Lan Ha Bay
Karst islands and floating fishing villages beside a Stone Age settlement still lived in today.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lan Ha Bay opens with a 1972 excavation at Cai Beo, where archaeologists pulled stone tools, pottery fragments and blackened hearths from a fishing settlement thousands of years old. It follows the people who fished and cooked on this water in the aftermath of the last ice age, and traces how their descendants still work these same waters. Listen as your boat passes the floating houses near Cai Beo village.
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