The most beautiful tourist destinations in the world ( part 5 )

Halong Bay in Vietnam: Panel exquisite lasted 500 million years!

May seem a legendary panel of Legends thousand and one nights, but imagine that this magnificent painting is a true picture of a charming places on the planet who does not know?

These spectacular rocky islands are only a portion of the thousands of small islands located in the "Halong Bay" in Vietnam. And you will learn that it is today through this journey comic:

This amazing place is located in the province of Quang Ninh in the north-east of Vietnam, and extends over an area of ​​1,553 square kilometers to 1,960 houses a small island!

Interestingly, that these islands are not distributed on Halong Bay regularly, but 775 of them are concentrated in the central Gulf (an area of ​​only 334 square kilometers), what gave this charming scenes that we see.

As for the reason for the existence of these rocks in this form it may surprisingly explanations, let's start Boktherhma worse:

Tells the locals that he and thousands of years ago when he made the Chinese to occupy Vietnam, the Emperor of Vietnam Gad send a dragon to help the Vietnamese on the face of the Chinese, he took this dragon jet thousands of pearls (carried tally of the fire apparently!) Which turned into rocks to prevent the Chinese from progress !

The second explanation is the scientific explanation which says that these islands are the result of a scientific phenomenon called karst phenomenon, where the limestone areas turned to this form as a result of exposure to the effects of different geological over 500 million years! (I think the theory Dragon easier ).

Interesting thing is that there are many of these islands are hollow inside! So have a network caves make it a wonderful tourist places!

Lies not discriminate Halong Bay in these islands only majestic, but Halong Bay is home for 14 types of flowers, and 60 kinds of animals!

So the result of all this excellence geographical and bio-UNESCO has put Halong Bay on the World Heritage List.

This area has the atmosphere of a tropical sea Badie, and temperature ranges of between 15-25 degrees Celsius, so it became more of Halong Bay tourist attraction places in the world.

You can learn more about Halong Bay through: Halong Bay | Wikipedia (in English)

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