Cat Ba is also known as a pearl island at the average height of 70m above sea level, about 25km from Hai Phong city. In the island, there are an east-southern town and six communes. Cat Ba is crowded with the locals and tourists when festivals take place noisily and exiting to celebrate a new travel season in the beginning of April.
Amongst 1,969 islands in Ha Long Bay, Cat Ba is the largest one in which Cat Ba national park covers approximately half of its area. In many years, this park is the attractive destination of numerous domestic and international tourists, especially who love adventure. It has 4,500 hectares of primary forest mixed by board-leaved forest and coniferous one developing in limestone karsts. The park includes many endangered animals and plants, so this is various gene reserve area.
The unique of park is up to 22 species recorded in Vietnam Red Book and 6 species in World Red Book. Among them, Cat Ba national park has the white head langur. It is said that Cat Ba is home this specie. Taking a tour to Cat Ba national park brings tourist strange feelings.
From Cat Ba town, about several dozen minutes on large road to the park, travelers can enjoy the fresh air and the natural beauty around here.
The first stop of tourists is the place to introduce the highlight and characteristic of the park. This is also place to keep many photos and samples of park in times of search and survey. But it is not all about this park because coming to Cat Ba forest, the most interesting thing is discovering it by yourselves. It is not easy to travel all parts of forest on foot because its area is very large. However, with over 10km going through the forest, tourists will explore many exciting things which nature bestows Cat Ba forest when they enjoy old trees, lakes in mountain, if more luckily, visitors will see white head langurs and the unique caves.
Not only having forests, Cat Ba but also attracts many tourists by its fresh and blue beaches. Travelers can see small fishes under clean water when they choose to travel on cruise. Cat Ba beach has many small cruises to help tourists travel on the sea. Marine tourism service is very good, travelers only need to info for the hotel where they live, and after that there will have a cruise to take them to travel. Besides, Cat Ba is famous for Lan Ha Bay belonging to Ha Long Bay. If traveling on Lan Ha Bay to enjoy scenery of mountain and sea, that will bring tourists many interesting experiences.
It takes tourists 20 minutes to come to monkey island. In recent years, monkeys have brought here to live with nature but they are very friendly with the locals and tourists. In fact, its name is Cat Dua, one island on Lan Ha Bay. This island is an ideal destination for traveling and swimming. Not only Cat Dua, the cruise will take you to many other islands on the sea. The special thing at Cat Ba beach is a lot of small beaches around the foot of islands. It is considered as a prominent advantage of Cat Ba travel.
There are such many islands on the bay that they cannot name for all but they always give great impression in tourist’s heart. It takes all day to travel all around the bay but each destination here brings travelers strange feelings. Therefore, Lan Ha Bay is always the most attractive one with the domestic and international tourists.
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