How and where is Cat Ba island?
Cat Ba National Park, about 200 km2 large, and
Lan Ha Bay are under management of Hai Phong city. Cat Ba National Park was established
in 1986 by Government. It is about 30 miles from Hai Phong city, isolated by
the sea.
The Park mainly consists of limestone mountains with
grottoes, caves, and mini beaches with soft sand. The average height of
mountains are from 50 – 200 meter in which the highest peak is 322m. Some caves
on the island used to be home to pre-historic men dated back 6000- 7000 years
such as Trung Trang cave.
The Park and surrounded islets are characterized by lovely
natural scenery and abundant fauna and flora as well as sea resources. There
are 620 species of plants, 32 species of mammals, 69 species of birds, and 20
species of reptiles and amphibians in the park. Especially there are endangered
white headed Vooc, or a kind of monkey, listed in world natural red book.
Why come to and tour
on Cat Ba island?
Cat Ba was recognized as World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.
Lan Ha Bay covers the area of 7000 hectares, of which over
5400 hectares is managed by Cat Ba National Park. The Bay consists of
approximately 400 limestone islets that create very gulf shaped bay. The area
also divided into other small bays, lagoons. There are grottoes, caves with
nice stalagmites and stalactites falling down. The bay is quite and also dotted
by over hundred mini soft sand beaches
Tourism and
activities in Cat Ba National Park and Lan Ha Bay?
You can chose some meaningful activities when spending
couple of days here such as swimming, kayaking, cruising around by wooden junk,
cycling, trekking. There are many luxury cruises with comfortable accommodation
arrange 2- 3 day tours in the area.
Vietindo Travel and Halong Bay cruise trip
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