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Indochina Sails's Blog – February 2012 Archive (4)

Sung Sot – one of most beautiful caves in the world

Sung Sot (Amazing) cave, one of the largest caves in Ha Long Bay, has been selected as one of the world’s ten most beautiful caves by the Association of Tourism Offices and Brokers in the Czech Republic.

According to the Association, Sung Sot cave is blessed with the natural beauty of stalactites and stalagmites that have created a…

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Added by Indochina Sails on February 22, 2012 at 3:16am — No Comments

Halong Bay – A Impressive Holiday Experience

Halong Bay is a very popular travel and leisure destination.

It’s location is in the Quang Ninh province of Vietnam and is also acknowledged as being a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is a body of ocean of roughly one thousand five hundred square kilometres in Northern Vietnam. It incorporates a 120 km’s of shoreline around the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf close to the border of China. The gulf is…

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Added by Indochina Sails on February 16, 2012 at 10:00pm — No Comments

The stunning Halong Bay

Luxury cruising through the stunning Halong Bay, swimming in turquoise waters, lazing on island beaches, kayaking through caves, cocktails on deck - for me anyway - and amazing 6 course meals.... such has been our lot for the last few days. It's a hard life!

As north Vietnam is our…

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Added by Indochina Sails on February 10, 2012 at 3:19am — No Comments

There be dragons – Halong Bay

The legend goes that the islands of Halong Bay were formed by dragons who spit out jade and jewels into the sea to help the Vietnamese build a barrier to defend against would be invaders. After attempts to conquer the area were thwarted, the dragons fell in love with the bay and took eternal residence there. One look at these giant, limestone karsts, and I couldn’t help but be overtaken with the sense that we were sailing among the…

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Added by Indochina Sails on February 5, 2012 at 10:44pm — No Comments