Natural feature

Ti Top Island

Small limestone-karst island with a crescent beach and a steep summit climb over Ha Long Bay.

This guide to Ti Top Island in Ha Long Bay traces a name change: before 1962 fishermen called this outcrop Cemetery Island, after a French cargo wreck sank offshore in 1905. It follows the day a Soviet cosmonaut climbed to the summit alongside Ho Chi Minh during a state visit, and the reaction that made Ho Chi Minh rename the island on the spot. You'll pass the roughly four hundred steps worn smooth by six decades of visitors chasing the same climb.

Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.