Travel to Cat Ba Island by Cruise (3 Days Itinerary)

Different from Ha Long Bay, all large and small islands on Lan Ha Bay are covered fully by green trees or vegetation.
 

A private cave in Lan Ha Bay that you can explore by going kayak DIY
 

The density of limestone Mountains here are quite thick and still wild. They divide sea’s face into small bays, in which many bays or caves have been not explored yet. Hundreds of mountains with various appearance depending on tourists’ imagination such as Guoc islet (looks like high heels), Doi islet (looks like a bat). Lan Ha Bay also has lots of stalactite caves as: Ham Rong, Do Cung, Ca cave. There are 139 small, nice and pure sand beaches here. Many sand beaches which stretch between two rocky massifs, are quiet and no big waves, they are ideal bath sand beaches.
 

Bright and Dark Cave is one of the most interesting and wonderful area to go kayaking
 

Under clear blue water are the colorful coral reefs as Van Boi beach, Van Ha beach…. The serene areas like Sen Island, Cu Island and Monkey island are the best places for tourists to quietly contemplate coral. Travelers can use small boats to wriggle through creeks for sightseeing in small bays and caves. Then you can take a rest on among sea beaches such as: Vem beach, Tung Gau cave, Cat Dua beach, etc. Cat Dua beach is also called Monkey island, because people raise a lot of monkeys here. Under sea face is a developed pearl farming establishment as well as an attractive destination for tourists.
 

Cat Dua Island in Lan Ha Bay is used to raise monkey
 

Arriving Lan Ha Bay, you should not miss visiting Rua Giong Island. This island has 2 fronts’ face with long sandy beach and many decades years old of pineapples bushes. Rua Giong Island is surrounded by mountains creating a closed water pool. The water recedes in the early morning, you can also easily catch sea cucumbers - precious type of sea specialty in this area.
 

Romantic space of Lan Ha Bay is born from small and peaceful fishing villages here. Looming among many island groups are the aquaculture growing villages for regional specialties like green mussel, snout otter, cobia, crab, abalone, fish... Some of them supply fresh fish and shrimp according to daily culinary needs of tourists.
 

Viet Ha fishing village is one of similar destinations to explore the rural sea-life.
 

Bay ecotourism recently is focused on investment. Only taking 5 mins to travel from Beo wharf toward the North to reach Cat Dua Island with many tourism services are being exploited. This tourism form is attracting a lot of foreign tourists to arrive for resting. Coming to Lan Ha Bay, tourists should go through Cat Ba National Forest where precious species of white-headed langur are living and large podocarpus fleuryi forest is being raised.
Overcoming Ngu Lam peak at the end of journey is Viet Hai fishing village, the most pristine village of Cat Ba Island. Tourists can experience many interesting things which are featured for Tokin fishing village in here. With its potentials, Lan Ha Bay is developing forest-sea-island ecotourism form to serve domestic and international tourists. 

Cat Ba Island is located on Ha Long Bay to the South, offshore Hai Phong city and Quang Ninh province, far from the center of Hai Phong city about 30 kilometers and far from Ha Long City about 25 kilometers. Administratively, this archipelago is belonged to Cat Hai District, Hai Phong City. It was recognized by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve zone in the world. The infrastructure is quite developed with complex of many hotels, motels, resorts, temples and especially Hai Phong City already deployed wifi transceiver station on the whole island.

Scenic places of Cat Ba Island were recognized as special national relic. This is the worship of historical, cultural, scientific value and honor for precious beauty of Cat Ba Island. At the same time, it has practical significance for this archipelago as soon as possibly recognized as World Natural Heritage by UNESCO. Cat Ba National Park is the SUF (special use forests) of Vietnam, the world's biosphere reserve zone. Cat Ba National Park is situated in Cat Hai District, Hai Phong City.
 

 

Cat Ba National Park is the world's biosphere reserve zone in Cat Ba. It is a special national park with a combination of many different ecosystems: evergreen forests on limestone mountains, flooded forests on high mountains (Frog Pond), coastal mangrove forests, sea with inshore reefs, caves system with distinct characteristics (habitat of the Bat) and farming system located between the valley as Khe Sau or residential areas. Cat Ba National Park is one of the key conservation of Cat Ba.

The plants’ ingredients include 741 different species, many precious types of trees such as: trai ly, lat hoa, lim xet, de hoa, kim giao, go trang, cho dai…in the world only Himalayas has, 23 mangrove plant species, 75 seaweed species, 199 phytoplankton species.

With high biodiversity, Cat Ba Island was officially recognized by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve zone in the world in the meeting of International Council about coordination program between biosphere and human held in Paris on 29/10/2004. Cat Ba archipelago is recognized by UNESCO as biosphere reserve is a great thing for Cat Ba. It is a motivation to force economic, tourism development and promote aquaculture farming, aquaculture fishing, seafood scientific research.
 

The Monkey Island in Cat Ba National Park

Cat Ba is not only the largest biosphere reserve zone in the world but also includes many beautiful and pure bays as Lan Ha Bay and hundreds of bays similar to a fascinating marine park, wilderness scenic like: ao Ech (Frog Pond), vung Le (Le bay), vung Tung Gau (Tung gau bay)…In which, “vung Tung Gau” goes deeply into the island to 7,5 kilometers, entrance is about 400 meters wide, medium depth is from 4 to 5 meters with many rare marine resources. This is an ideal place for tourists to Cat Ba to take bathe with clear blue water and white sand beach formed from tiny fragments of coral. Because of biodiversity, many tourists annually arrive Cat Ba to visit. Most of tourists travel to Cat Ba in 2 days 1 night to be able to fully enjoy the beautiful scenery as well as entertainment destinations in Cat Ba.