Ha Long Bay

At the 18th Session of the UNESCO's Council of World Heritage held on 17 December 1994 in Thailand, Ha Long Bay was officially recognized as one of the World's Natural Heritages.

This title confers formal international recognition on this site. In 2000, UNESCO recognized Ha Long Bay as the World Heritage for the second time for its geological and geomorphologic values.

Situated in the North East of Vietnam as a part of the Tonkin Gulf, Ha Long Bay covers a total area of 1,553 km2 with 1,969 islands of various sizes tectonically aged 250 to 280 million years. This site is strewn with stone islands and famous for its grottoes. Ha Long Bay looks like a huge vivid painting that embraces stone islands and breath-taking caves such as Thien Cung, Dau Go, Sung Sot, and Tam Cung, etc.

Also a site of great biodiversity, Ha Long Bay boasts such typical eco-systems as mangroves, corals, lagoons and tropical forests, and thousands of various animals and plants, including rare species that exist nowhere else.

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