaks of the World Natural Heritage.
Bai Tu Long Bay is different from the rest of the World Natural Heritage. In Halong Bay over four hundred boats bring thousands of tourists each day so hundreds of tourists converge on the same place at the same time. At Sung Sot Cave you are likely to encounter 6 or 7 other groups of tourists in the chamber making it difficult to hear your tour guide’s talk about the geological value of the cave and how it was formed. Contrastingly Bai Tu Long Bay will charm you with its wild beauty with stone mountains, caves, long sandy beach, corals, forests, mangrove forests and lovely fishing village – and few tourists.

It is rare to find a place on Halong Bay that is as packed full of aesthetic beauty, biodiversity, and culture as Bai Tu Long Bay – an outdoor museum where more than 340 millions years of history is stored and conserved with places such as: Da Xep Park, Ang Cong Dam, Thien Canh Son Cave, Quan Lan Island, and Vung Vieng fishing village…

JSC Indochina Junk is proud to be the first and only company to have luxury boats that take tourists to the Bai Tu Long Bay area with many packages to choose from – kayaking; discovering the geology, geomorphologic and biodiversity value of the bay; fishing trips; talking with people in fishing villages; coral diving; and cycling on islands.
Vung Vieng (Vong Vieng) Fishing Village
Vung Vieng is also known as Vong Vieng Village
Bai Tu Long and the Vung Vieng Fishing Village is off the beaten tourist track as it is not so near to the popular Cat Ba Island which has lodging, beaches and nearby caves where most of the large tour companies and boats operate.

There are about 50 families; the population is between 200 and 300 residents. This includes nearly 100 children. These families have lived in this village for generations. The language is Vietnamese. The village is a "floating village." There are no structures built on land. The village is very poor. Traditionally income for food and potable water (imported from the mainland) came solely from fishing. Now, there is some supplemental income from tourism also.

There are 4 fishing villages in the World Heritage site: Ba Hang, Cua Van, Vong Vieng and Cap La. Vong Vieng is the less touristy. After disembark the mother boat, you will be transfer by rowing boats, tender boats, or doing kayaking to enter Vong Vieng fishing village. After enter the village gate (see the picture), you have a chance to experience the villagers’ daily life as well as the traditional culture and customs of the fishermen, who live in the World Heritage Area of Halong Bay.

Their floating houses look spacious and clean. The well-off families even have tiled roof houses with radios, television sets, tables and chairs, etc. There is one community house here where villagers come to have meetings. Here is also the place tourists stopover to shop some traditional hand made items.

With the support of the tourists and travel companies like Indochina Junk, First Choice, Footprints, the village boasts a training establishment for their children. Over an area of 100m2 lies one classroom and one small room for teachers.

It is interesting to see the rambunctious children going to “school”. Their bustling calling and their flopping rowing liven up the atmosphere of the quite bay. Looking at the small boats driven by tiny oars going to school, and the radiant faces of the children, one feels confident in a bright future for the fishing village. Tourist can drop some notebooks, pens to the village children.

Thien Canh Son Cave
The pathway to Thien Canh Son Cave is set below the forest canopy and a stone cliff, so tourists have the feeling they are climbing towards heaven.

Inside the cave, is a strange beauty – an image of a lotus, a picture of baby elephant. The ceiling of the cave is covered with a layer of shiny ‘carpets’, numerous sparkling stalactites appear like “hanging lamps”. Stone statues, stone elephants, seals, flowers – all seem to create an imaginary world as if in a dream.

Located in the centre of the World Heritage area, Bai Tu Long Bay covers an area of 2000 sqm., Thien Canh Son Cave offers a wild and mysterious beauty. This is the reason why we choose to bring tourists here – to discover the geological value of the bay, and to enjoy a cosy dinner with family and friends in sparkling candlelight.

Cong Dam Area
The magnificent beauty of mountains and sea can make anyone fall in love when they come to Cong Dam.

This outdoor geological museum has been preserved for 340 million years, the most outstanding area is a regional park with mountains formed from rocks.

Here a lot of coral reefs are concentrated, with underground lakes inside the limestone mountain and underwater caves. It is also an area of many large beaches with white, smooth sand and clear, blue waters, such as Tra Gioi, Cay Bang and Cat Oan beaches.

Cong Dam is an old, small village, which has retained largely in tact its traditional fishing culture with a population of about 120 people. Talk with local people, hear them tell tales of their memorable lives or sit in bamboo boats paddled by local woman who will take you to explore the magnificent mountains and beautiful small houses.

Far from the mainland, the area is isolated from normal tourist routes so the landscape here still retains many primitive features and a very fresh environment. Tourists come here to take park in interesting activities such as kayaking and fishing with fisherman, as well as participating in planting mangroves to protect the environment.

Hon Gai Port
Indochina Junks exclusive and private pier is situated on Hon Gai Town. Driving over the Bai Chay bridge, we will find the Hon Gai tourist wharf.

Hon Gai benefits from calming sea breezes and pleasantly warm water temperatures and is very popular with locals and tourists alike. During the warmer summer and fall months the temperature in Halong Bay averages around 70 - 80 degrees F and the long expanse of sandy beach is filled with swimmers and sunbathers.
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