Ha long bay

During her trip to Vietnam, Adora Svitak, 10, American literature prodigy, voted for Ha Long Bay as a world natural wonder Wednesday morning in HCM City. With a typing speed of 70 words per minute, the prodigy, who began to play with computers at the age of two, performed the online poll very fast and skillfully.  “I’m very happy to be invited to the poll. And I’m proud of contributing a little effort to help Ha Long Bay of Vietnam to become a world wonder,” she said.  Before the poll, the girl participated in various activities in HCM City , including visiting the Vietnam History Museum , signing her books in Vietnamese, attending a press conference, etc.   Adora Svitak is called “the world’s most intelligent child” by the US media. She began to write short stories on the computer at the age of 3.5 and she … [Read more...] about American child prodigy votes for Ha Long Bay

(Cinet) - As a huge and great treasure, Ha Long Bay is famous for many potential values and is also a research subject of such various scientific industries as oceanography, natural history, geology, culture, etc in such a long time. Ha Long Bay is known as a world wonder because of its unique values. Forming a strange structure of the nature In the Northeast of Vietnam, Ha Long Bay has thousands of up-and-down islands surrounding sparkling sapphire sea such as La Vong, Ga Choi, Con Coc, Phao Dai, etc. The harmonious combination of sculpture and painting, outline and color, cube and space wonderfully and splendidly makes Ha Long Bay become a strangle structure, strengthening man’s countless imagination. As studied, Ha Long Bay’s great and eternal beauty is shaped with three factors: Stone, water and sky. Nevertheless, it also has a diversified and plentiful cave & grotto network including Thien Cung, Sung Sot, Dau Go, etc. Indeed, all those things … [Read more...] about Ha Long Bay – Unique Values

National Geographic magazine has ranked Viet Nam's Ha Long Bay sixth in a list of the world's 10 best sailing cruises. The magazine describes Ha Long Bay as consisting of "strangely sculpted limestone islands and outcrops, dotted with small floating villages and deserted sandy beaches. In spring and early summer the water is particularly calm and clear. This UNESCO World Heritage site is best explored by a cruise on a junk." The list also included the Nova Scotia and Labrador Tall Ships cruise in Canada; US Washington state's San Juan Islands; a Pirate Cruise of the Grand Cayman Island; the Star Clipper to French Polynesia; a Junk Cruise in Andaman Sea, Thailand; the Seychelles Islands; a Dhow Cruise through the Strait of Hormuz, Oman; Lamu Island, Kenya and the Evia Island Cruise, Greece. Last month, the Lonely Planet magazine also introduced the Ha Long bay as one of the world's top ten best boat journeys.   Source: VNS … [Read more...] about Ha Long Bay ranks 6th in National Geographic cruise list

(Cinet)- Information from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism: Within the framework of Culture and Arts cooperation between Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Arts for the period of 2009 – 2011, from 24th to 30th October, in Phnom Penh and Preah Sihanouk of Cambodia Kingdom, many culture, arts activities including image popularization and voting for Ha Long Nay (Vietnam) to become world nature wonder.   The cooperation program shall have many activities to popularize Vietnam’s culture such as: Vietnam culture space exhibition, 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi fine arts, fold arts performance of Viet Bac folk song and dance theatre, etc. At the same time, this is also a good opportunity for Vietnam to promote the voting campaign for Ha Long Bay to be come a world nature wonder. … [Read more...] about Image popularization and voting for Ha Long Bay in Cambodia