Co To island and beaches

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Co To Island is about 3 hours by boat from Cai Rong Town , Van Don Island District, 150km from Halong City . The Quang Ninh province’s tourism sector has surveyed potential to develop tourism on the island, especially eco-tourism. Co To Island includes 40 large and small islands, of which the three largest are large Co To, Thanh Lam and Tran.

Co To island in Halong Bay Tours

Co To Sea is beautiful both day and night, sunrise and sunset, bright moon and dim moon. Beaches in the large Co To Island are deserted and not polluted by modern industrial society. Trinh Sat Beach is typical with white sands and blue water as clear as crystal.

The forest is also appropriate for ecotourism tours. You can walk or catch “xe om” (motorbike taxi) to visit a lighthouse o­n a high hill. It’s about 10 minutes by “xe om” from centre of island to the foot of hill, and then you’d better walk along a path to the lighthouse. This path is about 1km and lies among pine tree forest together with thousands of violet wild flowers. The light house is o­n the highest peak of the CoTo island, 70 metres above sea level.

Large Co To Island has an abundance of seafood such as shrimp, cuttle fish…, price is very cheap. You can bring gas cooker and cook your own meal or hire a native to cook.

From large Co To Island, hiring a boat to the islands around, you will discover things such as kinds of water sports: snorkeling, fish stabbing… on Thanh Lan Island, oranges are a special harvested fruit. During harvest time, the island turns a splendid orange-yellow colour.

Charming landscape with fresh air make Co To become an attractive place for visitors who are keen on exploring.

Soi Sim Islet in Halong Bay Vietnam

Soi Sim is an soil island 400 m away from Ti Tốp Island, and 7-8 km from the Bãi Cháy Tourist Wharf. In the island there are many ancient trees. The Hạ Long Bay Management Board is going to build a system of guesthouses equipped with modern facilities.

Soi Sim islet in paradise cruises

Soi Sim Island located in the southwest area of World Heritage Halong Bay by Bai Chay tourist pier about 11km.With an area of ​​8.7 ha, the island has special geological structure with two-thirds covered by soil and soilweathering feralit quiz. Island has two beautiful beaches and scenic points covering the World Heritage area inthe southeast and northwest.
Formerly the local people found a lot of forest trees growing on the island of Sim - a shrub with purple fruit, sothe island was called Soi Sim. With a rich ecosystem and in the heart of the heritage area, at present, Soi SimIsland is the place to attract tourists to sightseeing, swimming, tourism on Ha Long Bay.

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In the future Soi Sim island will be developed into one of the eco-tourism center with a system of small wooden houses, garden plant and animal conservation, scenic floor system and resort attractions in the areaheritage center.
Especially the island is home to beautiful beaches where blue water is great for visitors boating and swimming

Monkey island Beach 1

Come to Monkey Island Resort, you will have a wonderful time staying in bungalows, enjoy the fresh air of the ocean, enjoy swimming at the private beach, do kayaking in the bay, swimming, playing football, volleyball or billiard….or you can climb up the mountain for the spectacular view of Lan Ha bay.

Monkey at Monkey Island mountain – Halong Bay Tours

Monkey Island Resort has 15 rooms which are equiped very comfortable for your stay with quality beddings, air conditioner, and private bath room – hot shower. Especialy, your room has view to the sea and you can enjoy some drinks seating at the coridor infront.
Monkey Restaurant stays next to the beach and infront of the beautiful garden where you can enjoy Vietnamese food or Western food. You can seat here for drinking, waiting for the sunset in the afternoon or watch thousands of stars in the evening.

Monkey island Beach 1

Monkey Island must be one of the best place for travellers those want to enjoy many activities, love the private beach…on the tour to Halong bay – Cat Ba island.

Monkey Island in Halong Bay

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Monkey Island stay in the area of Nam Cat, Lan Ha bay. There are 5 sandy beach here and Monkey Island beach is the most beautiful and the biggest one. From Cat Ba town, you have to take a taxi or motobike to Beo harbour where you go by boat to Monkey Island. It takes you about 15 minutes, throught the floating village and many beautiful islets with sea birds flying in group up and down.

Monkey Island in Halong Bay Travel

In the past, this island was called Cat Dua island ( Pine Apple Sand Beach island) because there is a lot of pine apple trees on the sandy beach. In recent years, there are many tourists come and they found many monkeys on the island then this is called Monkey Island beside the name Cat Dua.

