Halong Bay
Halong Bay
Halong Bay is located in the Gulf of Tonkin, northwest of Vietnam. It is a natural setting of a unique beauty, a quiet place that seems drawn from a magical tale.
The bay extends along 120 kilometers of coast and on its surface there are 2,000 islets of different sizes covered with vegetation. According to a legend, Halong Bay was created by sacred dragons. Dragons came from heaven to protect the Vietnamese from invasion. But they did not cast fire through the mouth, but giant pieces. The jade fragments became islands and the rival could not advance.
The version of geologists is very different. According to scientists, the process that gave rise to the bay began 240 million years ago, when this corner of the world was a mild sea of shallow depth. The skeletons of corals, molluscs and fish that lived in that sea were forming accumulations of calcite, the calcite being the base of the limestone that constitutes the structure of the islets. Subsequent tectonic movements began to bend these deposits, collect them above the water surface and break them. Over time, the sea and rain shaped these lands to their present appearance. From the outside, the islets seem massive, but from the inside, due to the erosion of the water, they are fully perforated.
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