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Top 10 Famous Destinations in Hai Phong - Explore Real Asia
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Top 10 Famous Destinations in Hai Phong - Explore Real Asia
April 26, 2021
Hai Phong, also known as Red Flower City, is the largest port city in the North. Being a major tourist center, Hai Phong has surrounding beaches, famous resorts and entertainment at home and abroad that meet international standards.
Location: Do Son Beach is located in Do Son District, Hai Phong City.
Features: Do Son is a famous resort and sea bathing in the North.
Do Son beach is divided into 3 zones, each with beaches and hills, quiet forests. Zone 1 runs long with beaches and coastal services. Zone 2 has a villa that used to be the resting place of King Bao Dai, the last king of the Nguyen Dynasty. Area 3 has a small architecture resembling a temple, so it has long been called Pagodon. Especially at the end of the peninsula is a high hill on which the Van Hoa Building was built in a very beautiful architectural architecture.
Service works of international standards such as No number pier, Hon Dau Resort, Casino Do Son ..
Built on top of Ngoc Son, Hai Phong, Tuong Long tower looks like a pen drawing on the blue sky and the wide sea is an endless natural research station. Through ancient bibliographies and the remaining vestiges, Tuong Long tower is almost a monumental monument commemorating the Buddha, a pre-emptive observation post and the king's palace in the northeastern sea of Dai Viet country.
Standing at the position of Tu Long tower, you will admire the entire Do Son sea, as well as the village with the idyllic life of the people here, you will have an incredible sense of peace.
From the mainland or Do Son in Hai Phong, tourists can travel by boat or by highway to visit the island of Cat Ba. There is the National Park of Cat Ba, Cat Ba Archipelago. This place is adjacent to HaLong Bay with hundreds of large and small floating islands. in the middle of the ocean.
Cat Ba big island has a national park with pristine tropical forest that preserves many kinds of forest trees and rare animals; The limestone mountains hide many interesting caves; natural beaches, clear blue sea water and calm sea water lying in rocky islands; Streams flow on the slopes, Cat Ba converges between forests and the sea. Sea and forest blend together to create a unique landscape.
Ben Nghien is located in the charming landscape of water, behind the mountain in the Cuu Long strip, in front is the beach area 2 overlooking the seaport "Ba Lo", where in the 11th century, King Ly Thanh Tong used to travel. close to protect the realm, then built Tuong Long tower, located in Van Huong ward, Do Son district, Hai Phong city.
Currently, Ben Nghien is a tourist pier that brings tourists from the mainland to visit Hon Dau, Cat Ba, Ha Long Bay. Every day, especially during the festival of Dau Island and the tourist season, thousands of people visit and get off the boat to Dau Island and to the surrounding areas. This is an opportunity for each city citizen, domestic and foreign tourists to better understand this historic place, contributing to propaganda and preservation of the relic.
The bay is in the East of Cat Ba Island, overlooking the Van estuary, adjacent to HaLong Bay. The bay is over 7000ha wide, of which 5400ha is the area under the management of Cat Ba National Park.
The scenery here is as beautiful as HaLong Bay, not only that, but also has its own unique features. The density of limestone mountains here is quite thick, still very untouched, dividing the sea surface into small bays. Many villages, bays, and caves have not been discovered. There are hundreds of mountains with many shapes depending on the imagination of visitors such as Hon Guoc (like clogs), Hon Doi (like a bat spreading wings) …
By small boat, tourists can sneak through the ravine for sightseeing, the cove to visit the caves, rest on the beaches in the middle of the sea such as Oc Vem, Tung Bear cave, Cat Dua beach. Cat Dua beach now houses monkeys for visitors and has motels for overnight guests. In particular, visitors can visit the growing pearl farms here.
The specialties here are green mussels, mussels, cobia, crabs, and crabs ... Many raft houses on the bay are both a place to visit and a place to provide fresh fish and shrimp according to the daily culinary needs of customers.
Only a few tourists come to Hai Phong know a small egg-shaped island, an area of 1 km2, blue as a pearl, charming wild, only about 0.5 nautical miles from Do Son. It is Dau Island, where there is a lighthouse that lasts over a hundred years.
