Ha Long Bay is located in Quàng Ninh province, Vietnam and it is one of the greatest and most recognisable travel destinations in the republic. Ha Long Bay is among the 33 most beautiful bays of the world.
Ha Long Bay was listed in the National Relics and Landscapes by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam in 1962. Since 1994 the bay has also been listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
It is historically proven that the bay has been inhabited for ten of thousands of years. The first ancient culture was that of the Soi Nhu Culture around 18,000-7,000 BC, followed by that of the Cái Bèo Culture 7,000-5,000 BC and the Ha Long Culture 3,500-5,000 years ago.
The Soi Nhu culture inhabited a coastal area and their main occupation was to catch shellfish, fish and to collect fruits as well as to dig for bulbs and roots.
The Cái Bèo Culture was located in Na Long and Cát Bà Island, mainly dealing with sea exploitation.
Representatives of the Ha Long Culture evolved the ability to saw, grind, drill, polish stones and also make pottery, grow fibric trees as well as the ability to twist threads for knitting nets, make fishing lines and build rafts for travelling on the sea.
Evidence of the activity of the Ha Long culture is the existed shouldered, stepped adzes, bisque ceramics and grooved gringding stones.
The Ha Long Bay is within an area of 1,553 km², covering a wide variety of limestone monolithic islands as well as a great number of lakes located inside them.
The Bay hosts 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species.
The Ha Long Bay limestone formations are one really amazing and unique piece of nature. Among the most popular formations on the Bay are: Hnag Dau Go (Wooden Stakes cave), Hang Bo Nau (Pelican cave), Hang Trinh Nu (the Virgin), Hang Sung Sot ( Cave of Awe), Dong Hang Hanh, Dao Tuan Chau (Sentinel Chau Island) and Qua Chuong ( the bell).
Ha Long Bay is home of about 1600 people who live on floating houses, subsisting mainly on the capture of fish and marine aquaculture.
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