Hạ Long Bay
Emerald bay of nearly two thousand limestone karst islands and caves rising from the Gulf of Tonkin.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hạ Long Bay in Ha Long opens with an old story of enemies coming by sea, and the mother dragon and her children the gods sent down to meet them. It then sets the legend beside the geologists' version of how these islands came to be, and the two separate occasions UNESCO listed the bay. Best heard from the water, with the grey towers in view.
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