To get here, visitors have to go by boat at Nghien wharf. After 10 minutes of vessel run, a beautiful natural scenery appeared before my eyes. White pebbles surround the base of the island as inviting, leading visitors to primeval forests with thousands of different species. Many trees, banyan trees, about several centuries old. The roots hang down, and mushrooms overflow on the carpet. Sometimes you can see the clouds rolled across the bamboo bushes …
Just a tiny dot on the East Sea chart, but Dau Island promises to be a great destination for Vietnam's marine ecotourism.
Elephant Mountain - Xuan Son is a complex of rocky mountains, highland mountains, alternating, undulating, meandering through the territory of 3 communes Truong Thanh, An Tien and An Thang of An Lao district, Hai Phong city.
Elephant Mountain has many beautiful caves: Thong Voi cave, Chieng cave, Ca Chep cave, Be cave ... South of Voi mountain, there is Nam Tao cave, North of Dau cave. In the cave there are many stalactites, stalagmites with many strange shapes such as dragon fighting, tiger dress, elephant head ... On the top of Elephant mountain, there is a relatively flat land called the chess board of the realms.
Not only interesting with the amazing beauty of the natural scenery, Elephant Mountain also arouses curiosity for those who love to explore because it is the cradle of prehistoric and prehistoric people. Elephant Mountain has been declared as an archaeological relic by French archaeologists with many relics that existed about 3000 years ago such as: stone ax, stone rock, stone weight, stone grinding table; or bronze weapons such as: bronze spear, bronze dagger …
Bao Dai Villa on Vung Hill, Zone 2 Do Son is not simply an architectural work but also preserves stories about Bao Dai - a king of the Nguyen Dynasty.
Governor General of Indochina Pafquiere built this villa in 1928, with an octagonal shape according to French architecture. After that, the Governor-General of Indochina presented King Bao Dai and this house was called Bao Dai villa. The entire campus is 3,700m2, the villa area is nearly 1,000m2, located on the top of Vung hill, 36m high above sea level. From mid-1999, the villa opened to welcome visitors overnight. The villa has a living room, meeting room, bedrooms for the king, queen, princes and princesses. In particular, Bao Dai's documents and his family's photos. The villa has a winding road, the four sides are full of green trees, flowers, and birds. Here, visitors can relax in cool space from the sea breeze mixed with trees to create rustling sounds.
At the meeting, the organizers said: UNESCO officially recognized the Cat Ba archipelago as a world biosphere reserve during the meeting of the international council on the coordination of human and biosphere programs held on October 29, 2004 in Paris.
On the main island there is a lush green tropical forest all year round. This is a primeval forest and one of the largest national parks in the country. The protected area is 15,200 ha, including 9,800 ha and 4,200 ha of sea. Cat Ba forest was herNg recognized as a national park from May 23, 1993.
The fauna has up to 20 species of mammals, 69 species of birds, 20 species of reptiles and amphibians. The rare species of mammals are the white-headed langur, which live on the rocky cliffs; Yellow-feathered monkeys, chamois and many beautiful birds such as sand lumps, kingfishers, honey-suckers, ax heads. In Cat Ba, swiftlets and sea turtles are well taken care of. The flora in the temporary list has 495 genera, 149 families, of which 250 species of medicinal plants. Many trees need to be preserved such as sausages, mussels, paved flowers, kim Giao and Bac Son palm.
Dinh Ngoc Xuyen was built in the late 17th century, early 18th century, worshiping the god of deprivation. The old communal house had 9 roofs, made of cajuput wood, fragrant cinnamon, tiled roofs, designed in the imperial style. In 1929, the communal house was rebuilt according to the Dinh typeface-style architecture with 5 Dai Bai pavilions and 3 harem spaces according to the architectural art of Nguyen dynasty. This is the only old house of Do Son General remaining to this day.
Dinh Ngoc Xuyen belongs to the relics of Dinh Ngoc Xuyen - Suoi Rong - Tuong Long Tower, this is a place you should also visit when traveling in Do Son, Hai Phong.
