Bai Chay beach

This guide to Bai Chay beach in Ha Long follows two rival legends behind its name: a thirteenth-century admiral who set a Mongol supply fleet ablaze until the flames reached this shore, and fishermen who burned casuarina leaves here to fight off shipworm eating their boats' hulls. Either way, villagers kept watching fire flare up along this coast. Listen for the story while looking past the parasols toward the karsts offshore.