Natural feature
Ti Top Island
Small limestone-karst island with a crescent beach and a steep summit climb over Ha Long Bay.
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Location
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About this audio guide
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.
This audio guide was created using AI.