Halong Bay In Vietnam
The 3,000 islets of limestone and dolomite in the Vietnamese Halong Bay are spread over 1,500 square kilometers of the gulf of Tolkin, not far from the border with China.
It is one of those places where it is difficult to take a bad photo. Even in the seasons in which the tourists invade. The sunsets are particularly spectacular, with the light bouncing on the rocks that emerge as torres of greenish water. The coves remote, vegetation vertical and the cool caves completes the landscape.
The legend says it was a dragon that formed with their palpitations this landscape of rocks of basis fragile. That is why the bay is called “has long”, which comes to mean car “dragon descending”. Geologists, less epic, they believe that the capricious karts formations all prayed makes some 300 million years ago. Read the rest of this entry »