Monkey island is about 5 km round with the front side are 2 sandy beaches and the back side is like rocky mountain. The beaches here are very beautiful with pine apple trees on the beach and many kind of green trees on the mountain.

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There are about 20 monkeys on the island. They live on the mountain, in the garden and some time go to the beach for foods given by the tourist. Coming here, you also can enjoy the song of the birds in the garden or see many fishes swimming in the clean water.

Monkey Island is an ideal place for tourist holiday with many activities like play football, volley ball on beach, swimming, snockeling or go fishing. Especially, you can do kayaking around as the water here is calm like in a lake with hundreds of islets around.

Oan islet in paradise cruises

Situated 300 m away from Bài Thơ Mountain and 5 km from the Bãi Cháy Tourist Wharf, a 22-meter islet stands out in Bái Tử Long Bay.

Oan islet in Halong Bay Vietnam

It has the shape of truncated sticky rice, which serves as an offering to Buddha. French tourists pay special attention to this rock as in 1992; a French famous actress came there to film some shots of the film Indochina.

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In the island, some settings are still preserved including the stone-paved road to the beach (often called the Slave Pier), the prisons, etc.

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On the way to Ti Tốp Island, visitors see a stone rock resembling a thump jutting out of the sea.

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Nature has put the Ngón Tay (Finger) Islet here as a reminder of many interesting extras in the discovery of Hạ Long.

Mat Quy Islet on Paradise Cruises

Boating past the Ấm Islet some 20 minutes, we see Mặt Quỷ Islet or Monster Head Islet, which protrudes about 30-35 m from the waters of Bái Tử Long Bay.

Mặt Quỷ islet on paradise cruises

Nature has carved the rock in the shape of a monster head, with a rough big nose standing out from a distorted face. From whatever angle, one still find it horrible

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Dua Islet in Halong Bay Vietnam

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In Bái Tử Long Bay, some 7 km east of Bài Thơ (Poem) Mountain stands a stone islet, which resembles a huge magic wand in Andersen’s fairy tales. It clarifies the geological and geomorphologic significance of Hạ Long Bay. Đũa Islet serves as an interesting tourist site and a “lighthouse” for seagoing boats

Dau Nguoi Islet in Halong Bay Vietnam

From a far, you can see a 25-meter islet, which reminds us of a huge Egyptian head with a big nose. Its chin lies close to the sea surface. Many people associate it with the image of the Egyptian Sphinx.

Dau Nguoi Islet in paradise cruises

The Dau Nguoi Islet in Ha Long Bay, a masterpiece of nature, has its own poetic beauty as it lies amidst seawaters. The islet lies near Luồn Cave, 13 km away from the tourist wharf.

Dinh Huong Islet in Halong Bay Travel

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In the itinerary of Thiên Cung – Ðầu Gỗ – Ti Tốp, one finds Ðỉnh Hương Islet or Lư Hương (Incense Burner Islet) to the southwest of Ðầu Gỗ Island.

Dinh Huong islet in Halong Bay Travel

Passing the Chó Ðá (Stone Dog) Islet and the Con Mèo (Cat) Islet, one sees an imposing stone slab resting on two other small stones stands blocked the way. The stone slab resembles a huge incense burner, which lies in the middle of the sea as a holy object to worship the Sky and Earth.

Con Coc Islet – Paradise Cruises

Con Cóc or Toad Islet is one of the most exquisite works nature has presented Hạ Long. Just imagine, an 8-meter-tall toad sitting to wait for rain amidst the vastness of the sea.

Con Cóc islet in Halong bay Vietnam

The Toad Islet lies in the southeast of Hạ Long Bay, 17 km away from the tourist boat wharf.

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But islet – wonders of nature

Some 30-minute boating away from the Con Cóc Islet, on the way to the Ba Trái Ðào (Three Peaches) Island, visitors see a pen bobbing (Bút Islet) in the seawaters. This constitutes a monument of knowledge Mother Dragon wanted to pass down to the present-day generations.

But Islet in Halong Bay tours

Lying adjacent to the Pen Islet is a small attractive beach. Tourists can anchor there to take a bath.

Xep And Yen Ngua Islets in Halong Bay Tours

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Xếp Islet or Layer Islet is a huge, multi-layered, square piece of stone which looks like an Egyptian pyramid built in the middle of the Bái Tử Long Bay, Cẩm Phả District.

