Sun Wheel

This guide to the Sun Wheel in Ha Long explains how the ride's advertised 215-meter height comes not from a taller ring but from where it was built, on top of Ba Deo Hill, by the Japanese firm Sanoyas Hishino Meisho with German and Vietnamese partners. It follows the wheel's sixty-four cabins and the slow, unhurried rotation built to let the view unfold. At night watch for the LED lights that turn the wheel into a glowing halo over the city.