TRAVELLING HALONG BAY

1. Halong Tourism Overview
Halong Bay is a popular tourist destination of Vietnam, located on the western bank of the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea area of ​​North Vietnam. With thousands of spectacular islands, the wonders of nature, Halong Bay was repeatedly recognized as a UNESCO natural heritage of the world. Halong Tourism advantageous stunning scenery, attractive to tourists both domestic and international.

2. Move: Vehicles move when traveling Halong
Motorcycle / Car
Roadmap Hanoi - Bac Ninh - Halong: 155 km. This is the route from Hanoi to Halong shortest travel, go by car all around from about 3 hours, the journey is as follows:- Hanoi along route 5 - fork Sai Dong: 10 km.- Sai Dong along 1 - Bac Ninh: 23 km.- From Bac Ninh along 18 - Pha Lai Chi Linh - Dong Trieu - Drink Recipes - Halong: 122 km.Roadmap Hanoi - Bac Ninh - Halong: 160 km.- Noi Bai Airport (Hanoi) along the Noi Bai - Bac Ninh (32km) to Bac Ninh.- Connect to Highway 18a through Pha Lai, Red Star, North East, Drink Recipes to Ha Long.
Coach
Visitors can go to the major car manufacturers are concentrated in Luong Yen bus station or My Dinh bus station, the first flight departing at 6:00 am and the last bus at 17:00 pm (the journey takes between 3- 4 hours). Buses apart from 5 to 15 minutes to the bus station in Halong Bai Chay, Quang Ngai province. Ticket prices range from 100 thousand / guest seats to 200 thousand / guest bed.
Trains from Hanoi - Ha Long
Guests can take the tourist train departs from the station HALONG EXPRESS Gia Lam. Boats depart at 7:05 minutes in the morning, take about 5 hours to Halong. Fares $ 5 / afternoon / guests (for guests Vietnam) and USD 15 / way / guests (for foreigners).
Facility tours in Halong
Taxi travel within cities have companies like:

    The foundation 886 Taxi: 033 886 886.
    Halong: 033 62 62 62.
    Hon Gai: 033 84 84 84
    Mai Linh: 033 628 628
Halong Bay boat tour:Guests will buy separate tickets and chartering Attractions own, as is the train should transplant will cost between 100- 150 thousand / person. If traveling with a group or family should hire a private boat, 1 million 500 price range Ngan 1 million 700 thousand / 4 hour trip - 6 hours (the tourist season from May to August the price may be higher).There are 2 types of ticket to visit 4 hours and 6 hours. 6 hour tour tickets are more and a bit more expensive.

Dock of Halong Bay

3. Visit: monuments, beaches, tourist attractions Halong

Halong bay panorama

Bai Chay: The resort is located along Bai Chay Halong Bay, suitable for rest and swimming. The resort offers year-round windy beach, average temperature over 20 ° C. year
Co To Island: Co To Island admire the stunning coral reefs, Visitors can take a boat to the island and the beach here. Co To Island retains wild character rarely seen between the bustling atmosphere of Ha Long tourism.
Tuan Chau Island: the most beautiful islands of the 1,969 islands in Ha Long Bay, which is also the only island inhabited. It has the largest artificial coast of Vietnam. Tra sloping coastline with white sandy layer is an ideal place to have fun and participate in fun water games.
Luon Cave: Travel Halong boasts huge cave system, each cave has its own beauty and the stories associated with it. One of the typical cave Luon cave is located on Bo Hon Island, 14km from Bai Chay. Here you can see the buds stalactites that formed over millions of years with many shapes and sizes. Ahead Turtle island cave is right by Sun Gate.
Sung Sot Cave: located in the central area of ​​the World Heritage Site of Ha Long Bay, on Bo Hon Island. Inside the Sung Sot Cave stalactites are shaped fossils are abundant. Sung Sot cave is located in the focus region famous sights of Ha Long tourism (Ti Top beach - Bo Nau cave - Engine Maze - Luon - Sung Sot Cave) and the French set to hang name "Grotte des surprises" .