Xếp islet in Halong bay travel

The Yên Ngựa or Saddle Islet lies in Hạ Long Bay, in the centre of the World Heritage Area. Nature has creatively shaped two pieces of stone, one high and one lower, which are linked together to form an imposing rock, looking like a saddle. Boats can go through underneath.

Yên Ngựa Islet in Paradise Cruises

The whole rock resembles a sewing machine. How wonderful to have such a magnificent but elegant “saddle”, jutting some 10 m above the sea surface.

Ấm and Ba Trái Đào Islets – Paradise Cruises

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On the route to Quan Lan – Ngọc Vừng islands; Ấm Rock or Kettle Islet is situated in Bái Tử Long Bay. An island jutting out of the seawaters, the teapot of the Jade Emperor, who accidentally dropped it into Hạ Long so, its handle was broken.

Ấm islet in Halong bay Vietnam

This island consists of three small mountains with the height of 23 m, seen from afar, resemble three peaches (Ba Trái Đào).

The island connects to a legend of about the romantic love between a youngest fairy who was very pretty with a young and poor fisherman. Because of feeling in love with him, she stole three peaches from Heaven for him, that if he ate, would give him eternal life, allowing them to live together forever. The King of the Heavens discovered the robbery and turned the peaches into three stone islands. Chastised, the young fairy had to return.

Ba trái đào islet – Paradise Cruises

Today, Ba Trái Ðào is a famous tourist attraction with three nice fairy beaches, romantic landscape. It is 22 km from south north of Bãi Cháy Tourist Wharf.

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Rều Island in Halong Bay Vietnam – One of seven wonders of the world with 1600 islands…

Rều Island in Halong bay Vietnam

Rều Island lies just 500 m from the tourist boats wharf. The Hoàng Gia International Joint Venture is implementing a project to turn the island into a resort complex with many kinds of services. At present, the island has a lot species of animals, including many rare ones.

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Rều Island is fast changing into an interesting holiday resort.

Ti Top Island – Halong Bay Vietnam

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Ti Top island – Halong Bay Vietnam

Situated about 7-8 km south-east of Bãi Cháy lies the small Ti Tốp Island. It displays a beach shaped like a crescent moon, and sand that has been washed to a snowy white by the tide. On 22 November 1962, this tiny island had the honour of receiving a visit from astronaut Ghermann Ti Tốp, a hero of the former Soviet Union, accompanied by Hồ Chí Minh. To perpetuate the remembrance of their visit, Uncle Hồ named the place Ti Tốp Island. It has now become an attractive beach for tourists and has various of tourist services.

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Thirty-five years afterwards, on 27 June 1997, Ti Tốp returned to the island having his name. Deeply moved, he wrote in the souvenir book of the Management Board of Hạ Long Bay: “My deepest thanks to destiny, which has allowed me to come back to this tiny island.” It has become a beach attracting many visitors.

Ngoc Vung Island - Paradise Cruise Halong Bay

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Ngọc Vừng, or Gem Island, is a pretty site sitting between the Nét Islet and Phượng Hoàng (Phoenix) Island, in the Vân Ðồn District. From above, Ngọc Vừng looks like a beautiful velvet handkerchief with exquisite white edgings; it seems to float on the water surface. On the east side of the island there is a kilometres-beach with pure white sand. At the centre is a luxuriant benjamin fig tree; it was under this tree that Hồ Chí Minh stood and conversed with the population in 1962 during a visit.

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Formerly, under the feudal dynasties, this island zone contained a great quantity of rare and precious species of mother-of-pearls. At night, fluorescent pearls would light up the whole region. So there are several islands having name “Ngọc” such as Ngọc Vừng (dazzling pearl), Minh Châu (Ngọc Châu)…

During the war against the US, the island belonged to a front of outward islands that served as protection for the eastern waterways.

It is also on the beach that many stone artefacts were discovered in 1937, opening a string of excavations and archaeological research aiming at providing some explanations of the mysteries of the ancient Hạ Long culture.

Dau Be Island - Halong Bay Vietnam

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On the south-east side of Hạ Long Bay, Ðầu Bê Island is 500 m from Hang Trai Island to the east, and 28 km from the Bãi Cháy Tourist Wharf, in an archipelago comprised between the Trà Ngư and Ðá Lẻ islands outside Hạ Long Bay (seaport of Lan Hạ Bay).

Dau Be Island - Halong Bay Tours

It has an area of 22,863 sq. m, and its highest peak reaches 139 m. When speaking of the island, it is impossible not mention to Ba Hâm Lake, a famous spot which people had known long time ago.