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Cua Van Village lies in a calm bay surrounded y a thousand green isles, about 30km away from Bai Chay Harbour, situated at Hung Thang Commune, Ha Long City. There are 4 fishing villages in the World Heritage site: Ba Hang, Cua Van, Vong Vieng and Cap La. Cua Van is the largest with a total of 287 households and 1,283 people who mainly earn their livelihood by fishing.

Lan Ha Bay is located to the east of Cat Ba Island .Its covers an area of more than 7,000 ha of which 5,400 ha is under the management of Cat Ba National Park.

Around 200 species of fish, 500 species of mollusc, 400 species of arthropod and numerous hard and soft coral live in Lan Ha Bay. Larger marine animals in the area include seals and three species of dolphin.

 

The Danang Cathedral is one of the most popular tourist spots with its distinctive pink architecture in Danang. It is known by the locals as the rooster Church because of the rooster on its weather vane. Another Catholic Church down the road sports a fish. It is close to the fish market so its parishners are fishermen.

Cao Dai (a.k.a. Dao Cao Dai or Caodaism) is a perfect combination of world religions such as Christianity, Buddhism , Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, Geniism, and Taoism. Đạo Cao Đài is the religion's shortened name, the full name is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (Great Religion of The Third Period of Revelation and Salvation).It officially established in the city of Tay Ninh, southern Vietnam, in 1926.

Bai Dinh Pagoda is famous for its great size and imposingness. Roughly 100 km South from Hanoi, near the city of Ninh Binh, reclining on a hill in Gia Vien commune alongside the Hoang Long River and the Trang An tourism area, reposes what will surely become Vietnam’s richest cultural mecca.

The Marble Mountain is located 10km South of Danang and consists of around five marble outcrops. The marble these days has been largely hollowed out and the marble used in stores at the base of the mountains is largely imported from China.

Vong Phu Mountain ( or the Mountain of the Woman who is waiting her husband) is located not far from Lang Son, quite close to the Sino-Vietnamese border . At the top of mountain is a rock bearing the shape of standing woman holding her children on her arms.

Phong Nha - Ke Bang is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at its 27th general assembly session being held in Paris from June 30-July 5 .It protects one of the world's two largest karst regions with several hundred caves and grottoes. Its name derives from Phong Nha cave, the most beautiful one, with numerous fascinating rock formations, and Ke Bang forest. The plateau is probably one of the finest and most distinctive examples of a complex karst landform in Southeast Asia.

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The Cai be floating market is held where the Tien Giang river forms the border between the provinces of Tien Giang, Vinh Long and Ben Tre

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Approximately 400 to 500 boats filled with fruits, vegetables, and other products are anchored along the banks of the river, from 5 am to 5 pm every day.

 

Hoa Lo prison museum Hanoi  located in number 1, Hoa Lo  street on the corner with  Hai Ba Trung street, is all that remains of the former Hoa Lo Prison, ironically nicknamed the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ by US POWs during the American War. Those incarcerated at Hoa Lo included Pete Peterson, who would later become the first US Ambassador to Vietnam following the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1995.

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