Sung Sot cave

Yen Tu relic: Halong Tourism not only sea. If you prefer to go the temple ceremony, the guests visit Yen Tu relic. This is a system of pagodas, shrines, towers and ancient trees blended with the natural landscape, scattered from red to Yen Tu mountain slope height gradually.
Cua Van fishing village: One of the destinations of tourist bold Vietnam Halong. At Cua Van fishing village, visitors not only be immersed in a quiet space, tranquility, but also learn the cultural life of fishermen, is learning to how to paddle, nets, fish ... Drop the shrimp

Cua Van fishing village

Historic sites in Halong: vestige Bai Tho mountain, Tran Quoc Nghien Temple, Quang Ninh Museum ... are relics are many tourists visiting Ha Long Bay.
4. Eat: Food, snacks, specialty tourist Halong
Halong travel and tourism in particular, Quang Ninh in general not only the vast sea air but also has many culinary specialties unique, salty taste of the sea. Here are some specialties that tourists can not miss when traveling here.
1. white sticky rice rolls of cuttlefish
New white sticky made from pineapple, served with yellow  cumbersome rolls of cuttlefish, sprinkle with pepper fish sauce delicious. Price: Per capacity sticky rice rolls or bread rolls ink cartridges at affordable goods priced from 15,000 to 20,000. Grilled squid may also be purchased by weight for about 250,000 VND / kg.
2. Bread rolls of cuttlefish

Bread rolls of cuttlefish

Meat rolls with mushrooms, black mushrooms, and onion-scented procession, accompanied by specialty rolls of cuttlefish  Halong create unforgettable taste. Location Enjoy: At Halong city with streets specializing in next spring rolls of cuttlefish Bach theaters have become familiar, many people called the city "Grilled squid rolls".
3. Ngan: 

Ngan is a bivalve mollusks such as clams

Ngan is a bivalve mollusks such as clams, can be processed in various ways: grilled, steamed, cooked porridge, fried with noodles or vegetables. Bored can also be used to make wine. Wine bored very own scented sea. Location Enjoy: These restaurants, cafes in Halong are bored dishes. Want to buy tired or bored wine, visitors can come and Cai Ram Road, Garden Training will be a lot.
4. Sa Sung
Sa Sung also known as deep sand, a seafood perhaps only in Halong. Devotees with sautéed fresh garlic and create delicious dishes. Sung Sá dry, dark colored lean, grilled or roasted, eating crunchy, fleshy to alcohol, especially as seasoning for noodle broth. Devotees quite rare, if there is a very high price, a cash nearly 4 million kg.
5.Sea Sam: 
One other specialty of sea fascinating Halong, which is sam - an arthropod crustaceans. From sea sam people could be so much processing into delicious dishes and various strange as: Advanced soup sam, sam salad, sweet and sour stir-fried crab legs, crab sauteed peppers discharge, sam egg fried egg fried guise leaves sam , steamed crab, breaded fried sam, sam cartilage grilled, fried vermicelli sam ... Location Enjoy: Want to enjoy delicious sam, guests should go to the neighborhood or Cao Xanh Don Wells.
6. Cake "nodding"
Baking nod to form the same way as rolls. When eating bread dipped in a special sauce bowl with a piece of stitched flesh (meat storage vessel) marinated thoroughly. Location Enjoy: Cake's most famous nodding in Tien Yen. However across the region of Quang Ninh can find nodded cakes delicious and unique.
8.Nem chua, nem chao in Quang Yen town
Nem materials are things affordable. Pork skin are small cell, made of bean or rice hearing roasted and roasted peanuts stamping, all mixed together so to. Simply, but through secret processing, mix and sauce maker, rustic restaurant gift becomes exotic, fascinating.
9. Ca Say Tien Yen
Coffee is drunk hybrid ducks geese and flavored with both hands and through processing Tien Yen person becomes doubly delicious. Tien Yen person making dried fish meat, processed sauce its specialized off-site recycling. A fragrant sauce in the sauce tastes Cai Rong, Van Yen, Cat Hai, the sweet taste of sassafras hot day with Guangxi pungency of ginger softened Tien Yen grown on home soil.
10. Alcohol soaked in Halong Bo
Wine is made from glutinous rice local specialty. No pounding sticky rice, cooked put into compost. When fermented and soaked to the point, people entered the ferment leaves soaked in the forest taken from Bo, after a time converted into alcohol, the wine is put into bottles grandchildren, jar to drink slowly, every meal a couple cup. When guests are brought to entertain the whole jar. Bo soaked rice wine are sour, slightly sweet, which stimulates digestion, refreshments very good, especially in summer.